Hello Teaching-Learning Academy Colleagues,
Please excuse the long “To” list, but isn’t it an impressive one?? I promise to divide it up for future mailings, but I just wanted to get out a quick welcome message to you and to give you a preview of the wonderful list of colleagues joining us (already) this quarter in TLA.
I also want to remind you that our first TLA dialogue groups begin meeting this Wednesday, Oct. 4 (at 12/at 3) and this Thursday, Oct. 5 (also at 12/at 3) in the Canada House Fireplace Room (ok to enter through the handicapped entrance facing the parking lot next to the PAC).
Dialogue groups meet officially for only 50 minutes, so it is important to be prompt. You are welcome to stay longer and continue the conversations, but some folks will need to leave at ten to the hour, so please do whatever you can to arrive by (or before) the top of the hour.
Here is the agenda for this first week:
Introduction to TLA (10 mins)
Opening Survey (15 mins.)
Paired Introductions (10 mins)
Whole Group Introductions (15 minutes)
Also, the TLA is sponsoring an all-campus forum with a guest speaker, Richard Gale (Director of CASTL, the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) this Thursday. Western has been working with CASTL for the past 8 years to promote the inclusion of students as scholars of learning, and Richard will speak about WWU’s role as well as the value of this “collective scholarship on learning.” There will also be an opportunity to begin opening up this year’s BIG TLA question (more about that in the dialogue groups). You are all especially invited to Richard’s forum, and I hope you will spread the word, too. Richard Gale Forum is this Thursday, Oct. 5, 4-5:30 p.m. in the Solarium, Old Main 590.
Let me know if you have any questions, won’t you.
Hoping to see you in the Fireplace Room/the Old Main Solarium this week,
Carmen
Carmen Werder, Ph.D.
Director, Teaching-Learning
Director, Writing Instruction Support
Affiliated Faculty, Communication
360-650-7329