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The Wabash grant that we received was very welcome as it enabled us to hire a consultant to work with us as we thought through curriculuar revisions for the M.Div. and M.T.S. degrees--a task that we had put off for quite some time. The money was well spent, as we just completed the project and have what we think is a greatly improved set of programs to offer the academic community and the church.
Stanley E. Porter
McMaster Divinity College

Consultants and Workshop Leaders for Onsite Visits

The Wabash Center has trained consultants who are available for onsite visits for faculty discussions, retreats, workshops or other sustained conversations about teaching and learning. We will fund the stipend and travel of the consultant; we ask that the school provide all local hospitality expenses, including room, board, and local travel.

A Wabash Center consultation can take a variety of forms from a structured “Teaching and Learning Workshop” focused on a specific practice or issue on your campus, to a less-structured, and perhaps ongoing, “Teaching and Learning Consultation” that is a conversation or exploration of an issue guided by an experienced outsider who is skilled at facilitating conversation.
To apply, submit a proposal and contact-information form online. Based on the nature of the request, we will identify a consultant from our pool who will be a good fit with your proposal. We will then put this consultant in touch with you to begin conversations and planning for the event.

Teaching and Learning Workshops
Our consultants are experienced teachers from a wide variety of academic settings. They will work with you to design faculty retreats and workshops that focus on specific practices of teaching and learning.
For example:

• learning styles
• teaching strategies
• outcomes assessment
• cultural diversity in the classroom
• instructional design
• evaluation of student learning
• teaching and adult development
• relationship of teaching practices to curricular revision
• use of media and educational technology
• theological reflection on foundations
• personal commitments, and presuppositions of teaching and learning
• public role of teaching, or teaching as public theology
• faith issues in the classroom
• various teaching strategies, such as service-learning, team teaching, online discussions, etc.

Teaching and Learning Consultations
Our consultants are excellent conversation facilitators. They can help faculty, department chairs, or deans explore how to identify and respond to issues of teaching and learning.
For example:

• designing a faculty development program
• enhancing integrative courses
• exploring effective ways to evaluate teaching
• examining the culture for learning at your institution
• relating pedagogical practice to institutional mission and curriculum purposes.
• using assessment data to improve teaching
• applying the Carnegie Foundation’s Education Clergy research to your institution.

Consultations can help groups of faculty members explore and plan in a collegial atmosphere how to address teaching and learning issues, or coach department chairs and deans on issues of faculty development in teaching and learning.

Consultations may be as brief as a single session helping a seminary or department to consider and plan to explore a teaching and learning issue.

Consultations may be extended and begin with conversations to refine issues with a committee or group of faculty members, include visits to explore settings, involve workshops on identified topics, and set future learning agenda.

Consulting is structured around the goals of those involved, focusing on their particular teaching practices, contexts, and experiences. In conversation with a consultant, a design or program can be developed to fit your institution’s needs and expectations.

Wabash Center

301 W. Wabash Avenue

Crawfordsville, Indiana 47933

wabashcenter@wabash.edu
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