Center for Teaching Excellence Reflective Practice Teaching Circles 2019-20
Updated 11-4-19 CTC= Cross-Disciplinary Teaching Circle DTC= Departmental Teaching Circle
| Type of Teaching Circle | Open or Closed | Name of Teaching Circle | Brief Description | Facilitator | Facilitator Email |
| CTC | Closed | Pre-Tenure and Promotion Working Group | To learn about the tenure and promotion process for tenure-track faculty, to review past year's promotion and tenure materials, and prepare our own tenure and promotion materials. | Aleea Lynn Perry Jennifer Smith | |
| DTC | Open | Teaching LSE at IUP | Members will share effective strategies for teaching English 100, 101, 121 and 202, especially strategies that foster engagement and support retention. | Lynn Shelly | lynn.shelly@iup.edu |
| CTC | Closed | Research and Writing | Support junior female colleagues as they balance maintaining an active research and writing agenda while teaching. | Erin Conlin | elconlin@iup.edu |
| DTC | Open | Information Literacy and Information Innovations Teaching Circle | To improve our effectiveness at teaching information literacy and information tools. | Maria Barefoot | barefoot@iup.edu |
| CTC | Open | Mindfulness in Higher Education Teaching Circle | The goals of the MHE Teaching Circle are to encourage to support, among its members, exploration of personal mindfulness-based contemplative practices, investigation of contemplative teaching strategies in higher ed through research, and, through discussion, reflection on personal practice and applications of mindfulness-based activities for learning in the classroom. | Daniel J. Weinstein Kim Weiner | gkbt@iup.edu kweiner@iup.edu |
| CTC | Closed | “Facilitating Student Learning Through Interprofessional | To develop and integrate simulation experiences to increase student learning | Pao Ying Hsiao | pyhsiao@iup.edu |
| DTC | Open | Improving Nursing Students' Clinical Judgment | Identify teaching-learning activities to improve nursing students' clinical judgment. Discuss challenges related to clinical judgment. Implement improvement measures related to clinical judgment. | Taylor Edwards | t.edwards@iup.edu |
| CTC | Open | APSCUF Newer Faculty Teaching Circle | Rachel Fox | rporter@iup.edu | |
| DTC | Closed | Healthy Teachers |
| Kristy Chunta | kchunta@iup.edu |
| CTC | Open | Online Teaching and Learning | To learn and share ideas and experiences related to online teaching and learning. | Carrie Bishop | cbishop@iup.edu |
| DTC | Closed | Psychology Department Teaching Circle | To provide a forum for more senior and less experienced members of the Psychology Department to share their teaching experiences, practices, and initiatives. | William James Farrell | wfarrell@iup.edu |
| CTC | Closed | Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Teaching | To facilitate dialogue across disciplines regarding teaching pedagogy, classroom management, and self-care. | Melanie Duncan | mduncan@iup.edu |
| DTC | Open | General Chemistry Department Teaching Circle | To improve the General Chemistry experience, particularly the laboratory component, of the students in the course(s). | Wendy Lou Elcesser | endyw@iup.edu |
| DTC | Open | Emerging Technology Teaching Circle | To explore the use of new and emerging technology while teaching and sharing scholarship. | John Chrispell | jchrispe@iup.edu |
| DTC | Open | Theater EDI DTC | To discuss and implement continued strategies to meet and surpass our departmental diversity goals in the classroom through curriculum, alumni involvement, and guest speakers. | Ethan Hollinger | eholling@iup.edu |
| CTC | Open | Fostering Diversity and Inclusion in Any Classroom | Learn how to appropriately and actively address diversity and inclusion in any class so that all students know they are welcome. | Anne Kondo | akondo@iup.edu |
| CTC | Open | Integrating Digital Design and Rapid Prototyping into the Classroom | This teaching circle will use computer- aided design software and digital fabrication processes such as laser cutting, CNC milling and 3D printing to explore innovative ways to incorporate this technology into the classroom. | Sharon Massey Sean Derry | |
| DTC | Open | Anthropology OER | Create an introductory anthropology Open Educational Resource | Andrea Palmiotto Lara Homsey-Messer | apalmiot@iup.edu lmesser@iup.edu |
| DTC | Closed | Assessment Planning and Revision | The teaching circle will help plan and analyze assessment data for the departments programs. | Gail Sechrist | gailsech@iup.edu |
| DTC | Closed | Mentoring Students Through Extracurricular Studio Art Practice | This teaching circle will explore effective strategies for mentoring undergraduate students through the development and creation of public exhibitions and events. | Sean Derry | |
| DTC | Closed | Getting Things Done Teaching Circle | The primary goal of this teaching circle is to help IUP faculty to learn principles of effective time management as they have been developed according to productivity | Gian Pagnucci | pagnucci@iup.edu |
| CTC | Open | Living-Learning Partners Teaching Circle | 1) to explore LLCs as a HIP by reviewing best practices as confirmed by research, 2) to support colleagues currently participating in or considering participating in LLCs at IUP by providing appropriate professional development | Dawn Smith-Sherwood | smithshe@iup.edu |
| DTC | Open | Safety Sciences | 1) Publish Results of Last year's Reflective Practice Study. 2) Invite members of Advisory Board for discussion on course updates for MS program. 3) Start a path forward with Advisory Board member(s) on safety visualization article. | Wanda Minnick | wanda.minnick@iup.edu |