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"I have been to the Teaching and Learning Conference three times and have always found the discussions more lively and detailed than any other academic conference I have attended. The fact that you get to spend a whole weekend on these issues with your colleagues is a terrific opportunity to start a dialogue that can last years. As political scientists tasked with educating the next generation of leaders we need to spend more time thinking about teaching and learning. This conference is great for many reasons, but perhaps the most important one is that you get to talk with colleagues who actually agree with this and have spent a lot of their time thinking about how to be better teachers. Additionally, I have always taken back valuable information for the classroom from every teaching and Learning Conference I have attended because the focus of the conference is truly on the teaching portion of our job.
"I have attended all TLC meetings since the conference’s inception. Each conference has provided me with new ideas and tools of what to do in my classes and how to assess my students’ learning. The conference has also created a network of scholars engaged in state-of-the-art scholarship of teaching and learning, and many of the papers at the TLC have subsequently been published, thus providing resources for teaching and learning for the discipline beyond the conference itself. The TLC has been beneficial for both my teaching and my own scholarship in the SoTL area." Kerstin Hamann, University of Central Florida Chair of the Committee on Teaching and Learning, former TLC Moderator
"The APSA TLC has definitely helped me network with other political sciences engaged in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. The opportunities to meet other professors who care deeply about teaching is a great feature of the TLC. Also, I've been able to learn about innovative teaching approaches and bring those back to my campus and classes." Juan Carlos Huerta, Texas A&M, Corpus Christi Former TLC Programming Committee member, former TLC Moderator, former member of Committee on the Status of Latinos y Latinas in the Profession, Chair of the Political Science Education Organized Section, former Annual Meeting Programming Committee member
"I find that the APSA TLC provides me with essential tools to effectively reexamine and revitalize my teaching each year. The intense, interactive workshop allows each participant to share and disseminate new ideas, foster new research or scholarship, and interest in a supportive environment. More importantly, participation in TLC builds a community of colleagues who value teaching as integral to our profession." Sherri L. Wallace, University of Louisville Former TLC Programming Committee chair, former TLC Moderator, former Chair of the Committee on the Status of Blacks in the Profession, Current member of the APSA Council
“Having attended the 2009 Teaching and Learning Conference, I can say that the information from both my track and the workshops at the TLC were immediately applicable to my classroom... For me, the Teaching and Learning Conference was most valuable because it allowed me to focus on political science and pedagogy at the same time – there is no other conference I have been to that has allowed me to really think about these two critical aspects of my job at the same time. Further, most Community College Faculty are either the only political scientist on faculty, or we are one of a small handful of colleagues. Thus, one of the other significant benefits of this conference is the opportunity to network with other political scientists who are also thinking about teaching and pedagogy..." Erin Richards, Cascadia Community College Current member of the TLC Programming Committee
“The teaching and learning conference is flat out the best political science conference I have ever attended. The working group/track format is very different than any other US political science conference, and provides a lot of opportunities for interaction, feedback, and intellectual exchange, more so than the typical panel format that is common to most other political science conferences. I go every single year, and will continue to do so.” John Ishiyama, University of North Texas Former TLC Programming Committee member, Former TLC Moderator, Current Editor-in–Chief of the Journal of Political Science Education, and former APSA Council member
“The TLC is a small, inspiring conference where ideas about improving teaching abound. It has provided a number of tangible benefits each time I have attended. For example, after hearing about successful service learning courses, I explored my own campus resources and am working on my own service learning course. I also incorporate online materials in all my undergraduate courses after seeing some demos at TLC. This has rejuvenated me and my teaching, but more importantly students are more engaged with the material and carry this outside of the classroom to online discussion boards about current events and streaming videos I have selected. Finally, the TLC has been fundamental in connecting faculty interested in innovative methods teaching and has led to an NSF proposal by a group of us on that topic. In short, the TLC has been invaluable to me and the profession.”
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