PETAL Speaker Series: Susanna Calkins - Evaluating Teaching: Benefits, Boundaries, and Alternate Strategies
Tuesday, April 5, 2022 2:30pm to 3:30pm
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The Platform for Excellence in Teaching and Learning is delighted to welcome Susanna Calkins of Northwestern University’s Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching as our spring featured speaker for the PETAL Speaker Series. Dr. Calkins will discuss the history of course evaluations, and explore meaningful, inclusive, and effective approaches to evaluating teaching that have greater potential to support UM’s teaching advancement visions.
Susanna Calkins is the Director of Faculty Initiatives at the Searle Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning at Northwestern University. She holds a doctorate and master's degree in history from Purdue University and a master's degree in education from Northwestern University.
Before joining the Searle Center in 2003, she was an assistant professor of history at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. Her recent projects and publications have focused on inclusive teaching, conceptions of teaching, student learning and online teaching. Her teaching interests include learning and teaching in higher education, the history and philosophy of higher education, early modern history, and world history. She is a co-PI on several grants, including a multi-institutional NSF-IUSE grant focusing on creating an online course for inclusive teaching in STEM and a NRT grant to help the Center for Synthetic Biology develop an innovative graduate curriculum in synthetic biology. She is the co-author of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: The Reflective Professional (Sage, 2009) and Reflective Teaching in Higher Education (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020), as well as over thirty peer-reviewed publications related to learning and teaching in higher education.
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