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Center for Teaching Excellence


Peer Consulting - Who are the Peer Consultants?

Peer Consultants who are available to assist you are listed below.  The bullets relate to specific areas each Peer Consultant can help with.  If you need additional information please do not hesitate to contact the Center at 581-3472.

François Amar, Chemistry

  • Large class instruction

  • Active learning and technology

  • Interdisciplinary teaching

  • Writing across the curriculum

  • Peer-group team learning

  • Working with undergraduates on research & teaching

Mark W. Anderson, Resource Economics and Policy, Coordinator, B.S. Program in Ecology and Environmental Sciences

  • Team-based learning

  • General education outcomes assessment

  • Student values change in classroom

  • Rubrics for evaluating student work

Sandy Caron, Family Relations, Education and Human Development

  • Teaching large classes

  • Interactive exercises

  • Development of a syllabus

  • On-line courses

  • Clickers

Mac Gray, Civil Engineering Technology; Civil Engineering

  • Learning objectives

  • Cooperative learning

  • Web C/T

Gisela Hoecherl-Alden, Modern Languages & Classics (German)

  • Active learning

  • Small group activities

  • Collaborative learning

  • Curriculum and course design

  • Syllabus design (including learning objectives)

  • Teaching methods

Mazie Hough, Women's Studies and History

  • Classroom climate

  • Interdisciplinary teaching

  • Discussion based learning

  • Small group discussion

  • Gender issues in the classroom

John Hwalek, Chemical Engineering

  • Group projects and team assessment

  • Active learning

  • Teaching first-year students

  • Mid-term assessment

Irving Kornfield, Marine Sciences; Biological Sciences

  • Engaging students in large science lectures

  • Altering presentations to adjust to student needs

  • University Teaching Council

Judy Kuhns-Hastings, Nursing

  • Lecture organization for classes up to 80 students

  • Course organization

  • Setting and maintaining expectations for student learning (course milieu)

  • Laboratory teaching for student experiential learning

Eric Landis, Civil Engineering

  • Content delivery

  • Active engagement of students (up to 100 in class)

  • First-year students

  • Science and engineering laboratory courses

Kristin Langellier, Communication & Journalism

  • Active learning

  • Classroom communication

  • "Climate" issues - Gender and other social markers and how they include/exclude people & how the classroom climate distributes talk and silence

  • Speaking across the curriculum

  • Uses of storytelling

Shannon Martin, Communication and Journalism

  • Course design

  • Syllabus design

  • Content delivery

  • Active learning

  • Learning assessment

Virginia Nees-Hatlen, Center for Teaching Excellence; English

  • Using writing across the curriculum as a way of learning

  • Teaching and assessing writing

  • Text-based discussions

  • Small group dynamics and structure

  • First-year students

  • Managing a student-centered, active-learning classroom

  • Outcomes-based assessment of learning

Laurie Osher, Plant Soil & Environmental Sciences, School of Marine Sciences

  • Interdisciplinary teaching and learning

  • Promoting active learning in field classes

  • Development and management of on-line courses

  • Mentoring honor students completing thesis research

  • Advising student groups; encouragement of student leadership

Christa Schwintzer, Biological Sciences

  • Large classes (more than 100 students)

  • Constructing a syllabus

  • Constructing  exams

  • Team teaching

Fred Servello, Wildlife

  • Group research projects

  • Active learning

  • Case studies

  • Field teaching

Charlie Slavin, Honors College; Mathematics

  • Interdisciplinary teaching

  • Small group discussions

  • Collaborative learning

  • Course design

Carol Toner, Maine Studies Program

  • Teaching with technology:

  • ITV

  • Online

  • Polycom


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Center for Teaching Excellence
5719 Crossland Hall, Room 212
Orono, ME 04469-5719
Phone: 207-581-3472 | Fax: 207-581-3450
E-mail:  CTE@umit.maine.edu


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