Assignments for 2000
May June July August September October November
Bring a syllabus or a list of objectives for a course on which you want to work.
November 1
Prepare one transparency with a description of your classroom research project for this fall. Include the purpose of the study and the methods, CATs, etc. that will be employed. Please also make 20 copies of your transparency for attendees. Be prepared to give a 5 minute presentation on your research plans.
Be prepared to discuss Cross and Steadman's book on classroom research.The following questions will be addressed:
1. What is the most interesting thing you read or learned from this book?
2. What is one thing that you are actively applying?
3. Is there anything with which you disagreed and why?
Source: Cross, K. P. and Steadman, M. H. (1996) Classroom Research: Implementing the Scholarship of Teaching. San Francisco, CA. Jossey-Bass.
October 4
Prepare one transparency with a description of your classroom research project for this fall. Include the purpose of the study and the methods, CATs, etc. that will be employed. Please also make 20 copies of your transparency for the attendees. Be prepared to give a 5 minute presentation on your research plans.
Prepare a brief summary of an article previously discussed at a CASTLE meeting. Identify any connection to SOTL and explain its effects on you thinking or inquiry. Bring this on disk to the computer lab.
Cross, K. P. and Steadman, M. H. (1996) Classroom Research: Implementing the Scholarship of Teaching. San Francisco, CA. Jossey-Bass. Chapter 5.
September 6
Prepare one transparency with a description of your classroom research project for this fall. Include the purpose of the study and the methods, CATs, etc. that will be employed. Please also make 20 copies of your transparency for the attendees. Be prepared to give a 5 minute presentation on your research plans.
Cross, K. P. and Steadman, M. H. (1996) Classroom Research: Implementing the Scholarship of Teaching. San Francisco, CA. Jossey-Bass. Chapter 4.
Prepare one transparency with a description of your classroom research project for this fall. Include the purpose of the study and the methods, CATs, etc. that will be employed. Please also make 20 copies of your transparency for the attendees. Be prepared to give a 5 minute presentation on your research plans.
Cross, K. P. and Steadman, M. H. (1996) Classroom Research: Implementing the Scholarship of Teaching. San Francisco, CA. Jossey-Bass. Chapter 3.
The following website contains four classroom research projects that will be conducted this year by faculty and students at Elon College, NC. The Carnegie Academy Campus Program at this institution is supporting four grants per year for SOTL research. Read these proposals to see what others are doing in the area of classroom research. http://www.elon.edu/carnegie/
August 9
Cross, K. P. and Steadman, M. H. (1996) Classroom Research: Implementing the Scholarship of Teaching. San Francisco, CA. Jossey-Bass. Chapter 2.
The following website contains four classroom research projects that will be conducted this year by faculty and students at Elon College, NC. The Carnegie Academy Campus Program at this institution is supporting four grants per year for SOTL research. Read these proposals to see what others are doing in the area of classroom research. http://www.elon.edu/carnegie/
Cross, K. P. and Steadman, M. H. (1996) Classroom Research: Implementing the Scholarship of Teaching. San Francisco, CA. Jossey-Bass. Chapter 1.
July 12
Cross, K. P. (1997) Developing Professional Fitness Through Classroom Assessment and Classroom Research. The Cross Papers Number 1. League for Innovation in the Community College.
Present an article from your discipline, if you have not already done so, that demonstrates action research, follow the guidelines described for June 14 (below).
Bunning, C. (1995). Professional Development Using Action Research. (previously available at: http://www.mcb.co.uk/services/conferen/nov95/ifal/paper1.htm)
Present an article from your discipline, if you have not already done so, that demonstrates action research, follow the guidelines described for June 14 (below).
June 14
Collins, A. and Spiegel, S. (1994). So You Want To Do Action Research? Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education. (http://www.enc.org/reform/journals/enc2432/nf 2432ch10.htm)
Read an article from your discipline that uses action research and prepare a tranparency with:
1. The purpose of teh study
2. The data collected
3. Any data analysis, and
4. The conclusions
Please make 15 copies of your transparency for the attendees. Be prepared to give a 5-8 minute presentation of your article, discussing the aforementioned points.
Sockett, H. (2000). Creating a Culture for the Scholarship of Teaching. Inventio, 1, (http://www.doiiit.gmu/inventio/hsockett 1.html)
Continue reworking our draft definition of SOTL from the meeting on May 17, 2000.
Continue making a list of the conditions on our campus that inhibit and support SOTL.
May 17
Shulman, L. S.(1999). Taking Learning Seriously. Change, 31, 10.
Continue reworking our draft definition of SOTL from the meeting on May 3, 2000
Start making a list of the conditions on our campus that inhibit and support SOTL.
May 3
Hutchings, P. and Shulman, L. S. (1999). The Scholarship of Teaching. Change, 31, 11.
Rework our draft definition of SOTL.