Individual Professional Development
Each undergraduate who participates in Students and Learners and Teachers (SaLT) engages in professional development that shapes their undergraduate experiences and, in many cases, their career trajectories. Through working as paid pedagogical consultants to faculty in whose courses they are not concurrently enrolled, students conduct formal and informal research to inform their partnership practice, often linking this partnership work to their major course work as well as to co-curricular roles and activities.
Below is a small sample of the individual professional development experiences of several SaLT student consultants over the last ten years:
Sophia Abbot, Bryn Mawr College class of 2015
Sophia, pictured below, developed a new approach to classroom observations as part of a classroom-focused pedagogical partnership in which she participated, which was informed as well by her independent major in “Educational Identities.”
Sasha Mathrani, Haverford College class of 2018
Sasha drew on her major course work in biology to inform the argument in her co-authored chapter, “Discerning Growth,” and she traced her professional development in an essay called “Building Relationships, Navigating Discomfort and Uncertainty, and Translating My Voice in New Contexts,” published in Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education.
Mary Cott, Haverford College class of 2021
Mary analyzed the pedagogical partnership work she experienced as a form of professional development in “Pedagogical Partnership as Professional Development for Students,” a chapter she co-authored for inclusion in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Student Voice in Higher Education, and in “Tracing the arc of my pedagogical partnerships: Guided by a commitment to community,” an essay published in International Journal for Students as Partners.
Kayo Stewart, Bryn Mawr College class of 2023
Kayo drew on her experience as a SaLT student consultant and on her research for her senior thesis in sociology to inform her career plans, as she describes in “From Student Consulting at My Liberal Arts Institution to Applying to Law School,” an essay published in Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education.