The Bridgewater State College Teacher-Scholar Summer Institute

 

The Institute will run for five days (August 23 - 27) and offers two tracks:  one focused on pedagogy, the other focused on participants' writing.  

 

Descriptions

2010 Participants

Pedagogy Track.  This track offers up to twenty-four faculty and librarians from across campus the opportunity to spend a week learning about and discussing effective teaching with emphasis on particular themes. This year's Institute themes are Cultural Inclusion, Sustainability, and Undergraduate Research. Participants will take part in workshop sessions on two of these three themes throughout the week. In the morning, participants attend workshops facilitated by BSU faculty development leaders. In the afternoon, Institute participants have an opportunity to work individually or with colleagues from cognate disciplines regarding ways to use the information and pedagogies offered in the Institute in their classrooms. When completing the attached Institute applications, participants will rank their level of interest in the three themes. Every effort will be made to honor all requests, and participants will be placed in at least one of their top two thematic choices.

 

Theme descriptions:

Culturally Inclusive Pedagogies and Scholarship

This theme will develop participants' self awareness, knowledge and skill to engage in discipline-specific culturally inclusive teaching. Participants will also read and discuss exemplars of pedagogical research/scholarship focusing on themes of cultural inclusion in order to support their development as scholars.

 

Teaching Sustainability through Guided Inquiry Learning 

The Sustainability theme aims to enhance faculty/librarian teaching and professional development through the incorporation of sustainability topics into new or existing courses, and enhances student learning through guided inquiry.

 

Undergraduate Research in the Disciplines

This theme asks participants to examine what undergraduate research looks like in specific classes within departments.  Participants will determine the introductory research skills students must begin to learn early in the major through introductory and methods classes, as well as what those research skills should blossom into in advanced classes in the major (including capstones). Participants will then take two classes they already teach or hope to teach, one at the beginning of a student's career and one at its culmination, and integrate a research strand within it.

 

Writing Track.  The second track of the Summer Institute, a Writing Retreat, allows nine faculty/librarians to immerse themselves in a writing project while receiving support and feedback from a writing group of their peers. The types of writing faculty work on during the retreat may range from a conference paper, to a grant proposal, journal article, or book prospectus. Interested faculty complete the attached application describing their project, the current stage of the project, and their goals for writing during the Writing Retreat. Participants will be organized into writing groups, based on similarities in disciplines or types of projects. Each morning, participants have time dedicated to writing. In the afternoon, participants meet with their writing groups. During these daily writing group meetings, participants will share progress made toward writing goals, workshop any pieces of writing the writer wants feedback on, and set new goals for the next day.  

 

Compensation:  Institute participants will receive $2,000.00 for participation in the five-day Institute, and another $1,000.00 upon creating a new course or substantially revitalizing an existing course using information learned during the institute (for the Pedagogy Track) or complete their project and submit work to a conference, journal, publisher, etc. (for the Writing Track). Full-time and adjunct faculty are eligible.

 

Application Deadline:  For both the Writing Retreat and the Pedagogy tracks, applications are due May 17, 2010.

 

Applications will be reviewed by the theme facilitators (Lee Torda, Ed Brush, and Sabrina Gentlewarrior), the Writing Retreat Facilitator (Michelle Cox), and the Director of the Office of Teaching and Learning (Ann Brunjes).

 

Teacher-Scholar Summer Institute

Participant List

August 23 - 27, 2010

 

Pedagogy Track

1.       Arndt, Martina, Physics

2.       Bailey, Kathy, Social Work

3.       Birge-Liberman, Phil, Geography

4.       Bond, Barbara, Social Work

5.       Cohen, Jodi, Sociology

6.       Davis-Street, Jeanean, Accounting & Finance

7.       Dobush, Ken, Special Education & Communication Disorders

8.       Donalds, Kelley, Management

9.       Farley, Michael, Aviation Science

10.   Hooker, John, Art

11.   Hyland, Allyson, English

12.   LaBrozzi, Ryan, Foreign Languages

13.   Lowe, Margaret, History

14.   McNaughton, Melanie, Communication Studies

15.   McQuarrie, Sarah, Music

16.   Moses, Nancy, Theater & Dance

17.   Nwosu, Amos, MAHPLS

18.   Reinhart, Bill, Chemistry

19.   Roling, Jonathan, Biology

20.   Salomone, Matthew, Mathematics & Computer Science

21.   Savas, Minae, Foreign Languages

22.   Sexton, John, English

23.   Sheehy, Deb, MAHPLS

24.   Tan, Jing, Social Work

 

Writing Retreat

1.       Allen, Stuart, English

2.       Bacon, Victoria, Counselor Education

3.       Boellstorff, Darcy, Geography

4.       Freeburg, Nikki, Counselor Education

5.       Hegbloom, Maria, Communication Studies

6.       Holman, Andy, History

7.       Ingvoldstad, Bjorn, Communication Studies

8.       Mamberg, Michelle, Psychology

9.       Mickey, Tom, Communication Studies

10.   Rawlins, Maxine, Counselor Education

11.   Raymond, Jennifer, Sociology

12.   Stakhnevich, Yulia, English

13.   Vandenburgh, Hank, Sociology

14.   Vejvoda, Kathleen, English

15.   Wakin, Michele, Sociology/Office of the President

 

Click here for:
Pedagogy Track Application

Writing Track Application

Pedagogy Track Daily Schedule

Writing Track Daily Schedule

Last Modified: October 3, 2011