Spring 2024 Consultation Opportunities
Schedule a consultation this spring with Susannah McGowan or Nancy Chick.
Susannah McGowan is an external consultant this semester with the the Center for Teaching and Learning. She is the director of curriculum transformation initiatives at The Red House at Georgetown University, an educational research and development innovation hub within the university. She liaises regularly with multiple schools, departments, and partners units to redesign curricula, courses, and implement program evaluation to support the student experience.
As an educational developer spanning the past two decades, she welcomes conversations on assignment, course, or departmental curricular design, assessment of student learning, and/or the successful integration of technology to support student learning. She is also available to support faculty and staff in scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) research projects. Susannah's SOTL research interests include inclusive teaching practices, active learning, assessment, and academic hope.
Schedule an appointment with Susannah.
Nancy Chick is an external consultant for the CTL this spring. Nancy Chick is a SoTL scholar, scholarly teacher, and faculty developer. She has authored and co-authored numerous articles and book chapters on the results of SoTL projects and on the field of SoTL. From 2011 through 2020, she was the founding co-editor (with Gary Poole) of Teaching & Learning Inquiry, the journal of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL). From 2019-22, she served on the ISSOTL Presidential team and (with Chng Huang Hoon) as ISSOTL Co-President during 2020-21—at the height of the pandemic. She is currently the Director of the Endeavor Foundation Center for Faculty Development at Rollins College (Winter Park, FL).
Nancy earned her Ph.D. in American literature from the University of Georgia and has taught courses on American literature, women’s and gender studies, how learning works in higher education, literary pedagogy, and feminist pedagogy. Nancy’s SoTL research interests include disciplinary teaching and learning, the intermediate stages of learning, and the field of SoTL itself.
Please contact Nancy if you would like to discuss assignment, course, or curriculum design, assessment of student learning, or other areas of teaching and learning. She loves conversations about disciplinary pedagogies, transparent teaching, making students’ thinking visible, lesson study projects, and the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL).
Schedule a consultation with Nancy.
