Teaching-Learning Academy is a chance to learn and share how to make WWU a better place

Would you like to connect with community members, faculty, staff and students from across campus? Would you like to understand teaching and learning in a deeper and more significant way? Would you like to step off the high speed train of our busy academic lives to study what it means to sustain a reflective learning culture and contribute to institutional change initiatives?

Western Washington University's Teaching-Learning Academy offers faculty, staff, administrators, community members and students the opportunity to come together in dialogue every quarter, leading to advancing action projects aimed at making WWU an even better place to teach and learn. Spring quarter, the TLA focus is on reflective learning.

Four dialogue group options are available from which to choose. Sessions are Wednesdays at noon, Wednesdays at 2 p.m., Thursdays at noon and Thursdays at 2 p.m. The sessions are held in Canada House and last for 80 minutes. Attendees are welcome to come even if they cannot stay the entire time. For spring, the sessions occur every other week for a total of four sessions. Dates are April 7 and 8, April 21 and 22, May 5 and 6, and May 19 and 20.

Typically, participants pick a regular group and attend TLA on that day and time for the entire quarter, but the commitment is flexible and missing a session or attending a different group is OK. Participants are welcome to attend for as often, or as long, as they can manage.

Those wishing to join should contact Megan Otis at megan.otis@wwu.edu. More information is available by contacting Otis or TLA Director Carmen Werder (carmen.werder@wwu.edu) or by visiting the Web site at http://www.wwu.edu/depts/tla/.