Here's a look back at the 2001 Symposium...

Registration, Refreshments, & Conversation

Opening Comments: Provost Tully

Plenary Session and Roundtable Discussions:

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

Coordinators: Dayton Reuter (Landscape Architecture), Gary Scott (Paper Science Engineering)

Coordinators: Stephen Keller (Paper Science Engineering), Ross Jacobs (IDEaS), Robin Hoffman (Landscape Architecture) & Jane Verostek (Library)

Coordinators: Dudley Raynal (Environmental and Forest Biology) & Chuck Spuches (IDEaS)