Submit Proposals for the APSA Teaching & Learning Mini-Conference at the 2018 Annual Meeting

Proposals for the APSA Teaching and Learning Mini-Conference at the 2018 Annual Meeting are due February 20

The Teaching and Learning Mini-Conference will take place Saturday, September 1, 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts as part of the 2018 APSA Annual Meeting. This full-day 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 conference theme focuses on political science education in contentious times.

Submit your proposals here.

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

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, and more. 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. Accepted papers will be presented in a working group format similar to the Teaching and Learning Conference.

Deadline for proposal submissions: February 20, 2018