Penn State Professor Emeritus Dr. Mary Ellen Weimer will present a workshop at UALR Thursday, Feb. 18 and Friday, Feb. 19, on “Growing Teachers and Promoting Learning.”

Sponsored by UALR’s Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence, Weimer will present three sessions open to faculty.  Her keynote speech, “Teaching that Promotes Learning,” will be from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18, in Dickinson Hall auditorium.  She will also present two workshop sessions on Friday, Feb. 19: “Successfully Implementing Change,” from 9 a.m. to noon at the Donaghey Student Center Room G and “Assumptions that Grow Teachers,” from 1 to 3:30 p.m., in DSC Room G.

Weimer, a winner of Penn State’s Milton S. Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching, just finished a book, “Inspired College Teaching: A Career-Long Resource for Professional Growth,” to be released by Jossey-Bass in March. She also served as the associate director of the National Center on Postsecondary Teaching, Learning and Assessment – a five-year, $5.9 million U. S. Department of Education research and development center.

Attendance for the UALR events is free, but space is limited. To make a reservation for workshop sessions, call 501-682-8459 or e-mail atle@ualr.edu.

Since 1987, Weimer has edited “Teaching Professor,” a monthly newsletter on college teaching with 15,000 subscribers. She edited or authored eight books including a 1990 book on faculty development, a 1993 book on teaching for new faculty, and a 1995 anthology edited with Robert Menges, “Teaching on Solid Ground.”

She was primary author of a Kendall-Hunt publication, “Teaching Tools,” a collection of collaborative, active and inquiry-based approaches to be used in conjunction with “Biological Perspectives,” a National Science Foundation-funded introductory biology text, created by Biological Sciences Curriculum Studies.

Weimer has consulted with more than 450 colleges and universities on instructional issues and has published numerous articles in referred journals, book chapters, and books reviews, as well as served on the editorial boards of journals. She regularly keynotes national meetings and regional conferences.