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Center for Instructional
Innovation and Assessment

INNOVATIVE TEACHING SHOWCASE

2011
2012
ISSUE 13

This year's Showcase theme, 'Empowering Peer Learning', honors WWU faculty who engage students by promoting collaborative learning and peer discussion.

THEME 

GARTHAMUNDSON
GARTH AMUNDSON, Professor in the Art Department, promotes collaboration amongst his students via social networking, dynamic critique of art projects, and a group effort for fundraising and submitting to professional exhibitions in the professional art world outside the classroom.


ANNSTONE
ANN STONE, Lecturer in the Finance & Marketing Department, incorporates a team learning project into her Brand Marketing class where each group crafts a "creative brief" of a brand and presents it to the rest of the students, each role-playing the part of creative marketing professionals and writing critiques.


JOSEPHGARCIA
JOSEPH GARCIA, Bowman Distinguished Professor of Leadership Studies, created a new course that fosters leadership skills in upper division undergraduates who, in turn, become mentors to one another in their shared role as instructors to other undergraduates in break-out sessions of a lower division leadership course.
When students work together on coursework, both inside and outside of the classroom, they learn more, think more critically, and gain an appreciation for diverse perspectives.

- Quoted in the 2010 National Survey of Student

Engagement (Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005; Gerlach, 1994)