TLC at APSA Call

The third “TLC at APSA,” the teaching and learning conference-within-a-conference will be a virtual event as part of the APSA Virtual Annual Meeting & Exhibition.

This event seeks to promote the scholarship of teaching and learning, equip faculty with new techniques and resources for teaching, and enhance the role of teaching in the discipline of political science. Please join us for this gathering, which will provide a highly interactive forum for scholars to share innovative tools for political science education and research on the scholarship of teaching and learning. This year’s TLC at APSA theme is “Teaching Democratic Principles through Political Science Education.” We welcome submissions that are in keeping with the overall Annual Meeting theme of “Democracy, Difference, and Destabilization”. We are particularly interested in proposals that explore the ways in which we teach the principles of democracy, how we assess and evaluate those lessons, and to what extent it is our responsibility to emphasize the power of democratic participation in classrooms and communities.

There will be two presentation formats: paper presentations and workshops. Papers will be presented in one of three track working groups:

  • Civic Engagement Education
  • Simulations & Games
  • Technology and Innovative Pedagogy in the Classroom
  • Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Classroom

Paper proposals are welcome on a variety of topics, including innovative pedagogical methods and techniques, assessment, experiential learning, simulations, curriculum development, deliberation in the physical classroom and online as well as in community engaged pedagogies, the impact and influence of diversity and difference(s) on inclusive instruction, and more. Accepted papers will be presented in a working group “track session” format similar to the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference.

Workshops should be designed to be highly interactive and provide hands-on experience, demonstrating a learning tool or technique which participants could immediately implement in the classroom. Workshops are 90 minutes and examples include: creating campus-wide civic engagement initiatives, using in-class debate to enhance student learning, and techniques for discussing difficult issues in the classroom.

We invite proposals from all educators who teach political science and related subjects—university and college faculty, administrators, high school teachers, graduate students, research scholars, and others.

Registration
All participants must be registered for the 2020 APSA Virtual Annual Meeting & Exhibition in order to attend the TLC at APSA. In addition to the annual meeting’s transition to a virtual meeting, TLC at APSA registration fees will be waived as part of the virtual meeting.

Committee Co-chairs:

  • Jyl Josephson, Rutgers University-Newark
  • Amber Dickinson, Washburn Universitys