students head up keynote presentation at St. Louis conference
Three Western Washington University undergraduates headed up the presentation team for an invited keynote address titled “Engaging Student Voices as Co-Inquirers” at the Maryville Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning in St. Louis on Oct. 1.
Annemarie Curd, Daniel Espinoza-Gonzalez and Connor Powell joined Teaching-Learning Academy director Carmen Werder and program assistant Megan Otis in presenting the keynote address for this second SoTL conference at Maryville University. Curd is a sophomore planning to apply to Woodring in Elementary Education; Espinoza-Gonzalez is a junior planning to apply for the Secondary Education program and also for Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies; Powell is a senior in Woodring’s Special Education and Elementary Education programs. A fourth undergraduate, Shanyese Trujillo, a sophomore also planning on a career in elementary education, was part of the presentation planning team though she was unable to attend.
Western’s presentation centered on the students' common experiences in the Teaching-Learning Academy, as well as Curd and Trujillo’s experiences as student co-researchers in the Writing Research Fellows program that pairs faculty and students who are studying teaching writing practices. Both the Teaching-Learning Academy and the Writing Instruction Support Programs are now part of Western’s Libraries.