UALR’s Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence will welcome Penn State Professor Emeritus Dr. Mary Ellen Weimer, as she presents a workshop on Thursday Feb. 18 and Friday Feb. 19 on “Growing Teachers and Promoting Learning. Weimer will present three sessions open to faculty. Her keynote speech, “Teaching that Promotes Learning,” will be from 1:30 to 4 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 18 in Dickinson Hall. She will also present two workshops on Friday, Feb. 19. “Successfully Implementing Change”  is from 9 a.m. to noon in DSC Room G, and “Assumptions that Grow Teachers” is from 1 to 3:30 p.m. also in DSC Room G.

Weimer is a winner of Penn State’s Milton S. Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching and she just finished writing Inspired College Teaching: A Career-Long Resource for Professional Growth, which will be released in March.

Attendance  is free, but space is limited. To make a reservation for the workshop sessions, call 682-8459.