News/Curriculum
NEW Post Baccalaureate Certificate!
Regents
Unanimously Approve NEW Post Baccalaureate Certificate--"Innovations
in Undergraduate Multicultural Teaching and Learning!" PSTL will be
offering the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate beginning in fall, 2009.
PSTL offers two new graduate courses in fall 2009!
If you are you interested in teaching and learning in diverse college contexts or multicultural theories of college student development then one or both of PSTL’s new courses may be a great addition to your graduate studies.
Nature in the City
Students in Jesse Kroese's PsTL 1112 Nature in the City course take a field trip to Hyland Regional Park in Bloomington to explore hardwood and prairie ecosystems.
"Inherit the Wind" performed in Spring 2009 Learning Community
Students in the “Intricate Web of Life” Spring
2009 Learning Community performed a staged reading of “Inherit the Wind”, a
play based on the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial.
PsTL First-Year Curriculum
PSTL offers a two-semester curriculum focused on the social, academic, and institutional needs of first-year students. This program builds intentional pathways to majors in the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) by introducing students to the ways of creating knowledge in different disciplines, while also encouraging students to build knowledge across disciplines. The first-year curriculum includes a First Year Inquiry course and Learning Communities.
First Year Inquiry (FYI): Multidisciplinary Ways of Knowing
FYI is an innovative, team-taught class that engages first-year students in meaningful learning and scholarship by linking faculty members from different disciplines.
Learning Communities
Learning Communities are classes from different disciplines that have been intentionally integrated around a theme, teaching approach, shared goal, or final project.
Events/Highlights
Can One Person Make a Difference?
Please
join PsTL, the college community and incoming freshman in
reading A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines. You are invited to
multiple events
that will be open to the public.
Murals of Appleby Hall, Pat James' Legacy to the U
As
Pat James, Associate Professor, enters
retirement, we invite you to celebrate her legacy:
The Murals of Appleby Hall. These six
large-scale works were created between 1996 and 2007 by students in James’
PsTL 1481 Creativity Art Laboratory.
PsTL scholarships
Several scholarships are available to current PsTL students and to incoming PsTL students.
Current highlights
College researchers make equity their goal
As a child from a lower income, single-mother family, Na’im Madyun says he
was always strong academically but not tops among his peers. Today he has a
doctorate in school psychology from the College and an assistant professorship
in the Department of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning.
[Continue reading Connect!]
Learning communities support first-generation students
The positive effects of a college diploma are many—from increased income,
professional mobility, and improved quality of life, to good health. Yet for
students whose parents’ highest level of education is high school or less, finishing
college is a challenge.
[Continue reading ResearchWorks]