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The Teaching Committee is responsible for the following:
● TRAINING and RESOURCES– Attend training for incoming teaching chairs on the last morning of the convention prior to the 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 papers 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 / Carolyn Smith Casertano / carolynsmith@arizona.edu
Vice-Chair / Breann Murphy / bmurphy5@jsu.edu
Committee Member / Melissa Adams / Appalachian State / adamsmb2@appstate.edu
Committee Member / Adrienne Wallace / GVSU / wallacad@gvsu.edu
Committee Member / Kate Stewart / Jacksonville State University / kdstewart@jsu.edu
Committee Member / Amanda Sams / University of Mississippi / asams@olemiss.edu
Committee Member / Besty Emmons / University of Nebraska-Lincoln / eemmons3@unl.edu
Committee Member / Debra Berthard-Caplick / dbethar1@kennesaw.edu
Committee Member / Jeff Ranta / jranta@coastal.edu
Committee Member / Worapron Chanthapan / California State University, Long Beach / worapron.chanthapan@csulb.edu
Committee Member / LIndsay McCluskey / SUNY Oswego / lindsay.mccluskey@oswego.edu
Committee Member / Arien Rozelle / Syracuse University / arozelle@syr.edu