Crossing the Boundaries: Models for Interdisciplinary Co-Teaching in Undergraduate Courses

1. Crossing the Boundaries: Models for Interdisciplinary Co-Teaching in Undergraduate Courses A Practice Session presented at the Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy February 6, 2014

2. Our Team Lesley University, Cambridge MA • Sidney Trantham Lasell College, Newton MA • Catherine Zeek • Linda Bucci • Michael Daley • Lori Rosenthal Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Boston • Linda Bruenjes

3. Our Agenda • Overview • Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn [First Year Seminar] • Least intensive during the course • Two perspectives focusing on a topic • Persuading People, Preserving Planet [Sophomore Multidisciplinary] • Moderately intensive faculty interaction during the course • Two disciplines focusing on a problem and related projects • Children and Violence [Course cross-listed in PSYC and Justice Studies] • Highly intensive faculty interaction during the course • Two disciplines focusing on a problem; modeling the process of changing professionals’ mental models • Wrap-up and discussion

4. First Year Seminar:Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn • Catherine Zeek: Chair & Associate Professor, Education Department • Linda Bruenjes: Associate Professor and Director of Instructional Technology • Shared interests in preservice teachers’ understanding of effective pedagogy and use of instructional technology • Pilot three-credit FYS offered for students entering licensure programs at Lasell (Fall 2007)

5. First Year Seminar:Planning • Twice co-taught Technology in Education (TIE) • Incorporated topics and experiences from TIE • Meetings: • Frequent, extended, f2f during spring and summer preceding FYS to identify resources, assign roles, and create course structure • Weekly, often briefly, during fall semester to debrief and redirect

6. First Year Seminar:Teaching • Least overlap in roles • Divided topics; assigned them to ourselves • Each class period: one lead and one support

7. First Year Seminar:Evaluating • Both read / reviewed all student work • Compared scoring on rubrics to develop consistency • Met together with students to provide feedback • Divided other student meetings

8. Persuading PeoplePreserving Planet Dr. Mike Daley, Environmental Scientist Dr. Lori Rosenthal, Psychologist

12. How many bags do Lasell College students send to the landfill each academic year? 31,500 bags in landfill per academic year Multiply this by the number of college students in New England

13. Using the tools of environmental science and psychology to create sustainable solutions Persuading People, Preserving the Planet

14. Six Compliance Principles • Social Validation • Reciprocity • Liking • Consistency • Authority • Scarcity

15. Which is a social validation message? HELP SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT. You can show your respect for nature and help save the environment by reusing your towels during your stay JOIN YOUR FELLOW GUESTS IN HELPING TO SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT. Almost 75% of guests who are asked to participate in our new resource savings program do help by using their towels more than once. You can join your fellow guests in this program to help save the environment by reusing your towels during your stay

16. Figure 2 is from an experiment by Goldstein et al. 2008 on towel reuse messaging in hotels. Without knowing much about the experiment, what does this graph imply to you?

17. Compliance Principles Social Validation Reciprocity Liking Commitment Authority Scarcity

18. Survey Results

19. Core Areas of Inquiry • Apply the process of scientific inquiry to comprehend the natural world and to solve problems • Evaluate and understand how individual differences in mental processes and behaviors relate to beliefs, values, and interactions • Interpret and analyze the complex interrelationships and inequities in human societies in a global and historical context • Experience modes of self-expression and creativity

20. Core Intellectual Skills • Read and respond in an informed and discerning way to written texts of different genres • Use listening and speaking skills to express ideas and information clearly and confidently in a variety of settings • Apply quantitative reasoning to solve problems effectively • Use appropriate technological tools to solve problems efficiently • Collect, analyze, and synthesize appropriate data and sources effectively, ethically, and legally • Work effectively in collaborative settings • Write clear, well-organized, persuasive prose

21. Children & Violence Linda Bucci Lasell College Newton, MA Sidney Trantham Lesley University Cambridge, MA

22. Children & Violence • Linda Bucci: former prosecutor & professor of criminal justice and legal studies • Sidney Trantham: clinical psychologist/neuropsychologist & associate professor of psychology • Shared interests in area of childhood violence and maltreatment • Three versions of the course (Spring 2004, Spring 2007, Spring 2009)

23. Children & Violence • Course Development: Generative Stage • Labor intensive • Began 6 months – 1 year prior to course • Identified focus, purpose, goals, objectives & course content • Worked on departmental & administrative buy-in • Curriculum review

24. Children & Violence • Course Development: Refining Stage • Narrowing focus of course • Clarification of topics, readings & assignments • Creation of course activities

25. Children & Violence • Course Development: Finalizing Stage • Re-confirmed guest speakers, field trips • Finalized syllabus • Marketed course

26. Children & Violence

27. Children & Violence • Both faculty present for all classes and all course-related activities • Some natural splitting of work but most assessment of students involved both faculty reviewing student work • Planning before & after classes on a weekly basis • Modeling for students how professionals from different backgrounds may see same issue from different perspective yet still work together

28. Is this a situation where you would report? Children & Violence: Class Scenarios

29. Discussion • Linda Bucci / Lasell College / Newton, MA • lbucci@lasell.edu • Lori Rosenthal / Lasell College / Newton, MA • lrosenthal@lasell.edu • Sidney Trantham / Lesley University / Cambridge, MA • trantham@lesley.edu • Cathy Zeek / Lasell College / Newton, MA • czeek@lasell.edu