Each April, the CFT hosts the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Symposium which was held most recently on April 12, 2012 from 4:00-5:30 at the Center for Teaching.

The format included:

• Roundtable sessions with fellow graduate students who’ve successfully applied their research skills to their teaching
• Reception

Who is this event intended for?

• Graduate students, as well as faculty & staff, interested in improving their teaching
• Anyone interested in learning practical strategies and methods for developing, applying, and analyzing research projects
• Those in all stages of the Teaching Certificate Program who either are currently or will be engaging in SoTL during cycle three.
• Anyone wondering: why does SoTL matter and why should I care about this? (We’ll answer those questions and more)

The 2012 Symposium featured these Teaching Certificate Cycle 3 Participants:

• Cassandra S. Koontz
  Missing the Forest for the Trees: Concept Map Horizontality and Performance in an Introduction to Biological Anthropology Course
• Katie McEwan
  Learning German on the Internet:  How does a collaborative course wiki impact student learning in a fourth-semester German course?
• Angela Cowser
  Using Rubrics to Improve Student Comprehension and Writing

• Kim Scott
  A Comparative Analysis of Teaching Methods: Lecture Only, Demonstration and Hands-On Activities, and Written Instructions and Hands-On Activities
• Wenyue Du
  Impact of Online vs. Traditional Paper-and-pencil Homework Assignments in Student Learning in an Introductory Biology
  
• Rebecca St. Clair
  Students Prefer Standard Multiple Choice Questions
  
• Menghun Goh
  The Use of Semiotic in Teaching Koine Greek

The 2011 Symposium featured these participants:

• Gretchen Selcke
  A&S, Spanish – Task-Based Activity for Implicit Grammar Instruction
• Hang Wang
  A&S, Mathematics – Effect of Daily Practice in Calculus Classroom
• Jenny Retherford
  Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering – “Pacing” Homework Due Dates: A Lesson in Time Management
• Joseph Conrad
  Medical School, Microbiology & Immunology – Influence of formalized technical/contextual lab intros
• Kristin Jernigan
  Medical School, Cell & Developmental Biology – Cooperative learning – effect on student performance
• Jim Wilburn
  Peabody, LPO – Improving Leadership through Simulation
• Kate O’Doherty
  Peabody, Psychology – Collaborative Testing: Does it Work/Do Students Like it?