Events for New Faculty

If you are trying to carve out space for thinking/reading/writing (deep work), join  Write Watchers.
We meet on ZOOM every Tuesday and Wednesday, from 10 - 11:30 a.m. In each Write Watcher session, we set goals at the beginning and then reflect on what we accomplished at the end. In between, we mute our mics and do deep work, with other supportive faculty working alongside us.

Let’s Do Lunch is a faculty learning community centered around sharing new ideas, asking questions, and finding ways to take care of ourselves and our students as we navigate this new world of pandemic teaching and learning.

We meet at noon every Friday via ZOOM, and all are welcome.

If you are looking for some continuity in these days of uncertainty…

If you want to belong to a Texas State faculty teaching and learning community...

If you are seeking ways to provide compassion and self-care to you, your students, and your colleagues...

Then Let’s Do Lunch!

Zoom Link: https://txstate.zoom.us/j/138503158?pwd=STVqd3k4aWdVaTBydWZacTBiNXVtUT09

Topics vary each week. Visit our website for up to date information. www.facdv.txstate.edu…

These lectures and discussions will provide valuable, research-based expertise to students and faculty across multiple programs at Texas State University from the College of Education and the College of Applied Arts. The modernization of the world’s higher education system underlines the need to improve the quality and relevance of university and adult education by examining the design and delivery of study programs and addressing the needs for learning for an ever-increasing diversity of student populations. Towards these goals, we know that these presenters are reflecting deeply on teaching and learning, particularly in the area of transformative learning theory and practice and instructor-student relationships. As a Hispanic-Serving Institution located in the State of Texas, and one whose foundational mission began on teaching and learning as a normal college, this work is highly relevant to our university context and to issues that our students are preparing to address as education and organization development practitioners.

Dr. Monica Fedeli was a Fulbright Scholar to the Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy at the University of Georgia in 2020. She is Associate Professor in Teaching and Learning Methods and Organizational Development at the University of Padova, Italy. She has been Adjunct Professor at Boston University, at Michigan State University, at Julius Maximilians University of Wurzburg, Germany, and Visiting Professor at California University Berkeley, School of Education. She is Fulbright Scholar recipient at University of Georgia, College of Education for the year 2020. Her current research interests include: active teaching, participatory teaching and learning, faculty development at the Italian university and in international settings, university business dialogue, and professional development. She published more than 110 articles, books, and book chapters in variety of national and international journals, and book series.

Dr. Edward Taylor is Professor Emeritus of Lifelong Learning and Adult Education from Penn State University-Harrisburg. Formerly a public-school teacher and outdoor adventure educator, as a professor he has written extensively on transformative learning theory and teaching strategies that help facilitate change. Recognizing the importance of these strategies for teaching in higher education, he has worked internationally (e.g., Africa, Europe, Central America, Middle East) and at various universities in Italy with faculty across the disciplines focusing on innovative teaching practices (active learning) that foster teaching for change. Ed’s research focuses on several areas. As previously mentioned, he has spent much time studying transformative learning theory (TL), with a particular focus on synthesizing empirical studies as well as exploring major life change among historically marginalized groups, such as the impact of Farmer Field School in southwestern Africa (Uganda, Kenya) among farmer participants. A significant co-publication in this area of TL is Handbook of Transformative Learning: Theory, Research and Practice. A second area is in medical education through both offering medical faculty graduate courses at the College of Medicine at Penn State University and conducting research in assessment, teaching beliefs and project-based learning. The third area of interest is in the study of adult education in cultural institutions (museums, natural settings (parks), zoos, libraries) with a focus on learning and teaching in public places. A publication is area is a book titled Teaching in Public Places.