New GT Opportunity: Class of 1969 Teaching Scholars

Atlanta (August 29, 2008) — The Class of 1969 Teaching Scholars is a theme-based program that brings faculty together to investigate a particular teaching and learning topic. The faculty then develop, pilot, and evaluate a strategic initiative that incorporates what they have learned and improves student learning in their courses or at the departmental or collegiate level.
The program is open to all 75% to full-time faculty, including academic professionals and tenure track faculty who have been at Georgia Tech for a minimum of three semesters and whose appointment regularly involves teaching two or more courses per semester. The program is open to faculty who have previously been Class of 1969 Teaching Fellows or Hesburgh Award Teaching Fellows.

Meetings of the Class of 1969 Teaching Scholars are co-facilitated by CETL’s Associate Director for Faculty Development and a member of the Georgia Tech campus community with special expertise in the topic selected for study. Participants meet weekly to review the literature on the targeted topic, interview campus personnel who are knowledgeable about the topic at Georgia Tech, and explore initiatives currently underway on other campuses. As Teaching Scholars develop their own initiatives to pilot on the Georgia Tech campus, they learn how to incorporate assessment and evaluation components so that they can determine the impact of their projects as well as contribute to pedagogical research in higher education.

Teaching Scholars share their initial findings with campus colleagues at Celebrating Teaching Day in spring semester and then consider possibilities for further dissemination of their findings at local and national conferences and higher education publications. Teaching Scholars receive a $1000 fellowship to support the implementation of their project and/or disseminating information about it.

Note: In this inaugural year of the Class of 1969 Teaching Scholars, the theme will be “peer assisted learning” and the group will be co-facilitated by Dr. Joyce Weinsheimer, Associate Director for Faculty Development (CETL) and Eric Moschella, Director of Academic Support and Assistant Director of Success Programs.

For more information, please go to:
http://www.cetl.gatech.edu/faculty/tfs.htm