University of Colorado

President's Teaching Scholars Program

Scholars’ Engaged Learners Project Descriptions

Since the inception of the program, the President’s Teaching Scholars on all campuses have been engaged in projects to enhance learning and interactive pedagogy. The scholars have also taken opportunities to mentor new faculty and early career faculty in their departments, schools, and colleges. The President's Teaching Scholars as scholars of teaching and learning and as scholarly teachers propose to enhance their project work to include faculty peers on their campuses. To that end, we offer the Project Gallery – one-page depictions of current projects; even projects that have been completed will evolve over time as refinements, fine grain judgments, and enhancements are made. We invite you to email the scholar whose project is being illustrated in the Project Gallery by clicking the PTSP Directory. The scholars wish to be involved with faculty peers in the broader intellectual issues of learning and teaching, thereby becoming a member of faculty learning community.

Mary Ann Shea – Director

Index
1999 – Present

Gene Abrams – Interdisciplinary 401: The Honors Senior Roundtable

Brian Argrow – Mentoring



Bob Averbach & Don Kleier – Mentoring Program in Endodontics



Dan Barth – Improving Undergraduate Education in the Neurosciences

Marty Bickman – Director of Graduate Student Teacher Education and Denver Summerbridge



Bill Briggs & Mitch Handelsman – Studies of Student Engagement


Doug Burger – Pedagogical Projects

 


Diane Conlin - Collaborative Learning, Study Abroad, and the Global Student

Fred Coolidge – Working memory and executive functions

Alex Cruz – Mentoring Students


Mike Cummings – Pedagogy Seminar

 & Community of Learning

Standley Deetz - Native Theory

Mike Eisenberg – The Computational World


John Falconer – Making thermodynamics more visual and engaging students in the classroom


Laura Goodwin – Mentoring Program


Paul Harvey - Measuring Classroom Learning

Andrea Herrera - PTSP Project Description

Lonnie Johnson - Oral Health Education in Rural Colorado

Clayton Lewis – Redeveloping Undergraduate Computer Science
 & Colorado Learning Assessment Project

Stevem Medema - The Impact of Writing on the Student Performance in Economics

Wes Morriston – Teaching with Technology Program and Mentoring


Stevem Pollock - Investigating the Gender Gap in Introductory Physics

Ed Rivers – “Course takes UCB students ‘beyond academic writing’”

Elizabeth Robertson - Reading Then and Now

NEW Diane Sieber - Assessing - and Addressing - Students' Online Identities

Mike Shull – Mentoring to new Assistant Professors and Development of a new Astronomy Major

Nort Steuben – Mentoring and Technology in the Classroom



John Taylor – CAPA, “Modern Physics”, and “Classical Mechanics”


Rick VanDeWeghe – Teaching Committee


Don Warrick – Director of Teaching Development for UCCS College of Business

Carl Wieman – Examining student attitudes about science and the learning of science.

Shelby Wolf – Report on Narrative Research & Creating Powerful Pedagogy with Preservice Teachers