Every month the Johnson Center will highlight worthwhile reading on teaching, a text that faculty might wish to bookmark for future exploration and that is available in the Johnson Center Library.

by Wilbert J. McKeachie and Marilla Svinicki
Review by Richard Russell
McKeachie’s Teaching Tips is a classic text now in its thirteenth edition with advice for teachers in higher education. Its primary audience is new teachers, with a variety of concrete tips on basic teaching issues such as course preparation, lecture and discussion techniques, assignments, and grading.

Kris Stuempfle, who completed her Ph.D. at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, joined the Gettysburg College Health Sciences Department in 1997. She quickly had a very positive impact. Her expertise in Human Anatomy and Physiology, the very foundation of the Health Sciences curriculum, immediately increased the scientific rigor of many upper-level courses. Furthermore, she added breadth and depth to the program with new courses such as Environmental Physiology and Chronic Disease. Professor Stuempfle, however, always continues to seek ways to improve her courses despite ongoing positive feedback from her students. She expressly attended a pedagogical conference to learn how to use case studies in the classroom, a welcome addition because so many students in the Health Sciences Department will be going into the medical field. But it is not simply Kris’s students who benefit from her knowledge and experience. Colleagues new to the department do as well. Kris is always ready to mentor new faculty and to share her teaching materials with those less experienced so that they, too, may find the same success that she has had.
We are now accepting Johnson Creative Teaching Summer Fellowship and Johnson Creative Teaching Fellowship applications. The deadline for submission is Friday February 8th.
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Wednesday, May 15
Spring Workshop
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
JCCTL, in conjunction with the
Provost office, will offer a one-day
workshop on assessment.
Details forthcoming.
Friday, February 8
"In the Classroom" Discussion
FYS/FYE: Enriching The First Year Experience
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Breidenbaugh Hall, 112
Thursday, February 21
Luncheon
Case Conference: Q and A About Classroom Dilemmas
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Penn Hall Lyceum
Friday, March 1
"In The Classroom" Discussion
Academic Honesty
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Breidenbaugh Hall 112