Wisconsin Teaching Scholars
2003 Summer Institute
June 22 – June 27, 2003
Pyle Center, Madison, WI
Summer Institute is designed to provide a forum and a frame in which the Wisconsin
Teaching Scholars may begin to conceptualize and work on their course redesign
in terms of the scholarship of teaching and learning. The Scholarship of Teaching
and Learning (SOT&L) means understanding, explaining and valuing teaching
and attention to student learning as scholarly, intellectual work. Advancing
this perspective requires an academic culture that encourages the following
principles:
• Systematic inquiry into teaching and learning issues;
• Critical reflection on strategies, techniques, possibilities;
• Application of results of reflection to practice;
• Assessment of results;
• Public communication/dissemination of reflection and results;
• Self-reflection;
• Peer Review;
• Demonstrable “products” including publication, student work,
measures of student learning, course portfolios, etc.
Summer Institute is structured so that the mornings will be spent engaging the
eight principles of the SOT&L listed above, and the afternoons will be spent
in both individual and collaborative work on Scholar projects. Some of the Scholars
will have the opportunity to present their nascent projects; all of the Scholars
will have the opportunity to engage in and practice peer review.
The Wisconsin Teaching Scholars Program has three over-arching goals:
1) to provide Scholars with the opportunity to develop their individual projects;
2) to enable Scholars to make themselves available as resources and to collaborate
with others; and
3) to advance the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Each of these goals will be put into practice throughout Summer Institute.
Sunday, June 23
Sunday, June 22
5-6:30 Introductory Meeting
6:30 Dinner on your own (in groups) at area restaurants
Monday, June 23
8:30 - 10:00 What is systematic inquiry into student learning?
Discussion of Pat Hutchings’ Introduction to Opening Lines
Discussion and examination of Scholars’ questions
10:30-12:00 Continued discussion of systematic inquiry
Discussion of R. Bass article, The Scholarship of Teaching:
What’s the Problem?
2:00-4:00 Designing systematic inquiry: small group work by disciplinary clusters
to
begin to design a research plan framed by SoTL question
6:30 Dinner at Donna and George’s
Tuesday, June 24
8:30-10:00 How can we gather evidence about student learning?
Discussion of methods
10:30-12:00 What do we know about learning?
Discussion of Bransford, Chapter One
2:00-4:00 Getting good answers to good questions about student learning.
Small group work
Dinner on your own
Wednesday, June 25
8:30-10:00 What does SoTL work look like?
Presentations by 3-4 Center Scholars and past WTS
10:30-12:00 Presentations and discussion continued
2:00-4:00 Concurrent Sessions:
Small group work on project design
Discussion of Bransford, Chapter 6
Dinner on your own
Thursday, June 26
8:30-10:00 How can we assess student learning?
Presentation and discussion with Bill Cerbin
10:30-12:00 Designing your course.
Discussion of Lee Shulman’s article, Course Anatomy: The
Dissection and Analysis of Knowledge Through Teaching
2:00-4:00 Project work and small group peer review
6:00 Pizza Party at Lisa Kornetsky’s house
Friday, June 27
8:30-9:30 Public communication and dissemination of results and products
Group discussion of Shulman, Taking Learning Seriously
Linking your work to campus and system initiatives
9:30-10:30 Summary discussion: What makes your work SoTL work? How
does your project differ from the traditional teaching improvement
project?
11:00-12:00 Beyond Summer Institute: communication, meetings, projects,
expectations, and recommendations for the coming year.