 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
||
|
Keynote Events
Annemarie Curd is a first-year student at Western Washington University. She plans on becoming an elementary school teacher. She has participated in the Teaching-Learning Academy, the main student voice initiative on campus, for multiple quarters. She has also participated as a Writing Research Fellow working with an education faculty member in an undergraduate research project on the influences of interactive journaling. Chris Manor is a senior philosophy major at Elon University where he has been an active participant in the scholarship of teaching and learning. He co-authored "Foundations of Student-Faculty Partnerships in SoTL: Theoretical and Developmental Considerations" with Stephen Bloch-Schulman, Kelly Flannery, and Peter Felten in Engaging Student Voices in the Study of Teaching and Learning (Stylus, 2009). Daniel Espinoza-Gonzalez is a sophomore at Western Washington University majoring in English literature and working towards a B.A. and a teaching certificate. He would like to teach at the secondary level. He has been involved in Student Voices and the Teaching and Learning Academy at WWU since 2008 and is a member of the Student Voices Leadership Advisory Board. He is also on the rugby team at Western and a Resident Advisor in the dorms. He says that he appreciates all the opportunities he has been given and hopes to effectively give meaning to student voices. Connor Powell is a junior at WWU studying special education and elementary education. He has been involved in the Teaching-Learning Academy and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning work for three years and is a member of the Student Voices Leadership Advisory Board. He has traveled extensively including completing a semester at sea and living on a sailboat for two years. He is particularly interested in the study of autism. Shanyese Trujillo is a junior at Western Washington University majoring in Special and Elementary education with endorsements in both Spanish and English with a minor in Latin. She is in her third year working in the area of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and is a member of the Student Voices Leadership Advisory Board. She notes that she was introduced to this idea in her first year at WWU and has been excited ever since about encouraging student voices and collaboration with faculty. She looks forward to expanding an understanding of this collaboration with everyone.
|
|
|
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 (WWU) 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 is 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.