Ties that Bind:
Faculty-Student Collaboration at WWU
This year the Innovative Teaching Showcase features faculty-student collaborations in courses and in research. Each featured instructor chose to collaborate with students in very different, sometimes nontraditional ways. These learning experiences are chronicled in this year's Innovative Teaching Showcase. Each instructor in this year's showcase worked closely with students at Western Washington University to do original scholarly research, collaborate on a new course, co-teach an existing course, or create new assessment tools linked to specified learning outcomes for a course.
To find out more about Western's tradition of collaborating with students, please read more about faculty-student collaboration at Western Washington University, written by Kris Bulcroft, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at WWU. |
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| Mark Bussell, a Professor in the Chemistry Department, and two undergraduates in Chemistry, Melissa Pease and Autumn Burns, have worked collaboratively on original research designed to create cleaner burning fuels. |
Mike Mana, from the Psychology Department, spent a summer working with Kyle Nelson, an undergraduate student, to fine tune the assessment tools that he uses in his Topics in Physiological Psychology course. Beginning with developing learning objectives and learning outcomes, then moving through the design of assessment tools that could be used to improve the course, they dramatically changed the way the course was taught.
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| Dawn Dietrich, an Associate Professor in the English Department, and Tony Prichard, a graduate student in the English Department, have collaboratively taught English 364, Introduction to Film Studies. This collaboration has allowed them to model critical analysis of film for their students, and has greatly enriched the classroom experience for all. |
Joyce Hammond, a Professor in the Department of Anthropology, and two graduate students, Maria Hicks and Jason Miller, were co-developers and co-teachers of a new field methods course called Participatory Action Research. The collaborative course revolved around students entering into research with people in the community to investigate questions community partners identified as important. By developing shared research and working cooperatively with others to create desired changes, students are better prepared for their future careers. |
Text-only versions
of each showcase are also available. |
