Each year, the Dean of the College selects one member of the faculty to receive the McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Excellence in Teaching Award. The award honors the memories of Reid H. McLain ’27, Clair McTurnan […]
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At the 2018 Opening Workshop, organized by members of the the Teaching and Learning Committee (Crystal Benedicks, Adriel Trott, Scott Himsel, Sujata Saha, Karen Quandt, Tom Pearson, Aaron Elam and Neil Schmitzer-Torbert), nearly 80 […]
During the 2017-19 academic year, the Teaching and Learning Committee hosted a series of conversations about challenges that we face in our teaching, and strategies that we could apply to address those […]
2018 – McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Excellence in Teaching Award Winner: Brian Tucker Each year, the Dean of the College selects one member of the faculty to receive the McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Excellence in Teaching Award. The award […]
Summary of our Fall 2017 lunch discussions At our Opening Workshop in August 2017, hosted by the Teaching Learning Committee, we started a process of reflection on the challenges that we have […]
2017 – McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Excellence in Teaching Award Winner: Michelle Pittard Each year, the Dean of the College selects one member of the faculty to receive the McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Excellence in Teaching Award. The award […]
In February, Rick Warner and I traveled to Ann Arbor to meet with members of the GLCA/GLAA Consortium for Teaching and Learning (CTL) to talk about the progress of the new website for the […]
In our October Teacher Talk, Drs. Crystal Benedicks and Jill Lamberton described their work with the Wabash Liberal Arts Immersion Program (WLAIP), a summer program which brings a group of entering Wabash freshmen to […]
Read More - Teacher Talk – The voices of first-year students
Prof. Martin Madsen (Associate Professor of Physics), presented at the 2016 Ides of August on the results of his study of the path that our students take through their four years at Wabash. […]
Prof. Ethan Hollander (Associate Professor of Political Science), presented at the 2016 Ides of August on his sabbatical work, and also his experiences as a student during sabbatical (in Prof. Jane Hardy’s […]
Read More - Class notes: Things, expected and otherwise, I learned taking a colleague’s class
In a recent post on Chronicle’s Vitae site, David Gooblar offered four tips to help students make use of an opportunity to improve their learning in exams and assignments. Three of these […]
Read More - Teaching Tips: 4 tips to help students learn from their mistakes
The 2016 Teaching and Learning August Workshop, “Inclusive Pedagogy,” will be held on Thursday, August 18th, from 8:30am-1pm at the Crawfordsville Country Club. A light breakfast will be available at 8:30am, and our first session will start at […]
