SLIDES FROM DR. STEWART ROSS KEYNOTE PRESENTATION AVAILABLE HERE 

Wednesday, August 26, 2015
8:30 am - 1 p.m.
Eberhard Conference Center 
Pew Grand Rapids Campus

Whether deep, significant, transformational, or transformative, teaching and learning are about growth and perpetual change. How can faculty create learning environments and craft activities that foster change in students and promote learning that transcends the classroom? This conference will describe a framework for designing significant learning experiences and provide concrete examples of the framework’s application. The opening presentation will be given by Dr. Stewart Ross, currently a senior member of Dee Fink & Associates, and the founding Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Minnesota State University, Mankato (MSU). He holds a Ph.D. in Music Education from Northwestern University.

The opening session will be followed by examples and discussion of how transformative teaching practices are being applied on our own campus. Highlights will be shared by:

• Kurt Ellenberger, Professor of Music, Frederik Meijer Honors College
• Julie White, Affiliate Professor, Writing
• Chasity Bailey-Fakhoury, Assistant Professor, Special Education, Foundations, and Technology 
• Susan Harrington, Assistant Professor, Nursing
• Nancy Schoofs, Professor, Nursing
• Mary Bair, Associate Professor, Special Education, Foundations, and Technology
• Judy Whipps, Professor, Liberal Studies and Philosophy 
• Danielle Lake, Assistant Professor, Liberal Studies

Join us for these presentations, conversation, and an exhibit of campus resources for faculty. As always, we will raffle several new teaching and learning books and announce our fall programming, including book discussion groups.

Book Raffle
The following books will be on display during the conference and participants will have the chance to enter a book drawing. Winners will be announced at lunch.

• Discussion in the College Classroom: Getting Your Students Engaged and Participating in Person and Online, Jay Howard, Wiley, 2015

• Interactive Open Educational Resources: A Guide to Finding, Choosing, and Using What’s Out There to Transform College Teaching, John Shank, Wiley, 2014, (eBook)

• The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom, 3rd Ed., Stephen Brookfield, Wiley, 2015

• Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide, Linda Suskie, Wiley, 2009, (eBook)

• Contemplative Learning and Inquiry Across Disciplines, Gunnlaugson, Sarah, Scott, SUNY Press, 2014, (eBook)

• Specifications Grading: Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty Time, Linda Nilson, Stylus, 2014

• Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty, James Lang, Harvard University Press, 2013, (eBook)

• Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine, 2014

• Using Reflection and Metacognition to Improve Student Learning: Across the Disciplines, Across the Academy (New Pedagogies and Practices for Teaching in Higher Education), Matthew Kaplan, Stylus, 2013, (eBook)

• Getting Started With Team-Based Learning, Jim Sibley, et al., Stylus, 2014

• Paths to Learning: Teaching for Engagement in College, Barbara Tobolowsky, editor, National Resource Center, 2014 

*(eBook): These texts are available through University Libraries as an eBook. Hardcopies of all texts are available through the Pew FTLC Library, as well.