Center for Teaching Excellence
Reflective Practice Teaching Circles 2023–24
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CTC = Cross-Disciplinary Teaching Circle
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DTC= Departmental Teaching Circle
- SA = Summer Academy Teaching Circle
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Table of current Teaching Circles. Table details if a Teaching Circle is DTC, CTC, SA, open or closed, a description, and name and contact information for facilitators.
| Type of Teaching Circle | Open or Closed | Name of Teaching Circle | Goals of Teaching Circle | Facilitator |
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| DTC | Closed | Effective Teaching, Mentoring, Challenges, and Goals: Present and Future | Share effective teaching strategies with TAs, established faculty, and temporary faculty. Mentor new TAs and temporary faculty. Identify challenges and share strategies to address them. Highlight the value of IUP resources and programs for new or established faculty. Provide an environment to share, develop, and expand pedagogical techniques and successes | Alida V. Merlo amerlo@iup.edu |
| CTC | Open | Big Ideas: Teaching Transformative Texts | To discuss the teaching of transformative texts in any course | Bryna Siegel Finer brynasf@iup.edu |
| CTC | Open | Engaged Learning Practices Teaching Circle | Review and utilize engaged learning practices from "Key Practices for Fostering Engaged Learning" by Jessie L. Moore | Mimi Benjamin mbenjami@iup.edu |
| CTC | Closed | Enhancing Learning of Students through Use of Interprofessional Simulation | To facilitate learning opportunities for students through the use of simulation experiences. | Pao Ying Hsiao pyhsiao@iup.edu |
| DTC | Closed | Nursing Student Feedback | To improve student satisfaction of faculty feedback | Janis Barner jbarner@iup.edu |
| DTC | Closed | Learner Burnout: Mindful Approaches to Support Student Success | 1) Explore sources of learner burnout in college students, 2) Identify mindful approaches to support student success, and 3) Implement changes in pedagogical practice to support student success | Meigan Robb mrobb@iup.edu |
| DTC | Closed | First-Year Faculty English Teaching Circle | To give first-year faculty in the English department a space to share strategies and experiences, and potentially publish articles together on our experiences. | Willa Swift Black w.s.black@iup.edu |
| DTC | Closed | Getting Things Done Teaching Circle | This circle studies how to apply time management principles to teaching and faculty work. | Gian Pagnucci pagnucci@iup.edu |
| CTC | Open | Back to Basics | This circle is for 1) sharing creative course management strategies, 2) establishing a more student-centered approach to teaching, and 3) providing support and guidance for newer faculty and those wishing to re-evaluate current teaching practices. | Janet A. Blood janet.blood@iup.edu |
| DTC | Closed | Psychology: To set aside a weekly time devoted to scholarly writing with accountability to the other group members. Department Teaching Circle | We are planning to focus our discussions on DEI issues related to our teaching. Many members of the Psychology Department have been engaged in learning more about how to support our students, how to include diversity in our teaching, and how to engage in our own self-improvement/reflection, and this teaching circle could be a really useful way to continue that momentum. | William Farrell wfarrell@iup.edu |
| CTC | Closed | Faculty Writing Group | To set aside a weekly time devoted to scholarly writing with accountability to the other group members. | Kelli Jo Kerry-Moran kjkmoran@iup.edu |
| CTC | Closed | Increasing Student Engagement in an Academic Makerspace | This teaching circle will explore ways to encourage student engagement in an academic makerspace, especially among students with little to no prior experience with technology or digital design and fabrication. | Sharon Massey smassey@iup.edu |
| CTC | Open | Exploring Equity-Minded Teaching | We will read, "The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching (Artze-Vega, Darby, Dewsbury, & Imad, 2023). We will connect synchronously and asynchronously to discuss, explore, and implement the strategies highlighted in the book and other related materials. | Jacqueline McGinty jmcginty@iup.edu |
| DTC | Open | Emerging Technologies For Teaching and Sharing Mathematics and Computer Science | Examine use of new and emerging technologies and how it can be used when teaching and sharing ideas and concepts. | Sam Grieggs jchrispe@iup.edu |
| DTC | Open | Language Teaching and Learning with Technology | To discuss the use of technology in language teaching and learning. | Shijuan Liu sliu@iup.edu |