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IU and CASTL Institutional Leadership Program"Expanding the Teaching Commons" Indiana University has been selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to lead a group of institutions who will work together to expand the scholarship of teaching and learning. Coming on the heels of earlier RUCASTL discussions, this new and diverse group brings a wealth of experiences and successes to the table. The CASTL Institutional Leadership Program is a three-year partnership between Carnegie and selected colleges, universities and higher education organizations with a strong commitment to the careful examination of teaching and learning. “Through this program, Carnegie acknowledges the important contributions of institutional leaders and advocates while encouraging the development of new forums and structures supporting scholarly investigation into teaching and learning,” said CASTL Director Richard A. Gale. The Indiana University Proposal Indiana University's participation is based on a proposal to foster small inquiry communities of Bloomington faculty members and graduate students that will generate, critique, and disseminate in-depth and comparative scholarship that examines relationships between learning and teaching, within and across disciplines. These collaborative inquiry communities will contribute to what Huber and Hutchings call a teaching commons, a conceptual space in which inquiry and innovation about teaching and learning can be exchanged. There, as they say, the private work of the classroom can be “made visible, talked about, studied, built upon, and valued.” The current IU Faculty Inquiry Communities include: Food For Thought: A Human Biology-Environmental Literacy and Sustainability Initiative Project in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Building a Network for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning History (Leah Shopkow, David Pace, Arlene Diaz) Brief Student Goal Orientation Intervention to Improve Success in Entry Level Courses in the Natural Sciences (The Mack Center for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) Cross-Disciplinary Research on Collaborative Learning: A Critical Examination of Group Instructional Approaches (Theresa Ochoa and Howard Rosenbaum) Project CARE: C hemistry Taking A ction to R esearch and E nhance Student Achievement (Michael Edwards and Bob Vantine) Diversity Course Exploratory Study (Katharine V. Byers, Carolyn Calloway-Thomas, Thomas Nelson Laird) Indiana University 's Coordinating Role in the International Initiative. All institutions selected to participate in the CASTL Leadership Program have developed and implemented innovative strategies to strengthen teaching and improve student learning on their own campuses. Through participation in the Carnegie program, they will collaborate with other institutions to further examine that work and expand activities in those same areas. Indiana University will coordinate the following group of institutions working along their common theme of Expanding the Teaching Commons:
For more information about the Carnegie initiative, visit www.carnegiefoundation.org./CASTL. To view the original Indiana University Proposal, access this Word Document. |
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