Events Spring 2024 CTL Preview 12 Jan 202412 Jan 2024 We are organizing a Spring 2024 schedule of CTL events, programs, and collaborations with campus partners that invites all to engage in professional development across a range of issues and…
Inclusive Pedagogy… Retrieval Practice: Remembering Student Names 10 Jan 202410 Jan 2024 An inspired teaching tip for remembering student names on the first day of class and across the first couple weeks. This comes from the learning science and memory scholar, Dr.…
Workshops Campus Free Speech and Inclusion: PEN America Workshops 10 Jan 202425 Jan 2024 Creating Campus for All: January 18, 2024 PEN America Resources PEN America Campus Free Speech Guide PEN America Principles PEN America Resource Library Additional Readings and Resources Advancing Academic Freedom…
Inclusive Pedagogy… Ungrading: Attendance and Participation 4 Dec 2023 Ungrading and Alternative Grading, critical conversations and strategies for rethinking and broadening learning assessment beyond traditional grades, have been circulating through higher ed for some time. Some recent publications, and…
News… The Hashtag Syllabus 7 Nov 20236 Feb 2024 We are excited to share the news and pedagogical insights of a recent publication by our colleagues Meghan Grosse (Chair of Communication and Media Studies) and Sara Clarke-De Reza (Chair…
News Navigating Difficult Conversations: Strategies from the Writing Center 6 Nov 20236 Nov 2023 Washington College Teaching and Learning in the News! A discussion with Washington College Writing Center tutors and Director of the Writing Center, Dr. Rachel Rodriguez, published by the University of…
Inclusive Pedagogy… Midterm Check: Supporting Growth 2 Oct 202324 Oct 2023 As we approach the mid-point of the semester, is it too late to make changes? Not if we approach teaching and learning with a growth mindset in which change (for…
Peer Observation… Formative Feedback and Peer Observation 8 Sep 202321 Sep 2023 The FORMs of Formative Feedback Cromwell Center for Teaching and Learning Workshop on generating formative feedback by using the WAC Peer Observation Form. Peer-Observation-Form-WACDownload F: forward-looking. What are you working…
Learning Communities Learning Community: Works in Progress 8 Sep 20235 Sep 2023 As part of the Cromwell Learning Community focused on our own writing/scholarship/creative work, I am organizing a discussion group that complements the Writing Group led by Rachel Rodriguez and explores…
Resources… Finding the Right Journal for Your Teaching and Learning Article 7 Sep 20238 Sep 2023 Are you looking for the right journal for a teaching and learning article you are working on (or dreaming about)? Below are three resources that can help you better understand…
Awards… Distinguished Teaching: Bin Song 2 Sep 20232 Sep 2023 Cromwell Center for Teaching and Learning celebrates Bin Song, Washington College Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Religion, on receiving the 2023 Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award. You can hear the thoughtful…
News… Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work 31 Aug 2023 In the news.... This post by our World Languages and Cultures colleagues David Hull, Nicole Grewling, and Martin Ponti, and former colleague Kitty Maynard, was published in Faculty Focus. Read…
Learning Communities Alternative Grading and Ungrading 25 Aug 202313 May 2024 Our Cromwell Learning Community focused on alternative grading practices and principles (also called "ungrading") will hold an initial conversation over lunch in Hodson dining hall on Wednesday, September 27, 11.45 am…
Innovation… Op-Ed: AI and Inquiry 16 Aug 202319 Aug 2023 The introduction to Sean Meehan's August 16, 2023 Inside Higher Ed op-ed, "Why Aren't We Asking Questions of AI?" "Since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, many questions have…
Inclusive Pedagogy Decolonizing [Syllabi]: What Does it Mean? 9 Aug 2023 There has been increasing discussion about decolonization in education: decolonizing syllabi, decolonizing pedagogy, decolonizing curricula, decolonizing higher ed, etc. We have gathered some resources about what decolonizing is (and is…
