Designing,
Implementing, and Leading Faculty Learning Communities
Schedule Overview
Tuesday Reception: 5:30 pm
Tuesday Dinner: 6:00 pm
Tuesday Evening: 7:00-9:00 pm
- Welcome and introductions
- Getting organized
- "Finding your community" activity
- Workshop objectives and format
- A quick trip through the Program Director's and Facilitator's
Handbook
- Break out into communities to discuss assignments and determine jigsaw
groups for Saturday
Wednesday Morning: 9:00 am-12:00 Noon
- Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs)
- Questions and answers about FLC definitions, models, goals, objectives,
activities, components, facilitation, budget, etc.
- Jigsaw groups explore early-career faculty and diversity FLCs.
- Mentoring, student associates, needs, privilege, learning
- Other examples of FLCs explored: Senior Faculty, Cooperative Learning,
Problem-Based Learning, Teaching Portfolios, Team Teaching, Technology,
US Cultures Course Development, Ethics Across the Honors Curriculum,
Teaching Writing Enriched Courses, Preparing Future Faculty, Department
Chairs, Integrating the Arts and the Curriculum.
Wednesday Lunch: 12:00 Noon
Wednesday Afternoon: 1:00-4:30 pm
- Engaging in some of the activities of FLCs: focus-course syllabus
development, teaching projects, classroom assessment techniques (CATs),
course mini-portfolios, etc.
- Key seminar topics: student intellectual development; sharing student/faculty
perspectives
- The scholarship of teaching and learning
- Assessment of FLC components, faculty development outcomes, and student
learning
- Planning and initiating a faculty learning community for your campus:
first steps
Wednesday Reception: 5:30-6:00 pm
Wednesday Dinner: 6:00-8:00 pm
Wednesday Evening
Thursday Morning: 9:00 am-12:00 Noon
- Determining your role: FLC Program Director, FLC Facilitator, other
- Developing plans for initiating and implementing faculty learning
communities on your campus: models, issues, strategies, challenges,
questions
- Working on plans in communities and campus teams; consulting with
workshop leaders
- Questions, answers, and remaining topics of interest
Thursday Lunch: 12:00 Noon
Thursday Afternoon: 1:00-4:00 pm
- Finalizing implementation plans
- Reporting on plans and artifacts
- Each team/individual reports; helpful suggestions offered by participants
- Closure
- Reactions and conclusions
- Future plans: Listserv? Web site?
- Institute evaluation
Closing Ceremony: 4:00 pm
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.
