This program has been paused for the 2022-2023 Academic Calendar Year
The Engaged Teacher-Scholar (ETS) program offers faculty support in creating and sharing evidence-based teaching and learning scholarship. The goal of the ETS Program is to recognize JMU faculty who engage in meaningful evidence-based teaching and learning scholarship. The program aims to support faculty growth in a process of becoming ETS leaders across JMU’s campus. Engaged Teacher-Scholars view teaching and learning from a scholarly point of view. Whether their work is called Discipline-based Education Research, Teaching Inquiry, or Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, these scholars are educators who engage in evidence-based teaching and learning scholarly activities. Faculty chosen to participate as ETS leaders will receive professional development funds for the year to support their professional goals.
Intro to the ETS and SoTL
In the intro video linked here, learn from Ed Brantmeier, former Assistant Director in the CFI Scholarship Area, about the ETS program and how it works to increase SoTL research at James Madison University. You might consider applying to become an ETS in the future.
Benefits to being an Engaged Teacher Scholar include:
- Being recognized for evidence-based teaching and learning scholarship.
- Serving as a liaison between CFI and department/college on ETS initiatives.
- Supporting JMU colleagues (within her/his department or college) with ETS efforts.
- Being a part of JMU’s Community of Engaged Teacher Scholars
- Receiving a $1000 in professional development funds to support personal ETS efforts (i.e. disseminate ETS work, attend ETS Professional Development opportunities, travel to ETS conferences, workshops, etc.)
During the academic year, Engaged Teacher Scholars will...
- Work with CFI to develop a plan for and offer ETS events each semester to their Unit-College and University-wide(examples include journal clubs, workshops, roundtables, methodology review, etc.).
- Make progress on their evidence-based teaching and learning scholarship project(s).
- Participate in a community of Engaged Teacher-Scholars.
- Attend CFI-organized or other professional development opportunities.
Engaged Teacher Scholar Program outcomes
Faculty participants will make progress toward these program outcomes:
• Advancing individual SoTL projects.
• Catalyzing unit-level teacher-scholar conversations.
• Generating university-wide dialogue on high-impact practices.
Faculty participants will make progress toward these outcomes:
• Enhancing scholarly productivity,
• Practicing the integration of scholarship with teaching and other career aspirations,
• Practicing the integration of scholarship and teaching, and
• Integrating knowledge of student development models in teaching philosophies and practice.
Publications & Accomplishments of ETS Scholars related to their program research
- Castaneda, D. I., and Merritt, J. “Research Initiation: Infusing Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (CRP) at the Start of the Engineering Mechanics Curriculum.” Submission to PFE:RIEF NSF: Awarded: $200,000.
- Castaneda, D. “Exploring critical consciousness in engineering curriculum through ill-structured problems.” In IEEE 2019 Frontiers in Education (FIE). Cincinnati, OH.
- Connolly, A. J. & Mutchler, L. A. (2021) "A Course Plan for Principles of IS Programming to withstand COVID-19" Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 48.
- Connolly, A., J, Rush, D., & Mutchler "Using Role Play to Teach Complexity in IT Project Management" (2020). AMCIS 2020 Proceedings. 3.
- Lang-Rigal, J. and Galaretta-Aima, D. "Improving students' confidence in speaking a second language". 2018-2019 Accelerating Creating Teaching (ACT) grant winner.
- Lang-Rigal, J. & Galaretta-Aima, D. "Improving students' confidence in speaking a second language: using TalkBoard [video conference with native speakers] in Spanish course" ICERI2019 Proceedings, pp. 1744-1753.
- Larsson, C. & Williams, R (JMU Undergraduate, Class of ‘18) “Jackpot! A cost-benefit analysis of prize-linked savings accounts”, case study forthcoming at Journal of Financial Education, (Winter 2020 issue)
- Larsson, C. Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Conference; Innovation in Teaching Award Finalist; October 2020.
- Larsson, C. SEDSI conference; Charleston, SC, February 13, 2020.
- Larsson, C. One of three finalists for FMA Innovation in Teaching Award; winner will be announced October 20th, 2020
- Lyons, C.W., Baker, S.C., Reis-Bergan, M.J. (2020, Oct 4th – 10th) "How to use observational behavioral measures in the scholarship of teaching and learning", Society for Teaching of Psychology Annual Conference on Teaching, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- Rush, D. E. & Connolly, A. J. (2020). "An Agile Framework for Teaching with Scrum in the IT Project Management Classroom. Journal of Information Systems Education", 31(3), 196-207.
- Scialdone, M. J. & Connolly, A. J. (2020). "Teaching Tip: How to Teach Information Systems Students to Design Better User Interfaces through Paper Prototyping." Journal of Information Systems Education, 31(3), 179-186.
- Sawyer, A., Dredger, K. & Myers, J. (2019). "Developing Teachers as Critical Curators: Investigating Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Inspirations for Lesson Planning." AACTE Journal of Teacher Education, October 19. 2019.
ETS Leaders 2021-2022
- Ana Abad-Jorge, Health Professions, College of Health and Behavioral Studies
- John Guo, Computer Information Systems & Business Analytics
- Shraddha Joshi, Engineering, College of Integrated Science and Engineering
- Robyn Kondrad, Psychology, College of Health and Behavioral Studies
- Zareen Rahman, Middle, Secondary, and Math Education, College of Education
- Kim Slekar, Biology, College of Science and Mathematics
Engaged Teacher-Scholar Program Liaisons
2018-2021: Dayna Henry, Health Sciences, College of Health and Behavioral Studies
Previous ETS Program Liaisons:
- Ray Rodriguez, Education Programs, College of Education
- Anthony Tongen, Math & Statistics,
- Ashley Taylor Jaffee, Middle, Secondary & Mathematics Education
Previous Engaged Teacher-Scholars
- Elise Barrella, Engineering
- Tiara Saufley Brown, Education Programs
- Daniel Castaneda, Engineering
- Shannon Conley, Integrated Science and Technology
- Amy Connolly, Computer Information Systems & Business Analytics
- Danielle DeRise, Writing, Rhetoric, & Technical Communication
- Katie Dredger, Middle, Secondary & Mathematics Education
- Samy El-Tawab, Integrated Science and Technology
- Diana Galarreta, Foreign Language
- Mollie Godfrey, English
- Heather Griscom, Biology
- Joseph Harsh, Biology
- Gilpatrick Hornsby, Hart School of Hospitality, Sport & Recreation Management
- Tiffany Hornsby, Graduate Psychology
- Cindy Hunter, Social Work
- Krisztina Jakobsen, Psychology
- Cindy Klevickis, Integrated Science and Technology
- Katya Koubek, Education Programs
- Carl Larsson, Finance and Business Law
- Joe LeBlanc, Graduate Psychology
- Mark Lewis, Literacy Education
- Claire Lyons, Psychology
- Shana Meganck, Communication Studies
- Erika Metzler Sawin, Nursing
- Ahmad Salman, Integrated Science and Technology
- Amanda Sawyer, Middle, Secondary & Mathematics Education
- David Shonk, Hart School of Hospitality, Sport & Recreation Management
- Alexis Stevens, Math & Statistics
- Budimka Uskokovic Tenney, Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
- Cassie Williams, Math & Statistics
- Emily York, Integrated Science and Technology