Faculty Focus: Teaching in the STEM

PETAL recently hosted a Brown Bag Lunch featuring Dr. Bret Webb (Civil Engineering) talking about a teaching workshop he attended this summer on applying innovative teaching techniques to undergraduate engineering education.

Since the material he discussed would be of value to far more faculty than attended the event, I asked Dr. Webb to write a brief article on his experience. We also hope to repeat the event in the Spring so that more people can attend.

Click here to read more.

Teaching and Learning in the Literature

Maryellen Weimer, the editor of The Teaching Professor, made a recent post to her blog about the importance of sharing teaching ideas with colleagues.

She makes several fine points, but the most important one is that colleagues are the richest and most available source for new information about teaching.

Sometimes that information is shared in the form of workshops (like the ones we host here in PETAL), but it is more frequently shared in informal conversations in the hall or parking lot.

The main point, however, is that we should all make a point to do more sharing.

Click here to read her blog post.

PETAL Events for October 2008