Millennial Learning: April 16-17, 2009
Milton Cox
Fostering Intellectual Development: Suggestions for Instructors as Teachers and Learners

Milton D. Cox is Director of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching at Miami University, where he founded and directs the National Lilly Conference on College Teaching. He is founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, and facilitates the Hesburgh Award-winning Teaching Scholars faculty learning community. Milt also is project director of a FIPSE grant establishing faculty learning community programs on other campuses and is co-editor of the book Building Faculty Learning Communities. He incorporates the use of student learning portfolios and Howard Gardner's concept of multiple intelligences in his mathematics classes. He is recipient of the C.C. MacDuffee Award for distinguished service to Pi Mu Epsilon, the national mathematics honorary, and a certificate of special achievement from the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education in recognition and appreciation of notable contributions to the profession of faculty, instructional, and organizational development.

Fostering Intellectual Development: Suggestions for Instructors as Teachers and Learners

Perry, Belenky et al., and Baxter Magolda have produced models describing phases of student intellectual development in higher education. In this session we will examine these models and indicate ways that instructors as teachers can recognize and provide opportunities for students to understand and engage various positions, disequilibria, and transition. We will also indicate ways that instructors can encounter these phases from their perspectives as learners in the area of teaching and learning.