CID Summer 2005 Convening: Developing Effective Teachers

Convening Report

This Snapshot presents information following the July 2005 convening at the Carnegie Foundation. This convening emphasized strategies various departments and disciplines use to help graduate students develop as effective teachers. These included mentored teaching opportunities, scaffolded TAships in which students assume more responsibility over time, and courses that emphasize pedagogy. We are interested both in tried-and-true strategies and innovations that are being explored as part of the CID.

Participant List

Poster session
Poster session

Convening Agenda and Advance Assignments

To prepare for the convening each campus team (one faculty member and one graduate student, representing the leadership team from the department) had three homework assignments:

1. Interview the the campus team from another department that was coming to the convening. The interview partner was assigned.

2. Prepare a presentation, using the keep tool, on one of four topics. Each campus team could indicate which topics they preferred to present, and final assignments were made to balance the presentations.

3. Prepare a poster summarizing the department's work for the CID.

Convening agenda

Interview assignment

Poster assignment

Snapshot presentations made by departments
Link to the site on the El Cid gallery that includes final snapshots each department made.

Sample of Data from Carnegie Surveys
Sample of Data from Carnegie Surveys

Handouts

During the convening participants were asked to complete "developmental trajectory worksheets." Analyzing how students grow and learn as teachers during their graduate program. This activity was preceded by two presentations, one of which incorporated what participants learned from their pre-convening interviews. The other presentation, introduced the idea of developmental trajectories.

"What's your theory?" plenary presentation
PowerPoint presentation made by Carnegie staff.

Developmental trajectories presentation
PowerPoint presentation made by Carnegie staff.

Developmental trajectory worksheet

The scholarship of teaching and learning
PowerPoint presentation made by Pat Hutchings.

Natasha Speer describes next steps
Natasha Speer describes next steps

Next Steps

At the end of the convening each campus team presented their plans for the next steps when they return to campus.



Contact Information

The CID team includes (left to right) project director, George Walker, senior scholars Laura Jones and Chris Golde, research scholar Andrew Bueschel and research assistant Kim Rapp. Emily Stewart is not pictured.

Contact the CID at 650-566-5107, cid@carnegiefoundation.org


Maureen Estevez and Rob Drolet debate poster
Maureen Estevez and Rob Drolet debate poster

Photos


Becky Robinson at poster with Kim Rapp
Becky Robinson at poster with Kim Rapp


Phillip Mayo and George Walker discuss poster
Phillip Mayo and George Walker discuss poster


Judith Burstyn at poster with erica Whitaker and Cindy Corbett
Judith Burstyn at poster with erica Whitaker and Cindy Corbett


Maureen Estevez at poster with Kim Rapp and Pat Hutchings
Maureen Estevez at poster with Kim Rapp and Pat Hutchings


Todd Hoagland describes next steps
Todd Hoagland describes next steps


Peter March describes next steps
Peter March describes next steps





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