Teaching and Learning Scholars
The Teaching and Learning Scholars program provides an opportunity for deep inquiry into the intersection between your students’ learning experience, the fundamental concepts and assumptions of your discipline, and the body of scholarly work that is relevant to your teaching practice. You will become part of a cohort that meets every other week to reflect, discuss, and receive feedback on your ideas for improving your teaching and your students’ learning.
You will also develop and carry out a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project, which is an inquiry-driven, evidence-based systematic investigation related to your students’ learning. Because this is a cohort program, you will have an opportunity to share your investigation-in-progress with your Scholar colleagues in order to better make sense of the evidence you gather and refine your work so that it can be shared more broadly in presentations and publications.
PROGRAM BENEFITS:
- Join a growing community of Northeastern educators engaged in scholarly investigation of teaching and learning.
- Conduct research within your own teaching that can be shared through scholarly conferences and publications.
- Receive mentorship and have an opportunity to become a mentor to other educators.
EXPECTATIONS AND TIME COMMITMENT:
- Attend a day-long kickoff gathering online in early January.
- Attend all meetings online during the academic year (75 minutes, every other week). Each meeting will also involve pre-work, such as readings and exercises.
- Complete a series of project planning, writing, and peer feedback tasks over the spring and summer.
- Use an electronic portfolio to plan, respond to feedback, journal, and store works-in-progress (private within the Scholars group). Provide substantive and timely feedback for your Scholar colleagues within their portfolios.
- Conduct a systematic, evidence-based SoTL study of your students’ learning in the Summer or Fall of 2023.
- Participate in CATLR events to share your insights with others at Northeastern.
- At the end of your Teaching and Learning Scholars experience, author a short essay that shares your work publicly with the Northeastern community and share your work at CATLR’s annual conference.
- After completing the program, be willing to mentor other educators who are interested in learning about SoTL and conducting their own SoTL projects.
STIPEND:
Teaching and Learning Scholars will receive a stipend of $1,000 per person for full participation in the program.
ELIGIBILITY:
The Teaching and Learning Scholars Program is open to full-time faculty and co-curricular educators who teach for-credit courses at Northeastern University. Scholars meetings take place virtually, and we welcome applicants from across all of the Northeastern network.
Most people accepted into the Scholars program are previous Teaching Inquiry Fellows, a sequence which CATLR recommends. Teaching Inquiry Fellows is a year-long cohort program in which participants draw upon learning science research to integrate or strengthen their evidence-based teaching practices.
ABOUT THE SCHOLARS PROCESS:
In Teaching and Learning Scholars, we ask that you enter the program with questions and curiosities about your students and their learning, as opposed to a defined idea for a project (see application details below). In Winter/Spring 2023 you will work with your Scholar colleagues to consider the origin of your questions and curiosities, and the literature that might inform your line of inquiry, as you bring your Scholars project into focus.
You will carry out your plan in Summer or Fall 2023. This project could be a close examination of a specific aspect of student learning in your course (what is), a structured investigation of a particular teaching approach (what works), or experimentation with new methods (what could be).
We especially encourage questions/curiosities that are grounded in one or more priorities of Northeastern’s academic plan:
- The co-creation of learning experiences with learners and/or communities
- Learning that integrates DEI within and across disciplines
- Learning across global contexts
- Personalized and/or lifelong learning
- Experiential learning (e.g., connecting curricular and CoOp/service/co-curricular learning, learning grounded in real world challenges, projects that generate artifacts that can be shared beyond the course)
APPLICATION PROCESS AND SCHEDULE:
Deadline for applications to the 2023 Cohort for the Teaching and Learning Scholars Program: Friday, November 18, 2022 at 5:00pm ET
The form will request the following information. Essay portions of the application have a 250-word limit.
- A description of the course in which you will do your SoTL study, with confirmation that the course will run in Summer or Fall 2023.
- In the course you intend to focus on in your Scholars investigation, what are three challenges or puzzlements you encounter regularly in regard to your students’ learning? In what ways are these challenges directly related to your discipline or domain? In what way are these challenges inherent in learning across domains? NOTE: Where possible, please connect your ideas to the priorities listed above.
- What evidence of student learning do you currently gather in relation to these challenges? What does that evidence look like, what do you do with it, and what does it tell you? What kinds of richer, deeper evidence would you like to gather?
- (For people who have participated in other CATLR cohort programs) How might the concepts you have explored in other CATLR programs inform the focus of your Scholars investigation?
- What do you think you would bring to, and how would you benefit from, the Teaching and Learning Scholars community of practice?
- Your CV or resume
- A letter of support from your department chair or supervisor.
View the 2023 Teaching and Learning Scholars Application
If you have any questions, please email Gail Matthews-DeNatale.
Get in Touch
Deadline for applications to the 2023 Cohort for the Teaching and Learning Scholars Program: Friday, November 18, 2022 at 5:00pm ET. For more information, please contact Dr. Gail Matthews-DeNatale with any questions you may have.
Download the 2017-2018 Faculty Scholars Program essay booklet.2017-2018 Faculty Scholars Program Booklet
Congratulations to the 2021 Scholars
Brooke Hoger
Office of the Provost
Amy Lantinga
College of Professional Studies
Constantine Mukasa
College of Engineering
Enrique Moreno
College of Science
Previous Scholars
2020 Cohort
View the 2019-2020 Scholar Essays.
Bret Keeling
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
John Sangster
College of Engineering
David Tamés
College of Arts, Media and Design
Anne van De Ven-Moloney
College of Science
Elizabeth Zulick
College of Professional Studies
2018-2019 Cohort
View the 2018-2019 Scholar Essays.
Alessandra Di Credico
College of Science
Mary Lynn Fahey
Bouvé College of Health Sciences
Kelly Garneau
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Dave Hagen
College of Professional Studies
Michelle Laboy
College of Arts, Media and Design
Andrew Mackie
Bouvé College of Health Sciences
Laurie Nardone
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Desislava Raytcheva
College of Science
Katy Shorey
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Mark Sivak
Arts, Media, and Design and the College of Engineering
2017-2018 Cohort
View the 2017-18 Scholars essays.
Natalie Bormann
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Lucy Bunning
College of Professional Studies
Adam Cooper
College of Science
Rebecca Riccio
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Stephanie Sibicky
Bouvé College of Health Sciences
2016 Cohort
Carole Bell
College of Arts, Media and Design
Lucy Bunning
College of Professional Studies
Sue Freeman
College of Engineering
Lorna Hayward
Bouvé College of Health Sciences
Joshua Hertz
College of Engineering
Hubert Ho
College of Arts, Media and Design
Jackie Isaacs
College of Engineering
Michael Jaeggli
College of Engineering
Marissa Lombardi
College of Professional Studies
Vasiliki Lykourinou
College of Science
Veronika Maliborska
College of Professional Studies
Missy McElligott
College of Science
Janet Monagle
Bouvé College of Health Sciences
Laura Mylott
Bouvé College of Health Sciences
Russ O’Haver
D’Amore-McKim School of Business
2015 Cohort
Gail Begley
College of Science
Kathleen Gonso
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Gregory Goodale
College of Arts, Media and Design
Lorna Hayward
Bouvé College of Health Sciences
Joshua Hertz
College of Engineering
John Kimani
College of Engineering
Barbara Larson
D’Amore-McKim School of Business
Marissa Lombardi
College of Professional Studies
Missy McElligott
College of Science
Shan Mohammed
Bouvé College of Health Sciences
Oyindasola Oyelaran
College of Science
Brian Robison
College of Arts, Media and Design
Chirag Variawa
College of Engineering
Belinda Walzer
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
2014 cohort
Qinghong (Ann) Cai
College of Professional Studies
Leslie Day
Bouvé College of Health Sciences
Lori Gardinier
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Jose Martinez-Lorenzo
College of Engineering
Casper Harteveld
College of Arts, Media and Design
Lorna Hayward
Bouvé College of Health Sciences
Ann McDonald
College of Arts, Media and Design
Missy McEliigott
College of Science
Bridget Smyser
College of Engineering
Shan Mohammed
Bouvé College of Health Sciences
Courtney Pfluger
College of Engineering
Brian Robison
College of Arts, Media and Design
Kathryn Schulte Grahame
College of Engineering