Call for Presenters

Fourteenth Annual Regional Conference on Teaching, Learning, & Scholarship

The Center for Teaching Excellence at Frostburg State University seeks presenters for the 14th Annual Regional Conference on Teaching, Learning, & Scholarship to be held on Wednesday, August 13, 2025, at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland. The conference aims to help educators share ideas and pedagogical strategies while strengthening partnerships within the region. Proposals are encouraged from instructors and staff at regional colleges, universities, and schools.

Proposals on the following topics are encouraged

• Artificial Intelligence in Pedagogy: focusing on either the instructor, the student, or both.
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Teaching: teaching approaches that promote equity and help underrepresented populations and students with different backgrounds and abilities feel included
• Civic and Community Engagement: teaching involving collaboration with the community, service-learning projects, promoting civic engagement, and/or contributing to society
• Anti-Racist Pedagogy: how to become an anti-racist educator; ways to reflect on and increase awareness of social position and biases and apply it to teaching in your discipline; ways to promote institutional and social change
• Pedagogies of Care: teaching approaches that emphasize concern for both student well-being and performance, and highlight the relational nature of teaching
• High-Impact Practices: practices based on evidence of significant educational benefits for students. These evidence-based practices include undergraduate research, learning communities, first year seminars, capstone courses and projects, and common intellectual experiences (general education)—to name a few
• Teaching with Technology: using technology to improve learning outcomes, teaching technological fluency, providing open educational resources, or using technology to make teaching more efficient and effective. Tutorials on software platforms for teaching and learning.
• Research on Teaching and Learning: turning your own classroom innovations and activities into research on teaching and learning
• Classroom Activities: case studies demonstrating innovative classroom activities
• Small Teaching Strategies: small-scale changes that can make a big impact on student learning and are easily implemented by faculty across disciplines.
• The Science of Teaching and Learning: Connecting existing neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychology on how students learn practical implications for teaching.

Proposals should indicate one of the following formats:

• Chat & Chew Table Lead (50-minute session with multiple “table talk leads” to encourage a free-flowing exchange of ideas, questions, and insights – presenter may provide handouts/poster to engage participants), or
• 50-minute demonstration, or
• 50-minute roundtable/working group discussion topic

The mission of the Center for Teaching Excellence is to promote and foster student learning to the greatest extent possible through instructional development of the faculty.