An Innovative Classroom Research Program

ETLP is a classroom research program that enables high school and college faculty to work together to improve teaching and learning.

ETLP partners confront pedagogical challenges experienced everyday in the classroom, including

• Exploring how feedback from diagnostic assessments is related

to student mastery of concepts.

• Exploring whether and how students use French language resources in their non-French academic coursework.

Exploring Problems of Practice

Thomas Hatch, co-director of the National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University, argues for a renewed focus on specific problems in student learning.

"... “problems of practice,” ... can be addressed, even resolved, by individuals or small groups of teachers conducting systematic inquiries into student learning.
...when teachers address the “problems” and questions in their classroom, they … make local theories that they can apply in a number of related contexts and that other teachers can learn from and build upon...."

Introduction, Going Public with Our Work, Teachers College Press, 2005.

Elon Professors and High School Teachers Selected  for 2010 Teaching and Learning Partnership

The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) announces the selection of its second cohort of research partners for the Elon Teaching and Learning Partnership (ETLP). Among those selected are eight Elon faculty members and eight high school teachers.

The Partnership involves faculty from Elon University and teachers from the public school systems in Alamance and Orange counties.

Elon University professors are:

• Crystal Anderson, English
• Kirsten Doehler, Mathematics
• Harlen Makemson, Communications
• Rebecca Pope-Ruark, English
• Omri Shimron, Music
• Kerstin Sorensen, Political Science
• Safia Swimelar, Political Science
• Anthony Weaver, Leisure and Sport Management

Area High School Teachers selected are:

• Jeanne Allen, English,

Alamance Burlington Middle College

• Amy Efland, Social Studies,

Cedar Ridge High School

• Robert Flanagan, Social Studies,

Cedar Ridge High School

• Charlie Oakley, History,

Cedar Ridge High School

• Jolene Alley, Business and Marketing,

Southern Alamance High School

• Susan Crane, Digital Communication,

Southern Alamance High School

• Jacqueline Quick, Environmental Science, Williams High School
• Neil Schledorn, History,

Williams High School

> ETLP Cohort II Announcement.pdf

Cohort I:  2008 - 09 Program

The group includes secondary school teachers

who work in Alamance-Burlington (ABSS)

and Orange County school systems,

and Elon University faculty.

2008 - 09 Schedule

Cohort II:  2009 - 10 Program

The group will include secondary school teachers

who work in Alamance-Burlington (ABSS)Orange County school systems and Elon University faculty.

2009 - 10 Schedule