Distinguished Teaching Career Award
Distinguished Teaching Awards
walle conoly Professor of Art
Russ Frohardt Assistant Professor of Psychology
Courses: Beginning Painting, Intermediate Painting, Advanced Painting, Beginning Drawing, Color and Design, Life Drawing
Courses: Behavioral Neuroscience, Learning and Cognition, The Biological Basis of Human Behavior, Chemical Dependency Issues, Theories of Personality
Current scholarly project: “Besides teaching, I draw and paint. This semester I’m spending more of my time working on a new painting.”
Current scholarly project: The role of intracranial amphetamine administration on paced mating in female rats; the effects of killer whale calls on the swimming behavior of Pacific salmon in southeastern Alaska.
Best teaching moment: “Having ex-students tell me I’ve had a positive impact on their lives.”
Best teaching moment: “Teaching my first student to successfully complete brain surgery on a rat.”
Worst teaching moment: “Not being properly prepared in giving a new assignment. Very embarrassing!”
Worst teaching moment: “Having one of my students pass out during an oral presentation in my class.”
Favorite thing learned from a student: “Enthusiasm! Also, I love that students can be so open and trusting of what you think and have to say. It certainly makes you think more responsibly about what you’re saying.”
Favorite thing learned from a student: “The hip-hop stylings of the rap act Sweatshop Union.”
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To further advance teaching innovation, the CTE has teamed with Instructional Computing in exploring new technologies such as blogs and wikis that can improve the classroom experience. Instructional Computing and the CTE are also piloting “clickers,” instant-feedback systems that capture student responses to questions in seconds. As the CTE pursues these next steps, Sievers says the key will be maintaining the distinctive culture and social vision of the Congregation of Holy Cross. After all, says Sievers, “that’s what makes a St. Edward’s teacher a St. Edward’s teacher.” ■
Catherine rainwater Professor of English Courses: Nineteenth-Century American Novel, Turn-ofCentury and Early Modern Novel, Native American Literature, Literary Criticism, American Literature Surveys, Honors Program course in Controversies in Public Art Current scholarly project: An essay concerning the representation of American history in Native American writing.
Worst teaching moment: “When students don’t bother to read the assignments.” Favorite thing learned from a student: “I once learned from a student how to cut vegetables into flower shapes.”
Rebecca marino, ’10
Best teaching moment: “When students say they have changed and/or opened their minds about something I’m teaching.”
Julie Sievers, director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, plans a workshop on peer learning, one of the ways the center helps the faculty members at St. Edward’s teach even better.
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