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Working Groups Process

Getting to Questions: Resources for Developing Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Projects

Documents for Participants

Getting to Questions (Word document) -- more background information on writing your reflection piece.

Resources on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Projects

A. Resources on Problematizing Teaching and Learning

Randy Bass, "The Scholarship of Teaching: What's the Problem?" Inventio (February 1999)
Article on defining research problems in teaching and learning

Pat Hutchings, "Approaching the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning," Introduction to Opening Lines: Approaches to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Menlo Park, CA: Carnegie Publications, 2000).Essay on methods and approaches in the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Lee Shulman, "Taking Learning Seriously," Change ( July/August 1999), Vol. 31, No. 4. Pages 10-17. Article on taking learning so seriously that we treat its pathologies as well as its successes.
B. An Example of a Finished Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Project

Here is an example of how others have problematized teaching in their classrooms. This is a finished course portfolio and is included to give your thinking a sense of direction; we will not be devising anything this elaborate at this time.

Mills Kelly, "Western Civilization: A Course Portfolio" >From an independent scholar in the VKP, this course portfolio is a part of Mills' larger investigations into technology and history teaching.
C. Additional Resources on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Lee S. Shulman, "Inventing the Future," Conclusion to Opening Lines: Approaches to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Menlo Park, CA: Carnegie Publications, 2000). Essay comparing the scholarship of teaching and learning to clinical work in the health sciences.

Randy Bass, "How do I study student learning without becoming an educational researcher?" VKP Community Newsletter, (June 2001).

Sherry Linkon, Making Sense of the Evidence of Student Learning: Getting to Researchable Questions in the Scholarship of Teaching, VKP Resource Kit, (2001).

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