Teaching Circles

Teaching circles provide (usually) three faculty members the opportunity to observe each others’ classes and talk about teaching in an informal setting. Participants receive a stipend of $500 for participating. Generally, faculty create their own teaching circles, but the LTC can also assist with matchmaking. Teaching circles can be among faculty in related disciplines, or they can include faculty in different disciplines. Some of the most successful teaching circles have involved faculty who might seem to have very little in common in terms of the types of courses they teach.

If you would be interested in participating in a teaching circle — whether you have already identified partners or if you want help making connections — email the LTC director. 

Previous Teaching Circles

2024-25

Learning From Colleagues Across Divisions

 In this teaching circle, colleagues from History, Educational Studies, and the QRC, with a range of tenures at Carleton, will participate in reciprocal teaching observations and discussions. Our goals are to learn new pedagogical strategies, participate in an interdisciplinary community of teaching practice, and reflect on the epistemology and assumptions of our own disciplines.

Lin Su Winton, Director of the Quantitative Resource Center and Lecturer in Biology
Susannah Ottaway, Laird Bell Professor of History
Anitia Chikkatur, Professor of Educational Studies

2023-24

Anastasia Pantazopoulou (Classics)
Rebecca Terry (Math & Stats)
Chris Saladin (Digital Arts & Humanities)

Gao Hong (Music)
Lauren Visel (Music)

Bereket Haileab (Geology)
Gretchen Hofmeister (Chemistry)
Jay McKinney (Cognitive Science)
Sarah Meerts (Psychology and Neuroscience)
Jay Tasson (Physics)

Annie Bosacker (Biology)
Colleen Carpenter (Religion and ENTS)
Victoria Morse (History)

2021–22

Victor Almeida (Economics)
Sarah Kennedy (Classics)
Sarah Lahasky (Music)

Brooke McCorkle (Music)
MurphyKate Montee (Math)
Anya Vostinar (Computer Science)

2019–20

Andrea Mazzariello (Music)
Kim Huynh (Chemistry)
Ryan Terrien (Physics & Astronomy)
Paul Petzschmann (European Studies)

  • LTC blog post about this teaching circle, including a podcast by the participants

George Cusack (Writing Across the Curriculum)
Charisse Burden-Stelly (Africana Studies & Political Science)
Gisel Flores-Montoya (Psychology)
Baird Jarman (Art History)

2016–17

Kristin Bloomer (Religion)
Anita Chikkatur (Educational Studies)
Anna Rafferty (Computer Science)

Juliane Schicker (German)
Sandra Rousseau (French)
Kevin Wolfe (Religion)

2015–16

Jessica Keating (Art History)
Shaohua Guo (Chinese)
Prathi Seneviratne (Economics)

2014–15

Thabiti Willis (History)
Constanza Ocampo-Raeder (Anthropology)
Kent Freeze (Political Science)

2013–14

Heidi Jaynes (P.E.A.R.)
David Liben-Nowell (Computer Science)
Kelly Connole (Art)

2012–13

Sarah Meerts (Psychology)
Jason Decker (Philosophy)
Sherri Goings (Computer Science)

Andy Flory (Music)
Cherlon Ussery (Linguistics)
Julia Strand (Psychology)

2011–12

Tsegeye Nega (ENTS)
Aaron Swoboda (ENTS and Economics)
Dan Hernandez (Biology)

2010–11

Peter Balaam (English)
Susan Jaret-McKinstry (English)
George Shuffelton (English)