Dec 11
Collaborative Teaching across Disciplinary Divides: Challenges and Opportunities
Facilitators: Baird Jarman, Professor of Art HIstory & Matt Whited, Professor of Chemistry
Stipend: $100 for eligible participants
Liberal-arts pedagogy often construes undergraduate majors as providing depth, while breadth stems from various curricular-exploration requirements. This common paradigm, however, fails to model cross-disciplinary collaboration, a skill needed for most real-world challenges. This session is for any faculty members interested in practicing collaborative classroom teaching that connects disparate fields. What are best practices and common pitfalls to collaborative teaching between diverse subjects? How can the daunting task of co-teaching in conjunction with faculty members from rather different departments lead to new pedagogies, new models of instructorship, and new learning outcomes? This session will feature a panel of Carleton faculty who have taught collaborative courses, using very different approaches and modalities. After a brief description of new curricular-innovation funding available at the college, the second half of this session will discuss conceptual and organizational issues often arising with collaborative teaching, such as designing classes that count toward multiple majors or that target different student audiences. You need not join the second session on this topic to participate. This session is sponsored by an NEH Connections grant, the Humanities Center and the STEM Board.
Participants must register.