Georgetown's Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS) welcomes you to the annual Teaching, Learning and Innovation Summer Institute (TLISI). Each May at TLISI, experienced Georgetown faculty members and outside experts join with CNDLS and other university staff to create a week of intensive, in-depth explorations into issues of teaching and learning at Georgetown.
Institute themes:
- Assessment: The Elephant in the Room
- E-Portfolios @ Georgetown
- Entering Mentoring
- (Re)Designing a Course to Make Campus-Community Connections: Social Justice, Community-Based Learning, and Social Entrepreneurship
- Pushing the Boundaries of Classroom Practice
- Teaching to the Whole Student
Institute participants may attend seminars and workshops of one theme, or choose to go to a variety of sessions from different themes. Come to one workshop of interest, or attend the whole week. However, the "Entering Mentoring" and "Campus-Community Connections" themes require multiple-day participation.
Featured speakers at this year's institute include Barbara E. Walvoord, Professor Emerita at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana; Bill Drayton, C.E.O. and Founder of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public; Kathleen B. Yancey, Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English at Florida State University; and Michael Baime, MD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Director of the Penn Program for Stress Management.
The summer institute is free for Georgetown faculty, staff and graduate students who pre-register online. By registering for the institute, you will receive a full conference program, a nametag, and tickets to the two plenary lunches. To register, click on the "register" link above and fill out the form. You will receive a confirmation email as well as further information about the institute as May 19th approaches.