SCHEDULING TEACHING & LEARNING PROGRAMS FOR 2008-2009?

James Rhem, Ph.D., executive editor of the National Teaching and Learning FORUM is available for speaking engagements, including:

The Teacher in the Movies

Everyone carries an image of the teacher within them. Just as everyone brings "baggage" to a relationship, every new teacher starts out on his or her career path toting notions of what a teacher is like and what a teacher does and what teaching in college is all about. Where do these images come from? From the teachers we`ve known and been taught by, certainly, but also from collective cultural ideas of the teacher too. This hour-long presentation traces the archetype of the teacher as reflected in and portrayed by movies produced in the last 60 years from Goodbye, Mr. Chips to Mr. Holland`s Opus and beyond. Touching on 15 movies in all, the presentation will explore the public idea of the teacher and its private reality as we each carry part of it into our work. The archetype of the teacher is explored along three broad thematic lines׃  generativity, authority, and community.

Thinking, Writing, and Publishing about Teaching and Learning

What does it take to think, write, and publish well about teaching and learning? As an editor and writer dealing with these matters for over twenty years, James Rhem has clear ideas and sensible advice about putting your thoughts and experience as a teacher into clear and useful prose. James will work with your faculty to help them clarify what they want to say as well as why they want to say it and how to say it best. When it comes to "SoTL," he's been there from the beginning. Let him help your faculty get into the game.

Ask about seminars or conversations with faculty on other current teaching and learning topics.

Inquire today about scheduling opportunities.
Call (608) 255-4469 or email: jrhem@chorus.net.