CIRTL Forum 2011 Program

Teaching, Learning and Research: Preparation of the Nation’s Future Faculty

A National Forum hosted by the CIRTL Network
October 10-11, 2011
The Madison Concourse Hotel
Madison, WI

This 4th National CIRTL Forum will explore the current landscape of professional development efforts to prepare future faculty who are both excellent researchers and excellent teachers. Together, participants will consider the ways in which graduate students and post-docs gain the knowledge, skills and experience they need to become successful faculty members across science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Through presentations, break-out sessions, workshops and a poster session, there will be the opportunities to: 

  • Identify the expected outcomes of teaching–focused professional development programs, and share means of assessing these outcomes;
  • Exchange best practices in future faculty professional development focused on teaching and learning;
  • Showcase the work of graduate students and post-docs engaged in improving teaching and measuring student learning;
  • Our goal is for participants to walk away from the Forum with a shared vision for future faculty teaching professional development, a clear definition of such development  and a means of assessing it.

Who should attend?

  • Graduate students and post-docs interested in improving undergraduate education;
  • Faculty and staff who lead future faculty professional development initiatives;
  • Faculty and staff who study future faculty professional development, especially those interested in defining the competencies for such teaching-focused professional development;
  • Graduate school deans and other administrators who support and want to enhance future faculty professional development programs on their campuses;
  • STEM disciplinary society leaders working to enhance the education of their future faculty members;
  • Employers who are looking to hire new faculty in STEM.

 

October 10, 2011 (8:00am – 8:00pm)

Breakfast (7:00-8:00)

Welcome (8:00-8:15)

          Gary Sandefur, Dean of the College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Introductions (8:15-8:30):

Amy Kamarainen, Science Education Post-Doc at Harvard and Delta Program Alum

Opening Address (8:30-9:00): 

Robert Mathieu, Professor and Chair in the Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Director, Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) Network
 

Opening Keynote (9:00-9:45): The Landscape of Future Faculty Development 

Ann Austin, Professor and Inaugural Dr. Mildred B. Erickson Distinguished Chair of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education, Michigan State University (Link to Austin slides PDF)

Break (9:45-10:15)

Panel Presentation (10:15-11:15): What Knowledge and Skills do STEM Faculty Need for Success in the Classroom?

Moderator: Henry Rique Campa, Professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University

David Feldon, Assistant Professor of Curriculum, Instruction and Special Education, University of Virginia (Link to Feldon slides PDF)

Mary Deane Sorcinelli, Associate Provost for Faculty Development and Professor of Educational Policy, Research & Administration, The University of Massachusetts-Amherst (Link to Sorcinelli slides PDF)
 
Linda von Hoene, Director of the Graduate Student Instructor Teaching and Resource Center, The University of California-Berkeley (Link to von Hoene slides PDF)
 
Concurrent Breakout Sessions (11:30-12:30): Defining the Necessary Skills in Teaching and Learning for Future STEM Faculty

 

Lunch (12:30-2:00): Panel Presentation by New STEM Faculty (over lunch)

Moderator: Christopher Agard, Graduate Student in Animal Behavior/Ecology at Howard University

Lakeshia Legette, Assistant Professor in the Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Johnson C. Smith University

Heather Whitney, Assistant Professor of Physics, Wheaton College

Kai (Billy) Hung, Assistant Professor in Biology, Eastern Illinois University 

Mario Trujillo, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Wisconsin-Madison

Teaching and Learning Workshops (2:15-3:45)

Concurrent Breakout Sessions (4:00-4:45): Defining the Necessary Skills in Teaching and Learning for Future STEM Faculty (continued)

Poster Session Featuring Teaching-as-Research Projects from Future Faculty and Teaching-Focused Future Faculty Development Programs (5:00-6:30)

Dinner and Evening Keynote Speaker (6:30-8:00): Symphony Academy: Awakening The Digital Imagination In STEM

Gardner Campbell, Director of Professional Development and Innovative Initiatives, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

 

 

 

October 11, 2011 (8:00am – 2:30pm)

Welcome & Opening Address (8:00-8:15):

          Christine Pfund, Associate Director, Delta Program in Research, Teaching and Learning, The University of
          Wisconsin-  Madison

Presentation: Articulation of the Necessary Skills in Teaching and Learning for Future STEM Faculty (Link to Connolly/McDaniels slides PDF)

Mark Connolly, Assistant Scientist at Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Melissa McDaniels, ADAPP-ADVANCE Project Director, Michigan State University

Panel Discussion (9:00-10:00): What Do Employers Expect from New STEM Faculty Candidates?

Moderator: John Jungck, Mead Chair of the Sciences and Professor of Biology, Beloit College

Margaret Bloch-Qazi, Associate Professor in Biology, Gustavus Adolphus College

Tom Higgins, Professor of Chemistry, Harold Washington College in Chicago

David Kanis, Interim Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, Chicago State University

Orlando Taylor, President of the Washington, D.C. Campus of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

Break (10:00-10:30)

Breakout Discussion Sessions (10:30-11:30): Measuring Teaching and Learning Skills in STEM

Lunch (11:30-12:30) 

Closing Plenary (12:30-1:30): A Revolution in Science Education: From fringe activity to national mandate

Jo Handelsman, HHMI Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University (Link to Handelsman's Slides PDF)

CIRTL Forum Summary and Charge for Future Action (1:30-2:15)