FLC Developers' Institute, June 20-22, 2007
Designing, Implementing, and Leading Faculty Learning Communities
Schedule Overview
Wednesday Reception and Institute Home Community Finding Event: 5:00 pm
- This is an important initializing process, so arrive promptly at 5:00.
Wednesday Dinner: 5:30 pm
- Home communities eat at their tables, select community name and logo, and get acquainted.
Wednesday Evening: 6:30-8:30 pm
- Welcome and introductions
- Institute Overview
- Very brief introduction to FLCs
- How the institute works, the jigsaw process
- Tour through books and material we are working with: New Developer's and Facilitaor's Handbook and Building Faculty Learning Ccommunities
- Home communities discuss assignments and determine jigsaw group choices for Thursday, one jigsaw in the morning and one in the afternoon
Thursday Morning: 8:30 am-12:00 Noon
- Light breakfast
- Overview: Faculty, Learning, and Community: A Bridge to Opportunity and Change
- Jigsaw Round 1: Basic FLC Information:
- Types of FLCs, how to determine need for and select FLC types (cohort and topic), determining goals and objectives
- Selecting FLC members (applications, what to expect), seminar topics and presenters, seminar formats (retreats, attending conferences), preparing for a seminar; building community
- Student Associates, the seminar on sharing student and faculty views of teaching and learning; mentors and other associates, rewarding and thanking students and associates
- PR and recognition, support personnel, partnerships with other institutional units; determining your friends and allies; working with the provost; budget design and seeking financial support; technology and FLCs
Thursday Lunch: 12:00 Noon
Thursday Afternoon: 1:00-4:30 pm
- The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and FLCs
- Jigsaw Round 2: Scholarly Teaching, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and the Scholarship of Faculty Development
- Teaching Projects, Design (Blueprint for Learning)
- Focus course, focus books, and mini-portfolios
- Assessment of faculty development and of program components
- Assessment of FLC-related student learning
- Planning time for initiating an FLC for your campus, first steps: the Faculty Learning Community Goals Inventory
Thursday Dinner: 5:00-7:30 pm at Yannis
Thursday Evening
Friday Morning: 8:30 am - Noon
- Light breakfast
- Facilitating FLCs
- Jigsaw Round 3: Facilitating FLCs and Managing FLC Programs
- Facilitating FLCs—More details and Q & A
- The FLC Program Director: Selecting FLC facilitators, managing FLCs, support
- TGI and CATs; Student and faculty learning communities: similarities and connections
- Summary of recommendations for initiating, continuing, and institutionalizing FLCs (Handbook)
Friday Lunch 12:00 Noon: Planning Your FLC Program
Friday Afternoon: 1:00-4:30 pm
- Finalizing implementation plans
- Reporting on plans
- Each team/individual reports; helpful suggestions offered by participants
- Institute evaluation
Closing Ceremony: 4:30 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.
