Sharing Pedagogy & Supporting Scholarship

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Fall 2023 Shared Scholarship

Spring 2023 Shared Scholarship

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George I. Alden Excellence in Teaching Award

2023 Recipients

• Catherine Bue-Hepner, Biology, Visiting Assistant Professor Excellence in Teaching Award
• Christina Foley, Business Administration and Economics, Adjunct Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award

• Equity Syllabus Review Workshops – May 25 & 31, June 1 & 6
• Beyond Pedagogy: Infusing Equity into Your Syllabus, Assignments, and Course Content  (1 hour video-based course) – Access Anytime 2023-24; course notes
• Equity through Practice and Policy: Modeling at the Institutional, Departmental, and Course Levels Academic Affairs Retreat – August 31
• Integrating DEIJ: Debriefing, celebrating and moving forward, talking about what’s going on in the future – Unity Day, September 26
• Equity Coffee House – October 25
• How Can Universities Empower Adult Learners? (20 minute video-based course)- Access Month of November
• Universal Design for Inclusive Learning – November 16
• Facilitating Success: A Guide to Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom  – January TBD
• Leveraging the Neuroscience of Trauma for Informed Teaching – January TBD
• Why is Intercultural Competence Important and How Can it Improve my Teaching? – January TBD
• Collaborative Learning Approaches that Support Neurodiverse Students – February TBD
• Equity Coffee House – March TBD

The Worcester State University-Worcester Art Museum(WAM) Partnership Program, supported by the Office of the President and University Advancement, makes funding available to faculty to develop curricula for new or existing courses that bring WSU students to the Worcester Art Museum.

WAM grants of $900 for each project will go to up to four competitively selected, peer reviewed proposals in the form of faculty stipends to support preparation and planning.

2023 Recipients

• Brittany Jeye, Psychology
  Project – Sensation & Perception: Exploring Visual Principles through Art
• Joshua D. Koenig, History and Political Science
  Project – American Popular Art and Architecture and the Worcester Art Museum
• Laura Reynolds, Earth, Environment, and Physics
  Project – Developing Materials for a “Geology of Art” Final Project for Introductory Geology Students
• Francisco Vivoni, Sociology
  Project – Place, Identity, and Displacement in the Worcester Art Museum

This program is supported by the generosity of Lt. Col. James F. Sheehan ’55.

A recent WSU news story covering the 2023 projects.

Currents in Teaching and Learning is a peer-reviewed electronic journal that fosters exchanges among teacher-scholars across the disciplines.