1. REFRAMING THE VALUE OF TEACHING
NW Bio 2018
REFRAMING THE VALUE OF TEACHING
Boise State University
Department of Biological Sciences (DBS)
Amy Ulappa, Juliette Tinker, Jennifer Forbey
VISION – Create an engaging curriculum aligned with the AAAS Vision and Change core content and competencies recommendations.
MAIN GOAL to attain our vision– Quantify innovative teaching and increase the value of teaching
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Strengths, Leverage & Allies
AAAS Vision & Change 2011 recommendations
BSU Center for Teaching & Learning
NW PULSE resources
NSF WIDER PERSIST grant #
DBS 2017 (5yr) NSF S-STEM grant $
BSU College of Arts and Sciences Dean
COPUS in-class assessments and student surveys 1,2
Assessed faculty values (values card sort) 3
ACTIONS
Revised DBS program level learning outcomes (Figure 3) & created curriculum map.
Revised Tenure and Promotion Guidelines to include the Boyer Model 4 and increase teaching value.
Vision & Main Goal
Curriculum aligned with AAAS Vision & Change with integrated student experiences.
Teaching innovation valued for Tenure and Promotion
Figure 1: Links between resources, actions and BSU DBS achievements.
Figure 3: Program level learning outcomes changed from 10 to 5 in spring 2018, assessment completed in April 2018.
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES?
PRODUCTS & SUSTAINABILITY
- Concrete program level learning outcomes (Fig. 3) and T & P policy changes
- Continued assessment of the DBS “sense of community & learning” via NSF S-STEM grant
Time is always a barrier so leveraging our institution’s focus on program level learning outcomes and T & P revisions deadlines worked well to move this discussion forward.
We have identified areas that are strong in our curriculum and can now make plans to improve based on our assessment.
FUTURE GOALS
- Revise curriculum based on assessment of DBS program level learning outcomes and create annual DBS Teaching Award
Figure 2: DBS faculty at a retreat discussing curriculum structure, learning outcomes & aligning with AAAS Vision and Change recommendations.
$ NSF DUE #  Gateway Scholarships in Biological Sciences, #  NSF DUE# WIDER PERSIST, BSU Center for Teaching and Learning
This work was supported NSF RCN UBE award #