SoTL @ UMAINE
The Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL) is a systematic approach of investigating teaching and learning in higher education. SoTL involves the formation of a specific research questions, collecting data and evidence with appropriate methodologies, data analysis and dissemination of results to the public. Distinct about SoTL is emphasis on improving teaching and/or learning. While scholarly teaching is the personal reflexive act of inquiry into one’s own teaching, SoTL involves original research questions and the dissemination of research results with a broader audience.
MEET THE 24-25 SoTL FELLOWS
Liliana Herakova
Associate Professor & Director of Communication Education
Discipline (s): Communication Studies
What are your SoTL interests?
TA preparation, mentoring, anti-oppressive and decolonial pedagogies, and critical approaches that examine how we make present and negotiate our identities and power relations in learning situations.
Project Title:
Silent In-Difference: A Collaborative Autoethnography on the Meanings, Practices, and Impacts
of Silences in Learning Contexts
Heather M. Falconer
Associate Professor
Discipline (s): Writing Studies
What are your SoTL interests?
As a writing studies scholar, I am deeply committed to work and inquiry that serves a larger purpose. Primarily, this larger purpose has been educational and disciplinary reform as it relates to inequity. My research focuses on the intersections of culture, discipline, and pedagogy, with a special emphasis on discursive identity development and disciplinary enculturation.
Project Title:
Aligning Writing Concepts Across the Curriculum
JULIA McGUIRE
Senior Lecturer
Discipline (s): Biology
What are your SoTL interests?
I am currently interested in: cross-disciplinary scholarship and collaboration to improve disciplinary learning; accessible teaching and learning; citations literacy; building better relationships (TAs, students, MLAs, instructors) in the classroom as a success and retention tool.
Project Title:
Aligning Writing Concepts Across the Curriculum
Jennifer Newell-caito
Senior Lecturer
Discipline (s): Molecular & Biomedical Sciences
What are your SoTL interests?
I am interested in investigating the effects of CURE laboratory modules, ungrading, and metacognition on student belonging, growth-mindset, and self-directed learning.
Project Title:
A Efficacy of Ungrading in Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences on Belonging, Self-Directed Learning, and Growth-Mindset
stephanie burnett
Associate Professor
Discipline (s): School of Food & Agriculture
What are your SoTL interests?
I am interested in practical strategies to improve comprehension in hands on classes or labs as well as mindfulness to manage test anxiety in the classroom.
Project Title:
Mindfulness Intervention to Reduce Test Anxiety
Additional fellows:
Sheena Sheffield
Mario Guevara
Melanie Gao
Colleen Marzilli
Holly White
Lynn Atkins
BECOME A CITL SoTL FELLOW!
CITL is excited to support faculty wanting to develop as SoTL scholars via the CITL SoTL Fellows program. Interested faculty (of any rank), post-doctoral researchers and graduate students are encouraged to learn more and apply.
(Applications for our first cohort closed May 17th 2024.)