Welcome to the Teaching Scholar

SCU’s Faculty Development Blog

Here I and others (you, perhaps?!) will post on topics related to Faculty Development Program goals:

1. To help faculty become more effective teachers by exploring how to cultivate student learning
2. To support and promote faculty scholarship
3. To help faculty plan and manage academic careers and maintain work-life balance

Upcoming posts will include profiles of SCU Teaching Scholars (first up, Karen Fraser in Art and Art History and Katie Wilson in Engineering) and links to key resources on and off campus that might help you do the work you want to do–with your students, in your lab, in that article you’re working on, that grant you’re seeking, that equation you keep returning to, that new course you’re designing, that old course you’re rethinking, that conference presentation you’re preparing, that sabbatical proposal you’re drafting, that committee meeting you’re forgetting, those papers you’re not grading, well, you get the idea. We are all busy, doing many things we love to do, and some things we don’t like to do at all. Faculty Development aims to point you toward useful resources and keep you informed.