Teaching Enhancement Workshop:
“The Year of the City and Beyond”
August 30, 2006

Timonium Graduate Center

A focus on the Year of the City marks this year’s Teaching Enhancement Workshop.  After a Continental breakfast at 8:30 a.m., the workshop commences with keynote and breakout sessions that explore the integration of faculty pedagogy and the aims and purposes of the Year of the City.

9:00 – 10:30 a.m.  Keynote Session

Learning from Baltimore: A Prologue to the Year of the City
Presenters:  Jacques Kelly (The Sun), Ralph Moore (Community Center at St. Frances Academy), Erin O’Keefe (Catholic Charities), Stephanie Rawlings Blake (Vice President of the City Council and Representative for the 6th District)

This panel of prominent Baltimoreans and local leaders situates our reflections about teaching during the Year of the City and beyond in the context of conversation with the City and its concerns.  Addressing the question “If the Year of the City is done well, what can Loyola learn from Baltimore?,” the panelists will shed light on strengths of the City and explore some of the issues that it currently faces.  In addition to introducing faculty to significant aspects of Baltimore’s life and history, the panel aims to help faculty discover areas of intersection between their work and the strivings of the City.

10:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Breakout Sessions 

Ignatian Teaching Panels: The Year of the City and Beyond
Presenters:      Ignatian Teaching Panels

• Business: Gerard Athaide, Marketing; Andrea Giampetro-Meyer, Law and Social Responsibility; Ray Jones, Management; Al Machenzi, Accounting
• Humanities: Fritz Bauerschmidt, Theology; Bill Donovan, History; June Ellis, English; Dale Snow, Philosophy
• Social Sciences: Mickey Fenzel, Education; Kevin Gillespie, S.J., Pastoral Counseling; Marie Kerins, Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology; Heather Lyons, Psychology
• Sciences: Brian Barr, Chemistry; Sr. Tracy Dill, Biology; Joe Ganem, Physics; Bernadette Roche, Biology
  

These panels give faculty practical ways to help students understand the hallmarks of Jesuit education by practicing them in our courses.  These approaches do not necessarily ask us to do new work but invite us to make even more vital the work we are already doing.

We discuss specific strategies such as how to bring the Year of the City into our courses and use the methods and parameters of our discipline to strengthen the Year of the City; make explicit values and ethics that are implicit in our courses; transform existing courses by adding a related course goal, assignment, reading or reflection; incorporate service-learning, diversity, or social justice as ways to strengthen our courses.  The panels will invite dialogue and discussion.

The morning sessions of the workshop will be followed by a luncheon at the Holiday Inn near the Timonium Center.  The workshop continues throughout the afternoon with sessions on a wide range of topics of interest to both original and new faculty.  The day concludes with a reception.