Publications, Papers, and Teaching Tools in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

BOOKS

• Decoding the Disciplines: Helping Students Learn Disciplinary Ways of Thinking ( New Directions in Teaching and Learning , Vol. 98 (Fall 2004) [co-edited with Joan Middendorf ]

• Studying for History, (Harper Collins, 1995) [Co-authored with Professor Sharon Pugh]

 

ARTICLES

• “ The History Learning Project: A Department “Decodes” Its Students,” Journal of American History (forthcoming March 2008) [Co-authored with Joan Middendorf, Leah Shopkow , and Arlene Diaz]

• “Opening History's ‘Black Boxes': Decoding the Disciplinary Unconscious of Historians” in Carolin Kreber, ed., Teaching and Learning within and beyond disciplinary boundaries (Routledge), forthcoming .

• “The Globalization of History Teaching through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” Arts and Humanities , Vol.6, No. 3, (Fall 2007)

• “Easing Entry into the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning through Focused Assessments: The “Decoding the Disciplines” Approach, To Improve the Academy (2007)

• “Making Thinking Explicit: A History Department Decodes Its Discipline,” National Teaching and Learning Forum , Vol.16, No.2 (February 2007) [Co-authored with Joan Middendorf, Leah Shopkow , and Arlene Diaz]

  “The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning History Comes of Age: A New International Organization and Web Site/Newsletter,” History Teacher , Vol.40, No. 1 (November 2006), pp.75-78. [Co-authored with Keith Erekson]

• “The Amateur in the Operating Room: History and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” American Historical Review , Vol. 109, No. 4 (October 2004), pp. 1171-1192.*

• "Controlled Fission: Teaching Supercharged Subjects," College Teaching, Spring 2003.
• "Overcoming Cultural Obstacles to New Ways of Teaching: The Lilly Freshman Learning Project at Indiana University," To Improve the Academy , Vol. 20 (2002), pp. 208-224 (with Joan Middendorf).

• "Five Habits of Successful Students," "Creating a Future," "Raiding Virtual Libraries," Assessing Basic Skills in a Discipline," and "No Whining: The Value of One-Page Appeals" in Holly Stocking et al, eds., More Quick Hits: Successful Strategies by Award Winning Teachers (Bloomington, In.: Indiana University Press, 1998), pp. 59, 63, 82, 102-103, 107-108.

• "Why Did the Chicken Cross the Screen? Cognitive and Emotional Considerations in Using Film to Teach About the Manhattan Project and Hiroshima" in John Lovell, ed., Shattered Dreams of the Good Life: Violence and the Oppressed, Insights from Film into Violence and Oppression (Westport Connecticut and London: Praeger, 1998.

• "Creating a Teaching Community among Graduate Students at a Research-Oriented University," American Historical Association Perspectives (December 1997) (with Mary Cunningham, Stephen Kercher, and Meg Meneghel).

• "Beyond 'Sorting': Teaching Cognitive Skills in the History Survey," The History Teacher, Vol. 26, No.4 (February 1993), pp. 211-220.

• "Structure and Spontaneity: Pedagogical Tensions in the Construction of a Simulation of the Cuban Missile Crisis" (with Bill Bishel, Roger Beck, Peter Holquist, and George Makowski), The History Teacher, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Nov. 1990), pp. 53-65.

LECTURES AND PANELS ON TEACHING

• “Teaching the Mental Operations a Department Requires of Its Students,” Indiana University Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Lecture Series, September 2007 (with Arlene Diaz, Joan Middendorf, and Leah Shopkow)

• “ Decoding Your Discipline: Defining What is Obvious to You and Mystifying to Your Students,” City University of Hong Kong, April 2007

• “Decoding the Disciplines and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: The Experience of the Indiana University Freshman Learning Project,” Elon University , March 2007

• “Bringing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to Bear on the Challenges of the History Classroom,” “Decoding the Disciplines and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” and “Reaching Across the Chasm: Establishing Links Between History Teachers in Secondary Schools and Universities,” Metropolitan State College of Denver , February 2007

• "Decoding History: Making Explicit the Mental Operations A Department Expects of its Students,” Annual Conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Washington , D.C. , November 2006 (with Arlene Diaz, Joan Middendorf, and Leah Shopkow)

• “ Organizing Disciplines for SoTL: Building on the Strategies of Historians in the UK, US, and Australia,” Annual Conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Washington, D.C., November 2006 (with Alan Booth, Sean Brawley, and Geoff Timmins)

• “Tools and Processes: Understanding Methods of Inquiry and Dissemination,” Annual Conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Washington, D.C., November 2006 (with Carol Hostetter, Bernice Pescosolido, and David Malik)

• “Assessing Learning in History, 18th Annual Retreat of the “ Indiana University Fa culty C olloquium on E xcellence in T eaching , Angola , Indiana , May 2006

• “Preparing Future Faculty Programs in American History Departments” The 8 th Annual Conference on History in Higher Education, University of Oxford , April 2006

• “Are History Students in Our Classes Really Learning What We Want to Teach Them?” The 8 th Annual Conference on History in Higher Education, University of Oxford , April 2006

• “Easing Entry into the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Through Focused Assessments: the “Decoding the Disciplines” Approach,” International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Vancouver , October 2005

• “ Contemporary College Teaching in History in the United States ,” State Department sponsored video presentation to thirty history and political science professors in South Africa , October 2005

• “Decoding the Disciplines: Helping Students Learn Disciplinary Ways of Thinking,” Otterbein College , September, 2005

• “Where the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning History Stands in the United States Today,” Disciplinary Perspectives on Research about History Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Issues and Opportunities, invitational symposium sponsored by the Enhancing Teaching-Learning Environments in Undergraduate Courses Project and the Higher Academy Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archeology of the United Kingdom, Edinburgh, June 2004

• Presentation on “Seven Steps to Decoding the Disciplines” FACET Annual Meetings, Angola , Indiana , May 2005

• “ Decoding the Disciplines: Helping Students Overcome Obstacles to Learning in Your Classes,” Keynote Address at the University of Akron 's annual Celebration of Excellence in Learning and Teaching, April 2005

• “Something Borrowed: What We Have to Learn from the Literature on History Teaching in High School , ” Meetings of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Bloomington, IN, Oct. 22, 2004

• “Decoding the Disciplines: A Model for Helping Students Learn Disciplinary Ways of Thinking , ” Meetings of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Bloomington, IN, Oct. 22, 2004 (with Joan Middendorf )

• “Decoding the Disciplines: 7 Steps to Overcome Obstacles to Learning,” Poster Presentation at Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Spring Celebration, Bloomington , Indiana , April 23, 2004 (with Joan Middendorf )

• “The Role of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Professional Development” on Panel Sponsored by the Indiana University Office of Research, October 2003.

• “So, What is My Job Anyway? How a Project in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Raises Questions about the Nature of Faculty Work,” Annual Faculty Retreat on Active Learning: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, University of Illinois , Champaigne-Urbana, January 27, 2003.

• Panelist on “Diversity in the Humanities” at Carnegie Fellows' Notre Dame Diversity Conference: Challenges in Diversity - Gender, Class and Ethnicity: Strategies for Teaching & Learning,” Notre Dame University , Nov.7, 2002

• Rethinking Reading : Knowing What We Want Our Students to Do,” Keynote Address, Conference for the Development of Teaching and Learning in History, Oxford University , April 2002

• Using Course Web Sites to Model the Thinking of History,” Conference for the Development of Teaching and Learning in History, Oxford University , April 2002

• "Teaching Our Students to Think in the Language of Our Disciplines," Keynote address, University of Illinois Annual Faculty Colloquium on Teaching, February, 2002.

• "Using Technology to Serve Teaching," Keynote Address, Illinois State University Colloquium on the Use of Technology in the Classroom, March 2002

• "Rethinking Reading: Knowing What We Want Our Students to Do," Keynote Address, Conference on History Teaching, Oxford University, April 2002

• "Using Course Web Sites To Model the Thinking of History," Conference on History Teaching, Oxford University, April 2002

• "‘Read Pages 23-49 . . .' What Do We Want Students To Do When We Ask Them to Read?" American Historical Association Meetings, January 2002

• "Just in Time Teaching in the Humanities: Using Web-Based Warm-up Exercises in the Humanities" at the annual meetings of the International Society for the Exploration of Teaching Alternatives, Indianapolis, October, 2001.

• "Turning Abstract Learning Goals into Concrete Facility Strategies: The ‘Operations Interviews'," Annual Meetings of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education, St. Louis, October 2001 (with Joan Middendorf)

• "The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Redrawing the Conceptual Map of Higher Education," St. Olaf College, April 23, 2001

• "The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Historian's Perspective," Conference on Teaching and Learning Across the Disciplines: Models for Scholarship, Youngstown State University, February 23, 2001

• "‘Remind Me Why I Got Excited About Teaching': Faculty Change through the Creation of Cohorts," Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education, 25th Annual Conference, Vancouver, Nov. 10, 2000. (with Joan Middendorf)

• "Modeling the Craft of History on a Course Website," Indiana University Teaching Learning Technologies Lab Faculty Project Showcase, May 24, 2000

• Show Casing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning," Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Indiana University South Bend, April 14, 2000 (with Dennis Jacobs Notre Dame University and Craig Nelson, IUB)

• "Higher Level Thinking in Large Lecture Classes: The Warm-Up Exercise," Indiana University Symposium, April 7, 2000 (with Joan Middendorf, IUB, Professor Gregor Novak, IUPUI, and Professor James Brophy, IUB)

• "New Visions of Teaching and Scholarship : The Future of History in the New Academia," University of Toronto, October 22, 1999

• "A Student's Guide to the Tower of Babel: Teaching the Culture of Our Disciplines," Dean of Faculty and RUGS lecture series on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, October 21, 1999

• "A Model for Thinking About Scholarship of Teaching," A Community of Scholars of Teaching and Learning, Sponsored by the Indiana University Dean of Faculties Office
• "Strategies for Effecting Campus Reform" Indiana University Summer Leadership Institute, June 1999

• "Mobilizing Faculty to Rethink Student Learning: The IUB Freshman Learning Project," 17th Annual Spring Symposium, Bloomington, Indiana

• "What Do We Want Them to Do? The Indiana University Freshman Learning Project's Effort to Define and to Model Disciplinary Expectations in Introductory Courses," International First-Year Experience Conference, Dublin, Ireland, July 1998

• "Profiling the Indiana University Undergraduate" at the Indiana University Teaching Resources Center's workshop for new faculty and Teaching Assistants in August 1995-2000

• "Teaching Controversial Topics," Panel in Indiana University Teaching Resources College Teaching Workshop Series, March 1, 1996.

• "Creating a Departmental Teaching Community through Faculty/TA Cooperation," presented at "The Professional Apprenticeship: TAs in the 21st Century" (5th National Conference on the Education and Employment of Graduate Teaching Assistants), November 1995 [Presented with Mary Cunningham, Stephen Kercher, and Meg Meneghel]

• Panelist at session on "Designing a College Pedagogy Program at a Research University" at "The Professional Apprenticeship: TAs in the 21st Century" (5th National Conference on the Education and Employment of Graduate Teaching Assistants), November 1995

• Panelist in Teaching Resources Center session on "Advanced Discussion Techniques," January 1995

• Panelist in Dean of Faculties panel discussion, "Teaching Graduate Students to Teach" January 1994

• "Simulations as a Tool in Dealing with Cultural Diversity in the Classroom, Nola Hatterman Institut, Paramaribo, Surinam, July 1990

• "Allan Bloom and Changing Definition of Culture in American Education," Nola Hatterman Institut, Paramaribo, Surinam, July 1990

• "Simulations and Computers: New Horizons in the Teaching of the Social Sciences," University of Sao Paulo, Brazil and Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, March, 1987

• "Modern Europe in the Undergraduate Education", Social Studies Development Center and West European Studies Program Conference on "Improving the Teaching of Contemporary Europe", Bloomington, Nov. 1983

• "Teaching Women's History Through Simulations", N.E.H. Conference on Women's History, Bloomington, April 1980

• "Instructional Simulations and Games" Teaching Resources Center Workshop, Bloomington, March 1980
  
• Commentary at Session on the Use of Simulations in the Teaching of History, American Historical Convention, San Francisco, Dec. l978

• "The Development of Departmental Slide and Map Libraries", Meeting organized by Audiovisual Department and Teaching Resource Center on expanding use of audiovisual materials, Bloomington, Feb., 1978

• "Game Simulations in Western Civilization Surveys", Lilly Endowment History Conference, Bloomington, Feb. 1977

• "The Use of Essay Exams", College of Arts and Science Teaching Workshop, Bloomington, March 1975

WORKSHOPS OFFERED

• New Visions of Teaching and Scholarship: Developing a Strategy for Departmental Success in a New World of Higher Education," History Department, University of Toronto, October 1999.
• Freshman Learning Program Faculty Development Seminars, Summers of 1998-2001 [with Joan Middendorf, David Goodrum, and Jennifer Robinson
• Minority Education and Development Initiative for Careers in Biomedicine Seminar for Science Faculty, Summers of 1999-2001 [with Joan Middendorf]

TEACHING TOOLS CREATED

"Five German Families: A Simulation of 19th Century European Social History" (with Jim Diehl)

COURSE WEB SITES
"From Apocalypse to Star Trek: A History of the Future" http://www.indiana.edu/~futhist
"Paris and Berlin in the 1920s: A Cultural History" http://www.indiana.edu/~pb20s