Apply to become an Engaged Teacher-Scholar (ETS) with the Center for Faculty Innovation.
The Engaged Teacher-Scholar (ETS) program supports faculty scholarship examining issues of teaching and learning. Scholarly work that consists of evidence-based explorations of teaching and learning activities is known as discipline-based research, teaching inquiry, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.
In the ETS Program, faculty develop and implement an inquiry project addressing their teaching and/or their students’ learning. As a learning community, faculty meet during the program to expand their knowledge base, support progress on their projects, and connect with colleagues. Faculty projects are expected to result in a scholarly product.
This year, the ETS program will focus on self-study, i.e., the systematic inquiry of one’s teaching practices and beliefs (for more information, see Louise, Drevdahl, Purdy, & Stackman’s article "Advancing the Scholarship of Teaching Through Collaborative Self-Study." Faculty accepted into the program will receive up to $300 to support their scholarly work.
APPLICATION PROCESS: The program runs from November (fall semester) through May (spring semester). Refer to the CFI events feed to learn about the application process.
Benefits to being an Engaged Teacher-Scholar include:
- Being recognized for evidence-based teaching and learning scholarship
- Serving as a liaison between CFI and departments/colleges 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 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:
- 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
Program Outcomes
Faculty participants will make progress toward:
- Advancing a scholarly project
- Developing new scholarly skills
- Creating a community with colleagues
- Supporting a scholarly agenda
- Practicing the integration of scholarship with teaching and other career aspirations
Scholarship Programs & Resources
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 2023-2024
- Sombo Muzata, Political Science, College of Arts and Letters
- Ben Riden, Educational Foundations and Exceptionalities, College of Education
- Eva Strawbridge, Mathematics and Statistics, College of Science and Mathematics
- Bisi Velayudhan, Biology, College of Science and Mathematics
- Hui Zhao, Nursing, College of Health and Behavioral Studies
Engaged Teacher-Scholar Program Liaisons
Current Liason
- Tim Ball, Communication Studies, College of Arts and Letters
Former Liaisons
- Dayna Henry, Health Sciences, College of Health and Behavioral Studies (2018-2021)
- Ray Rodriguez, Education Programs, College of Education
- Anthony Tongen, Math & Statistics,
- Ashley Taylor Jaffee, Middle, Secondary & Mathematics Education
Previous Engaged Teacher Scholars
- Ahmad Salman, Integrated Science and Technology
- Alexis Stevens, Math & Statistics
- Amanda Sawyer, Middle, Secondary & Mathematics Education
- Amy Connolly, Computer Information Systems & Business Analytics
- Ana Abad-Jorge, Health Professions, College of Health and Behavioral Studies
- Budimka Uskokovic Tenney, Foreign Languages
- Carl Larsson, Finance and Business Law
- Cassie Williams, Math & Statistics
- Cindy Hunter, Social Work
- Cindy Klevickis, Integrated Science and Technology
- Claire Lyons, Psychology
- Daniel Castaneda, Engineering
- Danielle DeRise, Writing, Rhetoric, & Technical Communication
- David Shonk, Hart School of Hospitality, Sport & Recreation Management
- Diana Galarreta, Foreign Languages
- Elise Barrella, Engineering
- Emily York, Integrated Science and Technology
- Erika Metzler Sawin, Nursing
- Gilpatrick Hornsby, Hart School of Hospitality, Sport & Recreation Management
- Heather Griscom, Biology
- Joe LeBlanc, Graduate Psychology
- John Guo, Computer Information Systems & Business Analytics
- Joseph Harsh, Biology
- Katie Dredger, Middle, Secondary & Mathematics Education
- Katya Koubek, Education Programs
- Kim Slekar, Biology, College of Science and Mathematics
- Krisztina Jakobsen, Psychology
- Mark Lewis, Literacy Education
- Mollie Godfrey, English
- Robyn Kondrad, Psychology, College of Health and Behavioral Studies
- Samy El-Tawab, Integrated Science and Technology
- Shana Meganck, Communication Studies
- Shannon Conley, Integrated Science and Technology
- Shraddha Joshi, Engineering, College of Integrated Science and Engineering
- Tiara Saufley Brown, Education Programs
- Tiffany Hornsby, Graduate Psychology
- Zareen Rahman, Middle, Secondary, and Math Education, College of Education
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