Center for Engaged Learning | Student-Faculty Partnership

Students as Partners at ISSOTL 2018

by Sophia Abbot and Ketevan Kupatadze Students as Partners (SaP) had a major presence at the 2018 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) conference in Bergen, Norway, this past October. Twenty of the 247 conference sessions, …

Diverse and Alternative Ways of Partnering in SoTL

by Ketevan Kupatadze As I continue talking with my colleagues about student-faculty partnerships, whether in formal or more informal conversations, one recurring theme emerges: what does partnership look like in practice? My observations have taught me that a) most faculty immediately …

A Continuum of Research: Assistants, Partners, and Undergraduate Researchers

by Sophia Abbot One of the most powerful experiences of my undergraduate career was spending a summer writing and researching with Dr. Alison Cook-Sather. While the official job title was “research assistant,” I was doing much more than supporting Dr. …

Lessons from Peer Tutoring Towards Mentoring Undergraduate Research

by Sophia Abbot As I’ve reflected on the findings of my recent collaborative research and subsequent blog post on peer tutoring, I’ve begun to consider ways lessons from that work might inform practices in other student-instructor relationships. What I mean …

Stephen Bloch-Schulman, Claire Lockard and maggie castor on Student-Faculty Partnerships

by Ketevan Kupatadze Recently I was extremely fortunate to have a conversation with Dr. Stephen Bloch-Shulman and then undergraduate, but now graduate students, Claire Lockard and maggie castor, about their experiences with partnership in teaching and learning. Stephen, maggie, and Claire have …

What Happens if Disagreement in Partnership is Unevenly Experienced?

by Sophia Abbot This past January and February, my colleague and I launched research exploring the ways students and faculty in partnership can experience disagreement in generative ways that ultimately enhance their partnered relationship along with the broader goals of …

Dan Bernstein on student-faculty partnership

by Ketevan Kupatadze Recently I was fortunate enough to have a conversation with Dr. Daniel Bernstein about his experience on partnering with students in the field of teaching and learning. In this blog, I summarize some of the most salient points …

Relationships & Positionality in Undergraduate Peer Tutoring

by Sophia Abbot As a former student partner in Bryn Mawr College’s Students as Learners and Teachers program (see: Kupatadze, 2018), when I began my professional staff position in educational development following graduation, I sought out students occupying similar in-between …

Need for institutionalizing student-faculty partnership

by Ketevan Kupatadze Student-faculty partnership as an institutional practice is an integral part of (higher) education systems and, in my opinion, essential for student-faculty partnership success. It is very difficult to engage in student-faculty partnership in an environment in which it is …

Partnership-based pedagogy and its discontents

by Ketevan Kupatadze In this blog I continue to reflect on my experience with student-faculty partnership during the spring of 2018 and the lessons learnt not only in regards to partnerships, but also teaching and learning in general. Here I focus …

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