A Sony executive is teaching a class at WSU … from Japan. His students get to hear from corporate leaders from the National Football League, Harrah’s Entertainment, Concerts West, the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (UK), and Warner Bros. Studios. This who’s who of corporate insight was arranged by Kenji Kitatani, the 2005–2007 […]
Washington State University alumna Lisa Cartwright, a fourth-grade teacher at Pullman’s Franklin Elementary School, received a 2004 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the nation’s highest honor for teaching in these fields. Cartwright received the award at an April 15 ceremony in Washington, D.C. With the award she receives a $10,000 gift […]
Nine grants recently were awarded to faculty for projects to improve teaching and learning assessment at Washington State University. This is the third year the grants have funded undergraduate teaching and learning projects; however, the content of this year’s projects and the collaborators involved highlight a sharper focus on assessment and on improvements at the […]
Expanded teaching, learning and research opportunities are on the table for all at Washington State University — faculty, staff and students — in the form of PBJ. Not the type that sticks in your mouth, but PBJ, the portal-based journal, that opens wide WSU’s ability to communicate with the world.A journal is used to record […]
How can students be actively involved in class, even if there are 200 of them in the room? What has the research shown regarding the effectiveness of cooperative learning? What are productive ways to involve students in teams in lecture, laboratory, and project courses? How should engineering curricula be structured? These are some of the […]
Provost Robert C. Bates has announced that 14 proposals have received grants amounting to $300,000 as part of the undergraduate teaching and learning quality improvement initiative begun in early February. The grants are part of efforts to implement the first goal of the university’s Strategic Plan “to offer the best undergraduate experience in a research […]
The presentation of this year’s Richard Crain Faculty Award for Distinction in Ethics Teaching will take place from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, in SCUE 518. A wine and cheese reception will take place, along with the presentation of the award by Mrs. Carolee Crain. Candis S. Claiborn, associate professor, College of […]
Working to remove roadblocks so that all students can succeed is a driving passion for Skip Paznokas. “Seeing students learn is what motivates me,” he states. Student advocate A part of WSU for the last 26 years, Paznokas is considered by his colleagues to be a problem-solver when it comes to advising. “I was willing […]
Within a special classroom in Cleveland Hall, Lynda Paznokas gives her students — tomorrow’s K – 8 teachers — the confidence they’ll need to reach their pupils, by putting them into the shoes of those youngsters.The walls of her classroom are filled with bulletin boards that could be found in any K – 8 class, […]