1. 2007 Academic Affairs Faculty Symposium Unicoi State Park and Conference Center March 30 -31, 2007 Classroom Instruction Breakout Group Report Bill Barstow, Facilitator

2. Thanks to: Norris Armstrong Butch Atwood Dave Chatterjee Nelson Hilton Nadia Kellam Peggy Kreshel Chuck Kutal Svein Oie Kathrin Stanger-Hall Fran Teague

3. Seven Concerns:

4. 1. Give more than lip-service to value of teaching at R1

5. 2. Student study skills

6. 3. Engagement– professor’s enthusiasm, knowledge, invention crucial

7. 4. Concern about colleagues who slight teaching

8. 5. Assessment— Class size a major deterrent

9. 6. Class withdrawals, adds – Advising?

10. 7. Give more than lip-service to value of teaching at R1

11. Ten Recommendations:

12. 1. More than lip-service in valuation of teaching

13. 2. BoR: “Support and reward all faculty …. Improving their own teaching so as to model effective teaching practices”

14. 3. Departments should develop new rubrics and explore new methods of evaluating teaching

15. 4. Teaching Academy / CTL to disseminate actively teaching resource information— programs on current research about teaching and student learning

16. 5. Endorse Faculty Learning Communities – participate!

17. 6. Offer intensive FLCs for faculty on effective teaching and student learning -- incentives

18. 7. Mini-grants for teaching projects— Revise ‘Learning Technology Grants’?

19. 8. More new faculty to reduce class size

20. 9. More advisors, professional and faculty

21. 10. More than lip-service in valuation of teaching