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Community membership is made available to pre-promotion tenure-track and teaching, clinical professor, or lecturer (TCPL) faculty early in their careers.

This community assists members in developing their teaching abilities by participating in a yearlong series of differentiated activities that contribute to and culminate in pedagogy-based projects related to teaching and learning. They work with experienced faculty who co-facilitate and collaborate with the Teacher Scholars in community building.

ATS participants receive $1,000 in professional development funds for their participation and work in the community.

Objectives

The objectives of the Advancing Teacher Scholars Community are to provide experiences with the following:

• Innovative Teaching and Learning: Engage in pedagogical conversations with other colleagues using research on teaching and learning to inform the design of a teaching project.
• Assessment: Develop a greater understanding of the uses of formative and summative evaluation of teaching and student learning.
• Community: Build interdisciplinary connections to support early-career faculty who share an enthusiasm for teaching and learning.
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Enhance awareness around diversity that can lead to more inclusive classroom practices.

Criteria for Membership

• Commitment to quality teaching
• Sustained responsibility to diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Level of interest in the program
• Openness to new ideas
• Potential for contributions to the program
• Plans for teaching innovations

Activities

Advancing Teacher Scholars participate in activities and experiences for personal growth and classroom practice grounded in the scholarship of teaching.

Recent seminar topics include:

• Engaging students through open-ended questioning and discussion.
• Using assessment to evaluate teaching.
• Reflecting on the role of identity and positionality in teaching.
• Creating more inclusive classroom spaces.
• Developing expertise in multiple modalities of learning.

In November, ATS members attend the Lilly Conference on College Teaching, where they interact with nationally known teacher-scholars.

Assessments/Outcomes

Advancing Teacher Scholars pursue self-designed teaching projects that emerge from the yearlong activities and experiences.

They design and implement a classroom intervention, assess how it impacted student learning, present findings to the campus community, and receive feedback to further inform their projects.