This year, we invite you to explore with colleagues three new and challenging themes:
- Increasing our understanding of student learning in the disciplines we teach
- Engaging students as research partners in our quest to enhance teaching and learning
- Exploring alternatives, big ideas and challenging issues (ABC)
KEYNOTE EVENTS 
Tony Ciccone Anthony (Tony) Ciccone (Ph.D. SUNY/Buffalo) is Senior Scholar and Past Director of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Ciccone is also professor of French and director of the Center for Instructional and Professional Development at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Tony has authored a book and several articles on Molière, and two French language textbooks. He has presented the scholarship of teaching and learning nationally, provided chapters for Campus Progress and Creating a New Kind of University on doing SoTL work at the institutional level, and recently published his own SoTL work in a special edition of Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. Tony is past Director of the Wisconsin Teaching Scholars program, recipient of a Hesburgh Certificate of Excellence in 2005. He has received an AMOCO Award for Teaching Excellence and the French Teacher of the Year Award from the Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers. Currently, he teaches a Freshman Seminar, What's so Funny? Historical and Contemporary Notions of Comedy and Laughter.

Carmen Werder and students engaged in SoTL with their professors Dr. Carmen Werder directs the Teaching-Learning Academy (TLA) at Western Washington University and Writing Instruction Support (for faculty teaching writing across the disciplines). As Affiliated Faculty with the Department of Communication, she teaches a course on civil discourse that includes a practicum with the TLA. She was a Carnegie Scholar in 2005-06 and has been involved with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning since 1998. She was co-editor of Engaging Student Voices in the Study of Teaching and Learning (Stylus, 2009), as well as a contributing author, and has published and presented in multiple venues on student voices in SoTL.
SOMETHING NEW! Preconference Workshop and Lunch, Friday, October 1, 2010, 10:00am - Noon If the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning is a relatively new concept for you, consider attending a preconference workshop led by Maryville's SoTL Seminar Facilitator, Marilyn Cohn, and Co-facilitator Michael Kiener. This introduction to the basic goals and methods of SoTL will prepare you to enjoy and more fully participate in conference activities.
Workshop Topics
- What is SoTL? Definitions and examples .
- Benefits and challenges of SoTL: Findings from nine case studies.
- Developing a model for SoTL work that fits the culture of your campus.
- Getting started or sustaining the current effort on your campus.
- General registration: $300
- Discounted rate for groups (4 or more) from same institution: $225 per person
- Preconference workshop and lunch: $30
- student registration: $80
A block of rooms is reserved at the Marriott West. The reservation number is 1-800-352-1175. Identify yourself or your group as a member of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Maryville. Note that reservations need to be made by September 9, 2010 to receive the group rate of $69.00 per night (for single or double occupancy).
For more information: Tammy Gocial; sotlconference2010@maryville.edu