Shulman to speak at Quarterly Forum on Teaching and Learning

Lee Shulman, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, will be the featured speaker at the upcoming Quarterly Forum on Teaching and Learning at the University.

He will speak on The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Implications for Undergraduate and Graduate Instruction. The forum will be held from 3:30 to 5 p.m. March 18, in the Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. If you plan to attend, please RSVP with your name and department to Madelle Quiring, 543-6588 or email rsvp@cidr.washington.edu.

The scholarship of teaching should be a public process, said Shulman in a recent article on the topic. To improve what’s happening in classrooms and to be able to help teachers, all teachers must be willing to make public for their peers everything from their classroom plans to what, in the end, students have learned. Teachers must then critically review the work of their peers.

“Without such scholarship, the profession of teaching cannot advance in ways that best serve out students’ needs now and in the future,” Shulman wrote.

Shulman has been president of the Carnegie Foundation, a research and policy center primarily devoted to strengthening the country’s colleges and schools, since 1997. Shulman also is Stanford’s Charles E. Ducommun professor of education and a professor of psychology.

The Quarterly Forum is co-sponsored by the Center for Instructional Development and Research, the Graduate School, Faculty Council on Instructional Quality, UW Teaching Academy, Undergraduate Education, College of Education, and the Graduate and Professional Student Senate. ¶