This roundtable discussion will provide a space to share and discuss the results of a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) study that examined the learning effectiveness of a course restructuring using career theories as anchors for related concepts (e.g., career assessment, counseling process, career programming, and cultural and developmental considerations). The basic research question, then, was did this work? How did the theory-as-anchor structuring of the course affect students’ ability to remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create (i.e., revised Bloom’s Taxonomy; Anderson & Sosniak, 1994) career counseling theory? Participants in the discussion will use this study’s findings to collaborate on effective instructional and course design strategies to enhance student learning and application of counseling theory in diverse settings. Program goals include review of the scholarship of teaching and learning, dissemination of research findings, scholarly discussion around future pedagogical directions in counseling theory courses, and participants will leave with ideas of their own for course design.
