Students are not the only ones that are looking to learn and improve.\u00a0 Teachers will now have the opportunity to enhance their own abilities in the classroom.<\/p>\n
September 1, 2008, will mark the official launch of the Center for Teaching and Learning in building 14, room 301.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat the center is going to do is help faculty develop opportunities for professional development,\u201d says new Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, Dr. Kathy Rowell.<\/p>\n
Rowell has been at Sinclair for 13 years in the Sociology department and has many accomplishments on her resume.\u00a0 She has earned her BA and MA from Wright State University, along with a PhD from Ohio State University.\u00a0 In 2005, Rowell won the award for Outstanding Community College Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement of Scholarship and Education and the Carnegie Foundation.<\/p>\n
She has also been running the Honors Program at Sinclair for the last two years but will now concentrate on getting her newest challenge up and running.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re trying to help teachers here at Sinclair figure out better ways to help students learns,\u201d says Rowell.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s ultimately focused on student learning because that is why we are all here.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Center for Teaching and Learning will focus on faculty development but the outcome of that development is to increase student learning.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m hoping to involve students,\u201d says Rowell.\u00a0 \u201cWhat I would like to do is have students come by if they have seen something in a classroom that they think is a great idea.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rowell believes that teachers have to have continuing education in order to be effective in the classroom.\u00a0 The more that the faculty at Sinclair learns than the better they can develop themselves effective teachers.<\/p>\n
\u201cSinclair has lots of opportunity for teachers to learn more about teaching and learning, but we are going to have a concentrated effort now,\u201d says Rowell.<\/p>\n
Rowell reiterates that the Center for Teaching and Learning is not only for the continuing education of Sinclair\u2019s faculty, but also to help improve the education of Sinclair\u2019s students.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure students don\u2019t think about this sometimes,\u201d says Rowell.\u00a0 \u201cBut teachers have to have continue their education, too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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