2007 Academic Affairs Faculty SymposiumUnicoi State Park and Conference Center

March 30 -31, 2007

Classroom InstructionBreakout Group ReportBill Barstow, Facilitator

Thanks to:

Norris ArmstrongButch AtwoodDave ChatterjeeNelson HiltonNadia KellamPeggy KreshelChuck KutalSvein OieKathrin Stanger-HallFran Teague

Seven Concerns:

1. Give more than lip-service tovalue of teaching at R1

2. Student study skills

3. Engagement– professor’s enthusiasm, knowledge, inventioncrucial

4. Concern about colleagues who slight teaching

5. Assessment—Class size a major deterrent

6. Class withdrawals, adds – Advising?

7. Give more than lip-service tovalue of teaching at R1

Ten Recommendations:

1. More than lip-service invaluation of teaching

2. BoR: “Support and reward all faculty …. Improving their ownteaching so as to model effectiveteaching practices”

3. Departments should developnew rubrics and explore newmethods of evaluating teaching

4. Teaching Academy / CTL to disseminate activelyteaching resource information—programs on current research about teaching and student learning

5. Endorse Faculty LearningCommunities – participate!

6. Offer intensive FLCs for faculty oneffective teaching andstudent learning -- incentives

7. Mini-grants for teaching projects—Revise ‘Learning Technology Grants’?

8. More new faculty to reduceclass size

9. More advisors, professionaland faculty

10. More than lip-service invaluation of teaching