Peer Observation Program
The Peer Observation Program (POP) offers faculty a formal incentive to observe colleagues teaching and discuss those observations. Learn more...

Interdisciplinary Course Audit Resource
The Interdisciplinary Course Audit Resource (ICAR) encourages faculty to audit a course outside of their area of expertise at the Claremont Colleges. Four stipends of $1000 and funds for textbooks are available to auditors in Fall 2004 and again in Spring 2005. Learn more...

Talking Teaching Seminars

Writing Workshop
The Faculty Writing Work Group, first offered in the fall of 2007, is aimed at encouraging and supporting faculty to use writing in their courses. This small  group of 8-12 faculty meets periodically throughout the semester to discuss John C. Bean's "Engaging Ideas," share ideas and projects, and support the development and/or refinement of writing assignments, including linking assignments to course objectives, explaining the assignment to students, giving effective feedback and managing the grading. Participants are intended to leave the group with a fully developed writing assignment to implement in a course the following semester. The group is convened by Writing Center Director Wendy Menefee-Libey, and is co-sponsored by Dean of the Faculty Bob Cave.

"Teaching with Your Mouth Shut" Workshop
The Teaching and Learning Committee held a workshop based on Donald Finkel's "Teaching With Your Mouth Shut" in Fall 2007, led by Professor Nancy Lape. The book "proposes an alternative vision of teaching—one that is deeply democratic in its implications." Finkel discusses how teachers can move beyond "telling" to creating courses in which genuine learning occurs through such methods as student-led classes, well-designed writing assignments and engaging students with conflicting viewpoints when teaching with a colleague. It is a quick, enjoyable read, in which the ideas are presented as a series of case studies and stories. The workshop group completed the "Conceptual Workshop" contained in the Appendix, with an additional discussion of if and how Finkel's ideas can be applied to their own disciplines.