Faculty Scholars Program | Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning Through Research

The Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning Through Research is pleased to announce that applications will be accepted for the 2022 cohort of the Faculty Scholars Program by December 2, 2021.

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. For the 2021-2022 cohort, special consideration will be given to questions/curiosities that are grounded in one or more of the following areas that support Northeastern’s academic plan.

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 (60 minutes, every other week). Each meeting will also involve pre-work, such as readings and exercises.
Complete a series of 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 2022.
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 2022 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 2022. 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
Inclusive learning
Global learning
Place-based learning
Personalization/modularity
Experiential learning

APPLICATION PROCESS AND SCHEDULE:

Deadline for applications to the 2022 Cohort for the Teaching and Learning Scholars Program: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. 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 2022.
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?
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.

Click here to access the 2022 Teaching and Learning Scholars application form:

Click Here to Apply

If you have any questions, please email Gail Matthews-DeNatale at [email protected].