Date: January 21, 2000

Welcome Back!

Members present: Barkley, Will, Spragge, Saterfield, Martinez, Hansen, Watkins.

Logistics

New Leadership:Sandi Watkins will lead the group for the 2000 year.

Members: All will continue with exception of Bea Cashman. Kurt Gravenhorst will continue (yea!) this year and we will juggle our meeting time so as not to conflict with his editorial demands. Mike McHargue, the Sabbatical Radical, continues to have conflicts for our next meeting, he'll be at the Assn. of CCC Administrators, but says he is still very interested and will attend when possible.

Meeting times: The usual Friday meeting time (10:30-2:00) seems to be the best for the group. Our next meeting is Friday, Feb 25, 2000, 10:30-2:00 at the Hilton Garden Inn.

It was agreed that we will tape our meetings to record our discussions for minutes and posterity (and possible publication).

Review Since We Last Met

We have been allocated space at the Center for Innovation. We discussed visiting the site and/or meeting there as a possibility later in the year.

Long-term goal of the Teaching Academy Campus Program:

"The long-term goal of the program is to foster a national network of campuses that have established teaching academies aimed at providing a structure, support and forum for the scholarship of teaching and learning."

Members received a Teaching Academy Campus Program Handout featuring Foothill College to review, especially Part II Study and Action (p 12) - our focus for this year.

• Review of National Organizations/Progress
• Acronyms we should know:
• CASTL - Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning is the overall organization
• SOTL- Scholarship on Teaching and Learning
• There are 3 main areas of interest under CASTL.
• Campus Conversations
• At present there are thousands of them, but some will be designated as official Carnegie Campus Conversations. A Web Center and online discussion forums are also available.
• Carnegie (formerly Pew) Scholars
• Center for Research in the Community College (formerly Discipline Associations)
• Activities/Conferences coming up:
• AAHE Faculty Roles and Rewards: Scholarship Reconsidered (Feb. 2000)
• Elizabeth and Sandi will attend.
• AAHE National Conference (March 2000)

New Members

As of this writing, Jose Nava and Kate Jordahl have been contacted about becoming members, but as yet, I have not heard back from them.

Study and Action 2000: possible subjects of discussion and/or implementation:

• Follow up/current status of Learning Inventory Project
• Tess will incorporate this into her presentation for next meeting.
• Move from talking to more specific research:
• Curriculum Transformation
• Course Portfolios
  Portfolios were decided on as one of the main topics for our research this year with possible publication as one outcome.
• Elizabeth suggested 2 books which might be of interest:
• Understanding by Design (Curriculum)
  Grant Wiggins / Jay McTighe
  Association of Curriculum and Design
  (Note: I have asked that a copy of this be ordered for each of us.)
• Faculty Guide for Moving Teaching and Learning to the Web
  Tom Fryer
• Course portfolios are an emerging research methodology.
• Our Theme: Research Model Development
  Develop a research model by examining several different courses. Discuss and critique those courses and then apply the model as a template to other courses.
• Rich, Tess, and Elizabeth volunteered courses they teach and will prepare a presentation next meeting which will detail what enduring core knowledge students should leave their courses with, how they are currently assessing it and give an example of one activity currently in use.
• Tess: English 1A : Freshman Composition (f1f)
• Rick: Statistics (online and f2f)
• Elizabeth: Music (blended)
• Portfolio Design
  Instructor goals, activities, assessment measures, student examples and responses, analysis of student work, and interpretation from other instructors and peers.
• Hypertext versions are available (Randy Bass GWU)
• Backward Design
• Look at deep learning, articulate goals, question how you know when it occurs, and what activities lead to deep learning?

Other areas which we will/may explore:

• Follow up/current status of Internet Student Survey (Roxanne Medrinos)
• Implications of Technology and other changes of online teaching and learning.
• Outreach to Foothill Community
• Campus Conversations during College Hour
• Campus Conversations during May 5 Flex Day
• Web site / List Serve for additional discussion of relevent topics (student built?)
• Communications "Clearing House" with other Scholarship of Teaching campus activities.
• How to address the Digital Divide?
• It was thought that this subject would be woven throughout our various discussion during the year.
• Emerging areas of interest in Campus Program work (from Program Update):
• Disciplinary Styles in the Scholarship of Teaching: Mary Taylor Huber
• Undergraduate Research

Tentative Meeting Agenda: Feb 25, 2000

Welcome New Members
Introductions
Presentation: Tess, Rick and Elizabeth

• Discussion