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“Optimizing Teaching and Learning: Strategies to Carry Out and Use Pedagogical Research (SoTL)”
This workshop will show participants how to best use the pedagogical literature to intentionally and systematically modify one's own teaching and measure the resulting changes in your students' learning. Using examples from across disciplines we will help participants surmount barriers to doing pedagogical research, plan out studies and ways to analyze findings, as well as ways to share the results. Designed for instructors at all levels in their career and ranging in experience with pedagogical research, we will modify our presentation to best fit the needs of the attendees and include a variety of topics including an outline of the defining characteristics of pedagogical research, a pragmatic guide on how to best use and do pedagogical research, best practices relating to key areas of teaching and learning, models of doing pedagogical research within various constraints (e.g., limited time and funding), and ethical concerns. Participants will have the opportunity to plan practical, useful projects for their own classes.
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Regan A.R. Gurung, Ph.D.
Professor of Human Development & Psychology
Chair, Human Development
Co-Director, UWGB Teaching Scholars Program
University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI 54311
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Regan A. R. Gurung is Chair of Human Development and Professor of Human Development and Psychology at the University of Wisconsin , Green Bay . Born and raised in Bombay , India , Dr. Gurung received a B.A. in psychology at Carleton College (MN), and a Masters and Ph.D. in social and personality psychology at the University of Washington (WA). He then spent three years at UCLA as a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Research fellow.
He has received numerous local, state, and national grants for his health psychological and social psychological research on cultural differences in stress, social support, smoking cessation, body image and impression formation. He has published articles in a variety of scholarly journals including Psychological Review and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin , and Teaching of Psychology. He has a textbook, Health Psychology: A Cultural Approach , relating culture, development, and health published with Cengage (now in its second edition) and is also the co-author/co-editor of four other books, Exploring signature pedagogies: Approaches to teaching disciplinary habits of mind (Gurung, Chick, & Haynie, 2009) , Getting Culture: Incorporating diversity across the curriculum (Gurung & Prieto, 2009) , Optimizing teaching and learning: Pedagogical research in practice (Gurung & Schwartz, 2009), and Culture & mental health: Sociocultural influences on mental health (Eshun & Gurung, 2009) . He has made over 100 presentations at national and international conferences.
Dr. Gurung is also a dedicated teacher and has strong interests in enhancing faculty development and student understanding. He is Co-Director of the University of Wisconsin System Teaching Scholars Program , has been a UWGB Teaching Fellow, a UW System Teaching Scholar, and is winner of the Founder's Award for Excellence in Teaching as well as the Founder's Award for Scholarship, UW Teaching-at-its-Best, Creative Teaching, and Featured Faculty Awards. He has strong interests in teaching and pedagogy and has organized statewide and national teaching conferences, is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, serves on the Div.2 (Teaching of Psychology) Taskforce for Diversity and is Chair of the Div. 38 (Health Psychology) Education and Training Council. He is also President-Elect (elect) for the Society for the Teaching of Psychology.
When not helping people stay calm, reading and writing, Dr. Gurung enjoys culinary explorations, travel, and avoiding political discussions of any kind.
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Beth M. Schwartz, Ph.D.
Thoresen Professor of Psychology
Assistant Dean of the College
Randolph College (formerly Randolph-Macon Woman's College)
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Beth M. Schwartz is the Thoresen Professor of Psychology and Assistant
Dean of the College at Randolph College. Dr. Schwartz received her Ph.D.
in cognitive psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo
and joined the faculty at Randolph College in 1991 where she teaches a
number of courses including Cognition, Research Methods, Introduction to
Psychology, and the Senior Research/Capstone Course. She is the founding
director of the Faculty Development Center on her campus. Dr. Schwartz's
research interests include children's memory development, eyewitness
interviewing techniques for young children, as well as various topics in
the field of the scholarship of teaching and learning. She has published
numerous articles, book chapters, edited texts, and has presented many
professional presentations in these fields. In 2000, Dr. Schwartz
received the Gillie A. Larew award for distinguished teaching at
Randolph College, and in 2005 she Schwartz received the Outstanding
Teaching and Mentoring Award from the Psychology-Law Society division of
APA.
Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Time: 2:00 PM – 5:45 PM
Cost: $35
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