Teaching Scholars Program Description
Kent State University is one of eight institutions of higher education invited to participate in the Ohio Teaching Enhancement for Junior Faculty coordinated by Miami University. Other institutions include: Bowling Green State University, Miami University, The Ohio State University, Ohio University, Sinclair Community College, University of Toledo, and Wright State University. The program on which this collaborative effort is based was developed over the last twenty years at Miami University. Miami's program was recognized nationally when it received the prestigious Theodore Hesburg Award in 1994 for "being the most effective professional development program in the United States in impacting undergraduate teaching and learning." The Ohio Teaching Enhancement Program provides a collaborative approach to enhancing undergraduate education through the work of faculty in their first five years of teaching in higher education.
The broad aims of the yearlong program include:
- enhancing undergraduate learning
- enhancing participants' teaching and learning
- building a community of scholars around teaching: locally, statewide, and nationally
The elements of the program for participants include:
- Participating in a yearlong program that focuses on teaching;
- The development of collegial relationships across disciplines;
- Two funded conferences on teaching: one in the fall at Miami University (the Lilly Conference on Teaching) and one in the spring in California (the Lilly West Conference on Teaching);
- A one course load reallocation in teaching during either the fall or spring semester of the project year;
- The opportunity to focus on and develop an aspect of teaching and learning during the program;
- Up to $200 and the possibility of further support for a teaching project during the program;
- Working with a faculty mentor of the participant's choice;
- Working with a student associate of the participant's choice;
- Developing a language and methods for the scholarship of teaching, both individually and as communities;
- An ongoing program where faculty members finishing their year in the program meet with new faculty beginning the program
Eligibility: Tenure track faculty members in their first five years of teaching at KSU
