Making Teaching Community Property

Preface--Russell Edgerton; Introduction; 1. Teaching Circles. Starting the Conversation; Setting a Scholarly Tone Teaching Circles in the History Department at Kent State University--John Jameson; Fostering Collective Responsibility for Student Learning Teaching Seminars in the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Mathematics Department--Charles Burnap and Miriam Leiva; Learning Together An Online Faculty Conversation About Online Student Conversation at Rio Hondo College--Susan Obler; 2. Reciprocal Visits and Observations. Opening the Classroom Door; Reciprocal Classroom Visits An Experiment in the Temple University History Department--William Cutler and Howard Spodek; The Teacher Observation/Peer Support (TOPS. Program at California State University-Dominguez Hills--Kathleen McEnerney and Jamie L. Webb; The Featured Faculty Program at Eastern Michigan University byDeborah DeZure; 3. Mentoring. Teachers Teaching Other Teachers; A New Faculty Mentoring Program in the Stanford English Department byDavid Halliburton;The Faculty Tutorial Program at Saint Olaf College--Jonathan Hill; The Issue of Supply Fostering Senior Faculty Leadership at The College of Saint Catherine--Marilou Eldred; 4. A Focus on Student Learning; Interviewing Each Other's Students in the Legal Studies Program at the University of Georgia--Peter Shedd; Classroom Assessment as a Context for Faculty Conversation and Collaboration at California State University-Long Beach--Susan Nummedal; Making Students More Active Agents in Their Learning TQM in the Syracuse University School of Business--Frances Zollers; 5. Portfolios. Putting the Pieces Together; Inventing a New Genre The Course Portfolio at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse--William Cerbin; Developing a Course Portfolio in Math A Report From the University of Nebraska-Lincoln--Steve Dunbar; 6. Team Teaching and Teaching Teams; Teaching Teams in the Math Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln--Steve Dunbar; A Team Approach to Course Design and Teaching in an Integrated Arts and Humanities Course at Alverno College--Kevin Casey; Coordinated Studies A Model for Faculty Collaboration and Team Teaching in a Consortium of Washington Campuses--Jean MacGregor; Team Teaching About Teaching the Disciplines The Pedagogy Seminar at Millersville University--Barbara Stengel; 7. Collaborative Inquiry and Pedagogical Scholarship; Collaborative Inquiry in the Teaching of Writing Theory and Practice at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln--Joy Ritchie; Collaborative Inquiry in an Early Childhood Education Course at the University of Wyoming--Jane Nelson; A Collaborative, Comparative Study of Student Learning in Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison--John Wright; 8. Departmental Occasions for Collaboration; The Pedagogical Colloquium Focusing on Teaching in the Hiring Process in the Stanford University History Department--Richard Roberts; A Professional Development Program for Graduate Students Fostering Collaboration in the Writing Program at Northern Arizona University--Geoffrey Chase; The Departmental Teaching Library A Mathematics Course File at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte--Charles Burnap; 9. Intercampus Collaboration and external Review of Teaching External Peer Review of Teaching A New Effort in the Chemistry Department at IUPUI--David Malik; Piloting Long Distance Interviews With Students as a Potential Component of the External Peer Review of Teaching--Jere Morehead; Conclusion. From Peer Collaboration to Peer Review; About the AAHE Teaching Initiative; About the AAHE's Peer Review of Teaching Project.