Event Title
Interdisciplinary Collaborative Teaching: Engaging the Possibilities
Location
DSB, Room 105
Start Date
30-5-2013 4:00 PM
End Date
30-5-2013 5:15 PM
Session Type
Interactive Session
Description
Collaboratively teaching an interdisciplinary course provides faculty members with an opportunity to grow as professionals, teachers, and intellectuals. Research has demonstrated that this type of learning experience fosters students’ abilities to make connections across disciplines. In this session we will explore the challenges and benefits of a campus-wide effort to offer collaboratively taught interdisciplinary courses to students in their second semester of sophomore year. We will examine faculty approaches to their work together, from syllabus development through planning, teaching, and grading. Techniques that work and approaches that have not been as successful will be considered. The potential for empowering faculty and students through interdisciplinary collaborative teaching will be explored using the experience on one campus as a starting point for discussion.
Topic Designation
Teaching & Learning
Presenter Bio(s)
Laurie Grupp is Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence and an Associate Professor of Elementary Special Education at Providence College in Providence, RI.
Interdisciplinary Collaborative Teaching: Engaging the Possibilities
DSB, Room 105
Collaboratively teaching an interdisciplinary course provides faculty members with an opportunity to grow as professionals, teachers, and intellectuals. Research has demonstrated that this type of learning experience fosters students’ abilities to make connections across disciplines. In this session we will explore the challenges and benefits of a campus-wide effort to offer collaboratively taught interdisciplinary courses to students in their second semester of sophomore year. We will examine faculty approaches to their work together, from syllabus development through planning, teaching, and grading. Techniques that work and approaches that have not been as successful will be considered. The potential for empowering faculty and students through interdisciplinary collaborative teaching will be explored using the experience on one campus as a starting point for discussion.