Here's a look back at the 2001 Symposium...
11:30
Registration, Refreshments, & Conversation
12:00 Lunch and Welcoming Comments
Music and Dialougue by Dr. Gary M. Scott (PSE)
and Dr. George Kyanka (CMWPE)
Opening Comments: Provost Tully
12:50
Plenary Session and Roundtable Discussions:
2:30
A Community of Teaching and Learning: Putting the Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education to work at ESF
Sponsored by the Faculty Governance Committees on Instruction and Public Service, Offices of the President and Provost, and IDEaS
In 1992, as part of the Faculty Governance Subcommittee on Instruction Instructional Quality's efforts to address our collective goal to enhance teaching and learning at
ESF. We hosted a series of public discussions involving students and faculty, made a summary report by faculty and student participants at a College-wide faculty meeting,
and provided a report in our Focus on Teaching and Learning newsletter (now Focus on Teaching and Learning).We called this process and the resulting report, A
Community of Teaching and Learning. Our discussions focused on our relationships, perspectives, and responsibilities as partners in the teaching/learning process. We
explored the factors that most influence our teaching and learning. Our initiative was inspired, in part, by a seminal AAHE conference presentation
(and subsequent publications) by Lee Shulman, professor of education and psychology at Stanford University in which he suggested that in the best teaching, "knowledge
was not merely transmitted effectively, but that it became transformed and reborn in students' minds. It became theirs viscerally as well as rationally."
Following and building upon this 1992 effort, along with subsequent related efforts, this year's (our fifth) College-wide Symposium on Teaching, Learning, and Technology
involved faculty, staff, administrators, and undergraduate and graduate students in a dialogue based upon the Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education. We
employed student and faculty inventories based upon the Principles for Good Practice in order to reflect upon our teaching and learning, to enrich our perspectives, and to
identify individual and shared agendas for action. Our dialogue and action planning energized our individual and collective commitment to an ever greater vision of
excellence in teaching and learning at ESF.
Workshops
Publishing your work in traditional print and electronic formats: Ideas and examples for teaching,
research, and service
Coordinators: Dayton Reuter (Landscape Architecture), Gary Scott (Paper Science Engineering)
How to design and produce posters for your research and service activities
Coordinators: Stephen Keller (Paper Science Engineering), Ross Jacobs (IDEaS), Robin Hoffman (Landscape
Architecture) & Jane Verostek (Library)
ESF's high school relations efforts: What's in it for you and where do you fit in?
Coordinators: Dudley Raynal (Environmental and Forest Biology) & Chuck Spuches (IDEaS)
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