Are you looking to write down some reflections on your teaching practice or detail a teaching innovation you’ve recently implemented in your classes? Are you ready to develop a scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) project of inquiry? Are you hoping to share these with your colleagues, at Pratt and beyond?
We’re looking to drum up interest in a SoTL Development mini-FLC that will run over the Fall 2026 semester with an initial kickoff in late May to get us thinking about –
- What motivates our thinking and writing?
- Do we need to look into the IRB process to accurately write up our reflections?
- Where do our reflections sit within a larger body of SoTL literature?
Join our SoTL Development mini-FLC to connect with other Pratt faculty who are just beginning to work on teaching research, writing, and other projects within the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
This group is especially open to Pratt faculty for whom writing isn’t a ‘first medium’. Maybe you don’t usually write, maybe something visual is your preferred medium for reflecting and thinking deeply. This group would be good for artists and makers who are great teachers and who want to begin sharing their work. We will look at examples of work that has successfully incorporated visual and audio reflection into our SoTL, and think about how that might be employed in our own work. We will also talk over (and offer support) for navigating Pratt’s IRB process.
There will be 5 meetings total, a mix of online and in person. In these meetings, we’ll work towards a completed draft for submission to iteratio (and other SoTL journals which we’ll talk about in our meetings). The current call for proposals for iteratio issue 7 is currently open with a due date of October 2, 2026.
All meeting dates are on Wednesdays with the exception of the kickoff, which meets on a Thursday.
Dates are as follows: (*some dates fall outside the academic calendar)
- May 28, 10:30–12:30 *
- August 19, 10:30–12:30 *
- September 2, 1–3
- September 16, 1–3
- September 30, 1–3
If these dates and times don’t work for you to be available in person, please look out for future CTL programming announcements that might better suit your availability.
