Faculty Food for Thought Archive
Informal lunchtime conversations that focus on issues of
interest to teaching and learning, higher education and best
practices in pedagogy.
Spring 2011
Recruiting Students for National Fellowships and
Post-Graduate Awards
Thursday, March 24, noon - 1 p.m. in
AU111, 4-5 p.m. in JH109
Harry Truman, George Mitchell, William Fulbright,
Morris Udall, David Boren, Jacob Javitz, Barry Goldwater. What do
these former U.S. legislators (and one president) have to do with
Butler students? Each has had a national scholarship or
fellowship program named in his honor for which Butler students are
eligible!
All faculty are invited to a special lunch conversation to learn
more about post-graduate fellowships and grants and how to identify
Butler students for these awards. Each year hundreds of U.S.
undergraduates apply for nationally competitive scholarships and
fellowships. Some awards take on mythic proportions and appear to
be the exclusive province of students from the most elite U.S.
colleges and universities. The reality is that high-achieving
Butler students make very competitive candidates for these and the
myriad of national scholarships and fellowships available each
year. You can play an important role in identifying students
for these awards.
Please join colleagues to learn more about identifying and
recruiting top Butler students for national scholarships and
fellowships; the discussion will be led by CHASE Office Associate
Director Mariangela Maguire.
Speaking Across the Curriculum
Thursday, February 17, noon - 1 p.m. in
AU111, 4-5 p.m. in JH109
Please join faculty colleagues for a workshop on
developing a course that fulfills the speaking across the
curriculum expectation of the new Core curriculum. Led by Butler
faculty with expertise in the discipline, learn how to create a
speaking across the curriculum course, develop assignments and
projects, and how to assess or evaluate student work in such a
course.
Student Disability Services/Counseling
Thursday, January 27, noon - 1 p.m. in
AU111, 4- 5 p.m. in JH109
Join Michele Atterson, Director of Student Disability
Services, and Keith Magnus, Director of the Counseling Center, to
talk about how best to work with students with disabilities; what
accommodations are appropriate; what documentation is necessary;
and ways that faculty can most successfully work with students who
have identified disabilities, or have need of counseling.
Fall 2010
Planning for a University Teaching and Learning
Center
Wednesday, November 3, 8:30-9:30
a.m.
Monday, November 8, 4-5 p.m.
Thursday, November 18, 11-noon and noon-1
p.m. (lunch provided)
Monday, November 22, 9:30-10:30
a.m.
Thursday, December 2, noon - 1 p.m.,
JH109
Teaching and learning centers emerged at colleges and
universities more than 15 years ago and brought together much of
the high-quality faculty development work that was happening in
multiple areas on campuses. At Butler, faculty development efforts
currently come out of each of the colleges and the Provost's
Office. As new initiatives are added, and as the needs of faculty
continue to evolve, it is time to develop a faculty-driven teaching
and learning center, as the strategic plan articulates. A center
will provide the leadership, resources, and communication network
needed for responsive and responsible faculty development at the
University. A center will provide programming that changes and
develops according to the focus and interests of the faculty, the
needs of students, and the issues confronting us as an institution
of higher education.
Transforming Teaching through Technology
Presentations
Thursday, November 11, noon
- 1 p.m., AU302
Join colleagues, Shelly Furuness (Education) and
James McGrath (Philosophy and Religion), who participated in the
summer "Transforming Teaching through Technology" workshop, present
on how they are incorporating technology into their classes.
Furuness will present on "digital makeovers" that are helping
students articulate and show their thinking process online. McGrath
will talk about how he is using electronic texts in his course,
"The Bible," and how he is exploring what electronic texts offer us
that printed texts cannot.
Spring 2010
Working with Students with
Disabilities
Thursday, February 18, noon-1 p.m., University Club,
AU111
Join Michele Atterson, Director of Student Disability Services to
talk about how best to work with students with disabilities; what
accommodations are appropriate; what documentation is necessary;
and ways that faculty can most successfully work with students who
have identified disabilities.
Faculty Food for Thought:
SENCER
Thursday, January 28, noon-1 p.m., University Club,
AU111
SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and
Responsibilities) is a program that focuses on improving
science education by focusing on real world problems. Join Joe
Kirsch (Chemistry), Tara Lineweaver (Psychology), Meredith Beilfuss
(Education), and Phil Villani (Biological Sciences) for a
discussion of how they've used the SENCER model to develop
courses focused on real world challenges.
Fall 2009
Faculty Food for Thought: Teaching with
Twitter?
Tuesday, October 27, 5-6 p.m., University Club,
AU111
Join colleagues for a conversation about how social media
- online video, blogs, wikis,
podcasts - may
be changing the way we teach, and the way students
learn.
Digital
Storytelling,
Thursday, September 3, noon-1 p.m., University Club,
AU111
Join colleagues to learn about digital storytelling,
the practice of using computer-based tools--a mixture
of images, computer-based images, text, or recorded audio
narration--to tell stories.
Incorporating Service
Learning into Courses
Thursday, September 10, noon-1 p.m., University Club,
AU111
A focused Countdown to the
Core conversation to introduce the concepts of
service learning and provide examples of how Butler
faculty have successfully enhanced their students' learning
through community connections.