The John M. Burns Conference is co-sponsored each year by the Teaching, Learning, and Professional Development Center and the Teaching Academy. Named in honor of Dr. John M. Burns, who helped found the Teaching Academy, this conference is held each fall and features two keynote sessions from an invited teacher-scholar and a poster session from recipients of the Lawrence Schovanec Teaching Development Scholarship Award. Past speakers include Michelle Miller, Noah Finkelstein, Bryan Dewsbury, Peter Felten, Claire Howell Major, Michele DiPietro, and Derek Bruff.
This year, we are excited to hear from Dr. Lindsay Masland. Dr. Masland is the Executive Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning for Student Success at Appalachian State, where she develops and implements a variety of programming designed to support teachers in higher ed. Also a Professor of Psychology, Lindsay teaches courses in statistics, educational psychology, and pedagogy. She has served as consulting editor for two journals that focus on teaching in higher ed, and she’s very involved in Division 2 of the American Psychology Association (Society for the Teaching of Psychology), including serving as the Director of the Annual Conference on Teaching. Additionally, Lindsay has won both national and university-wide teaching awards.
Lindsay’s teaching and research interests lie at the intersection of student engagement, effective teaching practices, and inclusive excellence, and her passion is to help educators make sound pedagogical choices that lead to transformative educational experiences for the many types of students they find in their classrooms. She’s also very interested in the positionality of teachers in higher education, including the societal and systemic pressures that conspire to devalue the role of teaching and learning in academia. In short, she’s an enthusiast for equitable, transformative, and liberatory experiences for all who endeavor to teach and learn in higher ed.
The conference will feature a keynote talk in the morning and a workshop in the afternoon. Lunch will be provided in between the sessions and recipients of the Lawrence Schovanec Teaching Development Scholarships will present posters sharing information from the conferences they attended. Please register by Friday, September 20th.
*Please Note: While this conference is intended to be face-to-face, we may offer a virtual option for remote faculty. If you have a remote appointment, please email Molly Jacobs to request a Zoom link.
Registration is now open! Please click on the session title to for the description and option to register.