Elon Teaching and Learning Partnership

The Elon Teaching and Learning Partnership (ETLP), recently funded by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, aims to bridge the divide that often exists between high school and post-secondary teachers. The partnership will support year-long inquiry communities of high school and university faculty investigating common questions about student learning, leading to improved teaching at both the high school and college level.

The program will involve 14 teachers annually, with seven coming from the public school systems in Alamance and Orange counties and seven from the faculty at Elon University. Participants in the program will work together to investigate specific problems in student learning. The program will eventually expand to include teachers from other school districts and universities in the region.

The ETLP will include three phases. During a week-long summer institute, participants will work in teams to develop learning research projects. Then during fall and spring semesters, the projects will be implemented in classrooms, with teachers analyzing student learning. At the end of the academic year, findings of the research projects will be shared widely with educators through workshops and an online gallery.

Planning for the program will take place in 2007, with the first group of educators beginning its collaboration in the summer 2008.

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