This TLT-sponsored Faculty Learning Community is led by Dr. Noel Sloboda, associate professor of English at Penn State York. He is leading the group to consider the creative arts as an avenue to reflect on our teaching. Dawn Oswald (Library) Andrew Caldwell (Advising), Jen Nesbitt (English), Marcy Nicholas (English), Fred Haag (Art), and Suzanne Shaffer (Instructional Design) are exploring this topic with Noel.

We began our meetings on September 16th with a nice overview from Noel of our approach to reflective practice using poetry. In this first session, we explored lists as a poetic device, using the poetry of Tony Hoagland.

What kinds of lists can help us to reflect on or describe our teaching experiences?

List of excuses you get before the final exam:

List of reasons why you got into teaching:

Etc., etc., etc…