Author: Kathryn Zawisza

David Fredrick, associate professor of Classical studies in the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures and Director of the Tesseract Center, gave a presentation at the Teaching and Faculty Support Center...

Grant Drawve, Casey Harris, Patricia Herzog gave a presentation at the Teaching and Faculty Support Center (TFSC) Winter Symposium titled “Data Literacy in Practice: Working and Understanding Real Data.” Across...

Kate Shoulders, Associate Professor in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food & Life Sciences department, gave a presentation at the Teaching and Faculty Support Center (TFSC) Winter Symposium titled “Retire...

Carol Reeves, Associate Vice-Provost for Entrepreneurship and Professor and Cupp Applied Professor of Entrepreneurship, gave a presentation at the Teaching Faculty Support Center (TFSC) Winter Symposium titled “Building a Mosaic: How an Innovative Curriculum Can Draw on and Strengthen the Arkansas Ecosystem.”  In this presentation she outlined keys to curriculum Innovation.

She emphasized the need to innovate for the specific task at hand with the group of students or the resources that are available.  Just as an orange tree will not thrive in Arkansas, innovative ideas that have worked for other areas or other students may not work for you.  However, this does not mean that there are not innovative ideas and methods will not work at all, we just need to plant apple trees in Arkansas!