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The Teaching Committee is responsible for the following:
● TRAINING and RESOURCES– Attend training for incoming teaching chairs the last morning of the convention prior to term of office.
● INITIATIVES– Strive to arrange programming and document member accomplishments in the four areas of:
a. Curriculum – The philosophy, design and examination of issues, developments and trends in building curriculum.
b. Leadership – Organizational efforts to recognize and enhance good teaching, mentoring and ways of thinking about teaching and learning.
c. Course Content and Teaching Methods – Examining teaching techniques and strategies.
d. Assessment – Weighing the effectiveness of teaching.
● Distribute communications about teaching initiatives via the PRD listserv, newsletter and/or homepage.
● CONVENTION– Actively encourage and advise members on the submission of teaching related panel proposals. Report the top three teaching paper and student paper submissions/acceptance data to the head. Serve as moderator/discussant for the presentations of teaching papers and/or student papers at the convention. Encourage authors of the top three teaching papers to submit their manuscripts for priority processing with JPRE.
● OUT-OF-CONVENTION– Actively encourage members to report out-of-convention teaching accomplishments (papers, presentations, innovations, etc.). Compile and report these accomplishments to the head for the annual report. Encourage pedagogy, in general, and submissions to JPRE.
Committee
Chair / Amanda Weed/Kennesaw State University/aweed2@kennesaw.edu
Vice-Chair / Kim Marks Malone/University of Memphis/ksmarks@memphis.edu
Committee Member / Adrienne Wallace/Grand Valley State University/wallacad@gvsu.edu
Committee Member / Amanda Bradshaw/University of Mississippi/asbrads1@olemiss.edu
Committee Member / Cessna Winslow/Tarleton State/cwinslow@tarleton.edu
Committee Member / Breann Murphy/Jacksonville State University/bmurphy5@jsu.edu
Committee Member / Kate Stewart / Jacksonville State University / kdstewart@jsu.edu
Committee Member / Gina Luttrell / Syracuse University / rmluttre@syr.edu
Committee Member / Stephanie Madden / Penn State University / szm962@psu.edu
Committee Member/ Debbie Davis/ Texas Tech University/ debbie.davis@ttu.edu