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and the college’s ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
and the college’s ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Sherrerd Center for Teaching & Learning
Bass Hall 416 & Seelye Hall B8
Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063
The Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning was founded in 2009 through a generous bequest from the family of Kathleen Compton Sherrerd ’54 and John J. F. Sherrerd, longtime supporters of excellence in teaching at Smith College. The center enables the academic success of all Smith students through faculty development efforts that support teaching and learning at the college.
New at the Sherrerd Center
Sherrerd Idea Swaps
The Sherrerd Center held a series of Idea Swaps in Spring 2020 to facilitate conversations about what worked well and what could have gone better in our switch to remote teaching in March. More than 100 faculty and staff attended these Idea Swaps and shared their best thinking about their courses in the Spring with an eye toward the Fall. We have created a summary document that includes both the high-level themes that emerged from our Idea Swaps and that feel relevant to all courses we teach as well as thoughts and ideas that emerged from the individual Idea Swaps. We hope all people who teach at Smith will find this a useful document as they think about framing their courses for the Fall.
Theme for 2019–20: Partnership
Just as we at the Sherrerd Center believe that there are many different ways to teach well and that all teaching is improvable, we also understand that there are different kinds of partnerships (student-faculty, peer instructor, institutional, community, etc.), and all partnerships are improvable. Learn more about this year’s theme.
Administration/Leadership
Sara Pruss
Director of the Sherrerd Center
Professor of Geosciences
Sherry Wingfield
Sherrerd Center Coordinator
Advisory Board
2019–20 Members
Jean Ferguson
Director of Learning, Research, and Technology
Angie Hauser
Associate Professor of Dance (Sabbatical 2019-20)
Susannah Howe
Design Clinic Director, Senior Lecturer in Engineering (Sabbatical 2019-20)
Borjana Mikic
Rosemary Bradford Hewlett 1940 Professor of Engineering
Roisin O'Sullivan
Professor of Economics
Cornelia Pearsall
Professor of English Language & Literature
Beth Powell
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Al Rudnitsky
Professor of Education & Child Study
Kevin Shea
Professor of Chemistry
Tina Wildhagen
Associate Professor of Sociology
Sujane Wu
Associate Professor of Chinese Language & Literature