Mentoring New Scholars of Teaching and Learning: The National CASTL Institute Model

Since 2003, the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) Institute: Developing Scholars of Teaching and Learning, has been committed to providing mentoring and support for emerging scholars. After conducting the Institute for several years, the Institute planning committee designed a more formal assessment of specific outcomes experienced by participants. Interviews and surveys of former Institute participants centered on four general areas of impact: personal; classroom and students; institutions, and; professional. Lessons learned included the personal and institutional impacts the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) has on faculty and staff participants and their home institutions, the value of modeling best practices for mentoring scholarly development, and the invaluable nature of being part of a community of scholars who share SOTL interests and values.