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Here are the 2007 Teaching and Learning Conference papers that were submitted to APSA in advance of the meeting. 

Follow the track structure below to find papers of interest to you. (Note:  The track structure below follows the structure published in the online program as of February 5, 2007.)

1 Teaching Research Methods 

SESSION A: Starting with Undergraduates
SESSION B: Locating Research Methods in the Curriculum
SESSION C: Teaching and Learning Research Methods
SESSION D: Open Session
SESSION E: Active Learning for Research Methods
SESSION F: Open Session
SESSION G: Engaging Research Methods and Civic Life

2 General Education/ Core Curriculum 

SESSION A: Rethinking General Education
SESSION B: Comparative/International Perspectives in General Education
SESSION C: Pedagogies for General Education
SESSION D: Open Session
SESSION E: Technology and General Education
SESSION F: Open Session
SESSION G: Improving General Education Through Assessment of Learning

3 Internationalizing the Curriculum I 

SESSION A: Training the Global Citizen
SESSION B: Teaching Difference In and Out of the Classroom
SESSION C: Internships in the Curriculum
SESSION D: Open Session
SESSION E: International Crises in the Classroom
SESSION F: Open Session
SESSION G: Teaching Human Rights

4 Internationalizing the Curriculum II 

SESSION A: Educating for International Empathy
SESSION B: International Perspectives in the Political Science Curriculum
SESSION C: Open Session
SESSION D: Active Learning in International Education
SESSION E: Information Resources for International Education
SESSION F: Open Session
SESSION G: Assessing Internationalization of the Curriculum 

5 Program Assessment I 

SESSION A: Assessing Knowledge and Research Skills
SESSION B: Assessing Writing Skills
SESSION C: Open Session
SESSION D: Classroom Assessment Approaches
SESSION E: Program Assessment Techniques
SESSION F: Open Session
SESSION G: Program Assessment/Drawing Conclusions

6 Program Assessment II 

SESSION A: Program Assessment Overview
SESSION B: Standardized Tests, Portfolios, and Capstones
SESSION C: Open Session
SESSION D: Learning Compacts, Peer Review, and Outcomes Data
SESSION E: Open Session
SESSION F: Philosophical and Methodological Issues in Assessment
SESSION G: Assessment in Context

7 Simulations and Role Play I 

SESSION A: Simulating IR Through Crisis Situations and the US National Security Council
SESSION B: From the Classroom to the Department: Simulations and Role-Playing in Conflict Resolution & Crisis Situations
SESSION C: Open Session
SESSION D: Simulating Power Through Nonviolent Strategies and Beyond
SESSION E: Open Session
SESSION F: Teaching Intelligence and Student Incentives Structure Through Role-Playing Techniques
SESSION G: Blended Learning, Simulation and Role-Playing Ideas in Political Thought and Public Administration  

8 Simulations and Role Play II  

SESSION A: Simulations and Real Life
SESSION B: Tools for Simulations and Teaching
SESSION C: Open Session
SESSION D: Engaging Students in Learning
SESSION E: Open Session
SESSION F: Resembling Politics
SESSION G: Courts and Active Learning 

9 Civic Engagement I 

SESSION A: Track Introductions and Planning
SESSION B: Open Session
SESSION C: Engaging Students in Civics
SESSION D: Learning What Works
SESSION E: Open Session
SESSION F: Active Learning for Civic Engagement
SESSION G: Grounding Civics in Theory

10 Civic Engagement II 

SESSION A: Active Learning, But What Results
SESSION B: Open Session
SESSION C: Grounds of Civic Engagement
SESSION D: Civics and the Community
SESSION E: Open Session
SESSION F: Paths to Active Learning
SESSION G: Understanding Civics 

11 Graduate Education

SESSION A: Using Evidence in Graduate Education
SESSION B: Open Session
SESSION C: Teaching Strategies for Graduate Students
SESSION D: Open Session
SESSION E: Lessons From PA and Policy Education
SESSION F: Cross-National Views
SESSION G: Graduate Education and National Policy

12 Diversity and Inequality   

SESSION A: Grounding Diversity in Rights
SESSION B: Open Session
SESSION C: Diversity and Active Learning
SESSION D: Open Session
SESSION E: Community Based Views of Diversity
SESSION F: Teaching and Learning LGBT Politics
SESSION G: Addressing Cross-Cultural Issues