According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, "The Carnegie Teaching Academy is a $6-million, five-year effort to create a scholarship of teaching and learning that will improve the quality of student learning and raise the status of teaching. It is funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts ($4.76 million) and The Carnegie Foundation ($1.24 million). . . . The Carnegie Teaching Academy has two goals, explains Pat Hutchings, Carnegie Foundation senior scholar, who will run the new project. 'First, we want to put forward new models of teaching that will foster deep and lasting understandings by students. Second, we want to raise the status of teaching by underlining its character as intellectual, scholarly work, deserving the time and attention of faculty."
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One of the three initiatives of the Carnegie Teaching Academy is the Campus Program, which Barbara Cambridge, Director of the American Association of Higher Education's Teaching Initiatives, describes: "The premise of the Campus Program is that many campuses have been intrigued by new ideas about teaching as scholarly work and by new practices that enact those ideas, including ongoing substantive conversations about teaching and learning, faculty investigations of their teaching practices, new ways of assessing the effects of powerful pedagogies, new forms for documenting teaching, and new rubrics and tools for gathering and reviewing evidence about teaching. To help such campuses build on and implement these ideas and practices is the aim of the Campus Program." (The Carnegie Teaching Academy Campus Program Booklet) Further information about the program is available at the Association's website, www.aahe.org under Teaching Initiatives, Campus Program Booklet. |
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On Geneseo's campus…. The Carnegie Teaching Academy's Campus Program offers the Geneseo community the opportunity to partake in a prestigious national debate about improving the effectiveness of college-level teaching. At the heart of the local program is what Raoul Arreola calls our "metaprofession" of pedagogy, valuing it as the subject of ongoing vital debate and programming on campus. Our Carnegie Program agenda starts with discussion about the scholarship of teaching and learning and about how we can develop formative and summative methods to support pedagogical development. That debate should lead us to consider how we can build rewards for the scholarship of teaching and learning into our evaluation system for both junior and senior faculty members. It should also help us in our preparations for the upcoming Middle States Accreditation and, by supporting and enhancing our teaching excellence, it will move us in the direction of fulfilling our vision "to become the premier public liberal arts college in the country." |