What is a Faculty and Professional Learning Community?
Necessary Qualities for Building Community
The FLC Program Director's and FLC Facilitator's Handbook
The Consortium: Participating Institutions, Their Communities, and Program Directors
FLCs and the Scholarship of Teaching
Recommendations for Initiating and Implementing an FLC
FLC Conferences and Institutes in Review:
2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004
As indicated in the sequence of ten developmental steps, the literature, as in any discipline, is the foundation upon which teaching and learning rests. See the bibliography and references that have proven useful in working with FLCs, including focus books and articles for particular FLCs.
These books are given to the community members at their opening retreat. They read them over the summer or winter break. Opening seminars involve discussion of themes and issues raised in the focus book reading. These books provide important references to other works in the literature.
| Junior Faculty FLC | |
| (several years) | McKeachie, W. J. (various years). McKeachie's teaching tips: Strategies, research, and theory for college and university teachers (various editions). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. |
| (several years) | Grunert, J. (1997). The course syllabus: A learning-centered approach. Bolton, MA: Anker. |
| (several years) | Angelo, T. A., & Cross, K. P. (1993). Classroom assessment techniques: A handbook for college teachers (2nd ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. |
| Senior Faculty Learning Community for Teaching Excellence | |
| (2001-02) | Baxter Magolda, M. B. (2001). Making their own way: Narratives for transforming higher education to promote self-development. Sterling, VA: Stylus. |
| (2000-01) | Elbow, P. (2000). Everyone can write: Essays toward a hopeful theory of writing and teaching writing. New York: Oxford University Press. |
| (1999-00) | Palmer, P. J. (1998). The courage to teach: Exploring the inner landscape of a teacher's life. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. |
| (1998-99) | Levine, A., & Cureton, J. S. (1998). When hope and fear collide: A portrait of today's college student. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. |
| (1997-98) | Menges, R. J. & Weimer, M. (Eds.). (1996). Teaching on Solid Ground: Using scholarship to improve practice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. |
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Elbow, P. (1986). Embracing contraries: Explorations in teaching and learning. New York: Oxford University Press. |
| (1994-95) | Austin, A. E. & Baldwin, R. (1991). Faculty collaboration: Enhancing the quality of scholarship and teaching. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report No. 7. Washington, DC: The George Washington University |
| (1993-94) | Katz, J. & Henry, M. (1993). Turning professors into teachers: A new approach to faculty development and student learning. Phoenix, AZ: The Oryx Press. |
| (1992-93) | Schön, D. A. (1988). Educating the reflective practitioner: Toward a new design for teaching and learning in the professions. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. |
| (1991-92) | Booth, W. C. (1988) The vocation of a teacher: Rhetorical occasions, 1967-1988. Chicago: University of Chicago. |
| Department Chairs Community Enhancing Leadership and Productive Change | |
| (2006-07) | Chu, D. (2006). The department chair primer: Leading and managing academic departments. Bolton, MA: Anker. |
Learning, D. (2003). Managing people: A guide for department chairs and deans. Bolton, MA: Anker. |
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| (2005-06) | Learning, D. (1998). Academic leadership: A practical guide to chairing the department. Bolton, MA: Anker. |
| Quinn, R. E. (2004). Building the bridge as you walk on it: A guide for leading change. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. | |
| (2002-03) | Quinn, Robert. E. (1996) Deep change: Discovering the leader within. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. |
| Graduate Students Learning Community for Preparing Future Faculty | |
| (2003-04) | DeNeef, A. L. & Goodwin, C. D. (1995) The academic's handbook. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. |
| (2002-03) | Gibson G. W. (1992). Good start: A guidebook for new faculty in liberal arts colleges. Bolton, MA: Anker. |
| Department and Divisional FLCs Developing Teaching Portfolios | |
| (1993-96) | Richlin, L. & Manning, B. (1995). Improving a college/university teaching evaluation system. Pittsburgh: Alliance. |
| Seldin, P. (Ed.). (1993). Successful use of teaching portfolios. Bolton, MA: Anker. | |
| Edgerton, R. (Ed.). (1991). The teaching portfolio: Capturing the scholarship in teaching. Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education. | |
| FLC Using Difference to Enhance Teaching and Learning | |
| (2000-01) | Hooks, B. (1994). Teaching to transgress. New York: Routledge. |
| (1999-00) | Tatum, B. D. (1997). "Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" and other conversations about race. New York: Basic Books. |
| Community Using Cooperative Learning to Enhance Teaching and Learning | |
| (1999-00) | Johnson, D. W., Johnson, R. T., & Smith, K. A. (1998). Active learning: Cooperation in the college classroom. Edina, MN: Interaction. |
| FLC Using Technology to Enhance Teaching and Learning | |
| (2002-03) | Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., & Cocking, R. R. (Eds.). (2000). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. |
| (2001-02) | Moore, Gary S. et al. (2001). You Can Teach Online; Building a Creative Learning Environment. Boston: McGraw-Hill Inc. |
| (2000-01) | Palloff, R. M. & Pratt, K. (1999). Building learning communities in cyberspace. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. |
| Community Using Problem-Based Learning to Enhance Teaching and Learning | |
| (2000-02) | Wilkerson, L., & Gijselaers, W. H. (Eds.). (1996, December). Bringing problem-based learning to higher education: Theory and practice. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 68. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. |
| Community Using Team Teaching to Enhance Teaching and Learning | |
| (2000-01) | Buckley, F. J. (2000). Team teaching: What, why, and how? Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. |
| FLC on Ethics Across the Honors Curriculum | |
| (2002) | Glover, J. (2000) A moral history of the twentieth century. New Haven: Yale University Press. |
| FLC on Miami Plan (General Education) Departmental Assessment | |
| (2002-03) | Palomba, C. A. & Banta, T. W. (1999). Assessment essentials: Planning, implementing, and improving assessment in higher education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. |
| FLC on Miami Plan (General Education) Assessment and the Scholarship of Teaching | |
| (2003-04) | Palomba, C. A. & Banta, T. W. (1999). Assessment essentials: Planning, implementing, and improving assessment in higher education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. |
| FLC Connecting Humanities Disciplines and Digital Technology | |
| (2002-03) | Peters, J. D. (1999). Speaking into the air: A History of the Idea of Communication. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. |
| Gordon, G (1999). The Internet: A philosophical inquiry. London: Routledge. | |
| Coyne, R. (1999). Technoromanticism: Digital narrative, holism, and the romance of the real. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. | |
| Hayles, K. N. (1999). How we became posthuman: Virtual bodies in cybernetics literatrue and informatics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | |
| FLC Using Small Groups to Enhance Teaching and Learning | |
| (2002-03) | Millis, B. J. & Cottell, P. G. (1998). Cooperative learning for higher education faculty. Phoenix, AZ: The Oryx Press. |
| FLC Teaching Writing-Enriched Courses | |
| (2002-03) | Bean, J. (1996). Engaging ideas: the professor's guide to integrating writing, critical thinking, and active learning in the classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. |
| FLC Integrating the Arts and the Curriculum | |
| (2003) | Barron, F., Montuori, A., & Barron, A. (Eds.). (1997). Creators on creating: Awakening and cultivating the imaginative mind. New York: GP Putnam's Sons. |
| Lazzari, M. & Schlesier, D. (2002). Exploring art: A global thematic approach. Independence, KY: Thompson Wadsworth Publishing. | |
| FLC on Academic Service-Learning Pedagogy to Enhance Learning and Civic Engagement | |
| (2002-04) | Eyler, J. & Giles, D. E. (1999). Where's the learning in service-learning? San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. |
| FLC Building Team Teaching into a New Journalism Program | |
| (2003-04) | Bess, J. L. et al. (2000). Teaching alone, teaching together: Transforming the structure of teams for teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. |
| FLC Enhancing Diversity Across the Education and Allied Professions Curriculum | |
| (2003-04) | No book. Selected articles. |
This project has been supported in part by a grants from the US Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) and the Ohio Board of Regents.