Education
Doctor
of Philosophy in Speech Communication with Emphasis in English as a
Second
Language.
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. May 1992.
Dissertation: Instructional
Communication Concerns of International Teaching Assistants
Master
of Arts in English. Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Millersville, PA. August 1985.
Degree
for Teaching Junior High School in English and History. Pädagogische Akademie der Erzdiözese
Wien, 1210 Wien, Austria. June 1980.
Professional Experience
Assistant
Director and Teaching
Consultant.
Center for Teaching Effectiveness. University of Delaware.
August 1997 to Present.
- Provide
instructional assistance to faculty and graduate teaching assistants
(TAs) from various disciplines to enhance their teaching effectiveness.
- Conduct
workshop sessions and presentations on issues of learning and teaching.
- Consult
with departments on issues related to teaching effectiveness, faculty
evaluation, and curricular reform.
- Coordinate
teaching certification program for graduate students.
- Teach graduate courses focused on
aspects of pedagogical, professional and academic career development.
- Design
and implement the annual, university-wide TA conference.
- Coordinate campus-wide teaching
symposia.
- Direct the Lilly-East Conference
on College & University Teaching.
- Serve on University committees aimed at
improvement of instruction and student learning.
- Author
instructional materials and Center
publications, maintain Center website.
- Supervise
and mentor graduate assistants.
- Assist
Director with administrative responsibilities, manage the budget.
Teaching
Consultant.
Center for Teaching Effectiveness. University of Delaware.
November
1996 to July 1997.
- Worked
on special projects such as TA training committee and development of
Center website.
- Designed
and managed National
Institute for New
Faculty Developers.
Instructor. Continuing Education, Berks Lehigh Valley College of Penn State.
Fall
1996.
- Taught
undergraduate-level course on Principles of Public Speaking.
Educational
Consultant. Berks Lehigh Valley College of Penn State.
Spring
1996.
- Designed
and conducted a formative evaluation process of faculty academic
advising.
- Presented
a comprehensive written report to the Director of Academic Affairs.
Instructional
Development Specialist.
Center for Instructional Development and Research,
The University of Washington.
June 1990 to June 1995.
- Provided
instructional support to faculty and graduate TAs in the College of Architecture and the College of Arts and Sciences.
- Advised
and assisted departments in these colleges with the preparation of TAs:
Designed and facilitated discipline-specific workshops and
instructional proseminars.
- Helped
faculty and TAs collect and analyze student feedback data at midterm
for formative purposes, discussed ways to implement the feedback.
- Mentored
novice instructional consultants and offered training sessions for
them.
- Worked
with the International Teaching Assistant (ITA) Program staff to
coordinate and administer a university-wide, mandatory, and year-long
preparation program for ITAs.
- Consulted
with ITAs and international faculty on issues related to college
teaching, cultural sensitivity and language for instructional purposes.
- Conducted
research designed to assist in the enhancement of ITA training programs.
- Authored
a university-wide brochure that introduces parents and first-year
students to the roles and responsibilities of TAs at the University of Washington.
- Designed
and conducted ongoing ITA Program evaluation.
Professional experience
prior to 1990 available upon request.
Publications
Bauer, G. (2007). Blended learning: Focusing
on effective teaching through online discussions and concept mapping.
In C. Ross & J. Dunphy (Eds.), Techniques for TA/ITA development.
Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing/Jossey-Bass.
Bauer, G. (2007). Teaching
portfolio overview: Peer and whole group discussion. In C. Ross
& J. Dunphy (Eds.), Techniques
for TA/ITA development. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing/Jossey Bass.
Bauer,
G., Bauer, K., & Abraham, A. (2003).
General education and assessment at research universities: The case of
the University of Delaware.
Peer Review, 5(4). Washington,
DC:
Association of American Colleges
& Universities.
Brandl, K., &
Bauer, G. (2003). Student
perceptions of novice teachers' input strategies in beginning-level
foreign
language classes. In W. Davis, J. Smith &
R. Smith
(Eds.), Graduate teaching assistants prepare for today and tomorrow.
Stillwater, OK:
New Forums Press.
Fink, D.,
& Bauer, G.
(2001). Getting started in one-on-one instructional consulting:
Suggestions for
new consultants. In K. Lewis & J. Povlacs Lunde (Eds.), Face to
face: A
sourcebook of individual consultation techniques for
faculty/instructional developers
(pp. 21-44). Stillwater, OK: New Forums Press.
Bauer, G., Freisem, K.,
Grove, C., & A. Mathur. (1998, Winter). Departmental TA program
coordinators: Partners in enhancing campus-wide training of
international
graduate teaching assistants. The
Journal
of Graduate Teaching Assistant Development, 6(2), 73-82.
Bauer,
G. (1997). Instructional contexts: Effect of classroom environments. In
K.
Brinko, & R. Menges (Eds.), Instructional
consultation in
higher education: Handbook of principles and practices (pp.
197-210). Stillwater, OK: New Forums Press.
Bauer,
G. (1996). Addressing special considerations when working with
international
teaching assistants. In J. Nyquist, & D. Wulff, Working
with graduate assistants (pp. 84-104). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
Publications prior to 1996 available upon request.
Conference
Presentations
“Preparing for faculty roles in a time of change: Responsive approaches to academic career preparation." (conference session) Submitted for presentation with Linda vonHoene and Sabrina Soracco, University of California-Berkeley at the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) Conference, San Diego, CA, April 2009.
"Weaving reflective practice into graduate student academic career preparation." (roundtable session) Accepted for presentation at the Professional & Organizational Development (POD) Conference, Reno, NV, October 2008.
“Blended learning:
Opportunities for graduate student professional development programs." (conference session) Presented at the Professional
& Organizational Development (POD)
Conference, Pittsburgh,
PA, October 2007.
"Why do I need to change?
Consulting with reluctant faculty." (rountable session) Presented
with Carol A. Weiss at the POD Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2007.
"Learning from students:
Aligning our teaching and their learning." (conference session)
Presented at the Lilly-East Conference on College & University
Teaching, Newark, DE, April 2007.
"Graduate
teaching certification programs:
An
effective hybrid model.” (conference session) Presented at the POD
Conference, Milwaukee, WI, October 2005.
"Change
or choice: Faculty developer service on campus committees."
(rountable session) Presented with Carol A. Weiss at the POD
Conference, Milwaukee, WI, October 2005.
“Online internal grant process:
An
effective
means to infuse and sustain general education goals.” (conference
session) Presented with Martha Carothers and Catherine Davies at the AAC&U
Conference, Atlanta, GA, February 2005.
“Teaching
certification programs for graduate
students: Getting started.” (roundtable session) Presented at the
POD Conference, Montreal, Canada, November 2004.
“Individual teaching
consultations with faculty.”
(pre-conference session) Presented with Carol A. Weiss at the POD
Conference, Denver, CO, October 2003.
"Training ITAs in
critical reflection."
(discussion session) Presented with Katharine Schneider at the Teachers
of
English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Convention, Baltimore, MD, March 2003.
“A comprehensive plan for
general education
assessment: A case study at The University of Delaware.”
(competitive
paper) Presented with Karen Bauer at the AAC&U Network Conference, Philadelphia, PA, February 2003.
“Engaging faculty: Designing effective
workshop
sessions and other instructional programs.” (pre-conference
session)
Presented with Carol A. Weiss at the
POD
Conference, Atlanta, GA,
October 2002.
“A framework for assessing
problem-based learning
at the University of Delaware.” (competitive paper)
Presented with Karen Bauer & Joseph Revelt at the Problem-Based Learning
(PBL) Conference, Baltimore, MD, June 2002.
“Individual teaching
consultations with faculty.”
(pre-conference session) Presented with Carol A. Weiss at the (POD
Conference, St.
Louis, MS, October 2001.
"Graduate
TAs in PBL courses: Models for
best practice." (workshop) Presented with Barbara Duch and Beth
Jones
at the PBL Conference, Birmingham, AL, October 2000.
Presentations
prior to 2000 available upon request.
Service to Profession
Conference
Director.
Lilly-East
Conference on College & University Teaching, University of Delaware, 2005-current.
Conference
Planning Team Member. POD
Network in Higher Education, 2002-current.
Proposal
Reviewer.
Annual Conference of the POD Network in Higher Education, 2002-current.
Graduate Student
Professional Development Committee. POD Network in Higher Education,
2000-current.
Review Board. The Journal of Faculty Development,
1999-current.
Review Board. Studies in Graduate and Professional Student Development, 2008.
Proposal Reviewer.
International Consortium of Educational Development (ICED), 2008.
Experienced Faculty
Developers’ Committee, POD Network in Higher Education, 2003–2005.
Book
Reviewer.
The National Teaching & Learning Forum, 2003.
Co-Chair, Professional
Development
Committee for New Faculty Developers, POD Network in Higher Education,
2001-2002.
Consultant. ATE Grant, National Science Foundation, Delaware Technical & Community College. 2000-2001.
Coordinator. National Institute for New
Faculty Developers, University of Delaware and the POD Network in
Higher
Education, July 1997 and July 2000.
Chair.
International Teaching
Assistant (ITA) Interest Section, TESOL, 1999-2000.
Planning
Committee Member. 6th
National Conference on the Education and Employment of Graduate
Teaching Assistants, Minnesota, 1997.
Steering
Committee Member.
International Conference on the Education and Employment of Graduate
Teaching Assistants, Minnesota, 1997.
Invited
Manuscript Reviewer. The
Beginning Teacher's Handbook, Borg S. SAGE Publications, April
1997.
Invited
Reviewer. 1996
ITA Bibliography, The University of Michigan, English Language
Institute,
October 1996.
Program
Organizer.
ITA Preconvention Institute, "Reflective Teaching and Student Learning:
Considerations in ITA Training" with Virginia Maurer (Harvard
University)
and Lynn DiPietro (Duke University), TESOL Convention, Chicago, IL,
March 1996.
Service to University
University
Educational Assessment Council Member, current.
Task force on Teaching Assistants,
Teaching Effectiveness, and Preparing Future Generations of Faculty,
current.
Judge, Exemplary Use of Technology
in Teaching Contest, current.
Academic
Search Committee Member, Fall 2004, Spring 2007.
Instructional
Grants Review Committee Member,
2000-current.
Faculty
Senate Committee Member on Grade Inflation, Spring 2004-Spring 2005.
Consultant. Howard Hughes Medical
Institute grant, 2003.
Grant
Project Evaluator. MAC LINC
Leadership Development Initiative, Kellogg Foundation. 2000-2004.
Qualitative
Researcher and Project Evaluator. The Pew Charitable Trusts grant
on problem-based learning (PBL), 1999-2003.
Professional
Associations
Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U)
American
Council on Education (ACE), Office of Women in Higher Education,
Delaware Chapter
Professional
and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education
Tri-State
Teaching and Learning Consortium
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