Fall 2015 Faculty Learning Community Application

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The STEM Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is pleased to announce the formation of faculty and professional learning communities (FLCs) for Fall 2015. Faculty Learning Communities are groups of faculty and staff engaged in regular meetings to share and increase knowledge about teaching and learning, and to increase motivation, pursue innovation, and become more scholarly in teaching approaches. Faculty and staff participants will be selected from an applicant pool interested in Assessment, Integrated Learning Across Disciplines (Collaborative Learning), Service Learning, Student Engagement, and Effective Teaching in the STEM Disciplines, and will focus on how to utilize these strategies to improve student learning.

For your reference, descriptions of the Faculty Learning Communities offered next Fall are as follows:

Assessment (Course, Program and Institution Wide)

This FLC will focus on assessment of student learning at all levels. This multi-disciplinary faculty will participate in a collaborative process to review classroom assessment techniques, as well as assess the general education goals of the college. FLC participants will build consensus on a set of tools (assignments, rubrics, curricular maps) that can be used to collect and analyze student work.

Service Learning

This FLC will focus on understanding and incorporating Service Learning into an existing class. Service learning is an exciting way to help students enhance their academic skills by applying what they have learned in your course to the world beyond the classroom. It can also help faculty to expand their scholarly profiles and establish community partners.

Promoting Student Engagement

This FLC will review and research various options for engaging students in the classroom environment through the use of innovative techniques and strategies, such as organized games, flipped classrooms, response devices, teamwork exercises, cases studies and other discipline specific activities.

Integrative Learning Across Disciplines (Formerly referred to as The Learning Community Project)

Participants of this FLC will create interdisciplinary activities, lessons and assignments in response to the results of chemical and microbial analysis of soil samples from the OHC campus. Political and social implications of the findings will also be considered.

Effective Teaching in the STEM Disciplines

This cohort-based FLC serves to bring faculty together from the STEM fields in order to promote collaborations across the disciplines and explore pedagogical approaches to teaching in the STEM disciplines. Faculty will share strategies which work best to improve student success in STEM.

Future FLC Topics May Include:

Fostering Classroom Inclusion
Flipping the Class
Teaching and Learning with the iPad
Deep Reading and Information Literacy
Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Transition from College to Workforce
21st Century Pedagogies and Approaches to Teaching
Multimedia Literacy
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Teaching with Technology
Supporting Adjunct Faculty
Creating an Environment for Creativity and Innovation
Classroom of the Future
Critical Thinking and the First Year Student
Envisioning Meaning and Visual Literacy
Backward Course Design in Action
Active Learning Spaces

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