FLC Developers' Institute, June 18-21, 2008
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
- Brief introduction to FLCs
- How the institute works, the jigsaw process
- Tour through books and materials we are working with: New Developer's and Facilitaor's Handbook and Building Faculty Learning Ccommunities
- Home communities discuss assignments, select a topic to explore as an FLC, and determine jigsaw group choices for Thursday, one jigsaw in the morning and one in the afternoon
- Homework
Thursday Morning: 8:30 am-12:00 Noon
- Light breakfast
- Plenary: Faculty, Community, and Learning: A Bridge to Opportunity and Change
- Jigsaw Round 1: Building Infrastructure:
- Types of FLCs, how to determine need for and select FLC types (cohort and topic); determining goals and objectives; FLC design
- Selecting FLC members (applications, what to expect); seminar topics and presenters, seminar formats (retreats, attending conferences); preparing for a seminar; building community
- FLC Affiliates: Student Associates and the seminar on sharing student and faculty views of teaching and learning; the Group Mentoring FLC; mentors and other associates; enablers, rewards, and recognition for FLC participants, students, and other associates
- PR and Recognition, partnerships with other institutional units; determining and cultivating your friends and allies; working with the provost; budget design and financial support; technology and FLCs
Thursday Lunch: 12:00 Noon
Thursday Afternoon: 1:00-4:45 pm
- Scholarly Teaching, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and the Scholarship of Faculty Development
- Jigsaw Round 2: Building Scholarship and Evidence
- Teaching Projects and presenting and publishing SoTL
- 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 (FLCGI)
- Open space discussion opportunity
Thursday Dinner: 5:00-7:30 pm
Thursday Evening
Friday Morning: 8:30 am - Noon
- Light breakfast
- Facilitators and Facilitating FLCs
- Jigsaw Round 3: Building Direction
- Facilitating FLCs—More details and Q & A
- The FLC Program Director: Selecting FLC facilitators, managing FLCs, support
- Summary of recommendations for initiating, continuing, and institutionalizing FLCs and an FLC Program
- Potpurri of FLC related items: the Teaching Goals Inventory (TGI) and Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs); Small Group Instructional Diagnosis (SGID); videotaping teaching; course learning objectives; rubrics
Friday Lunch 12:00 Noon: Planning Your FLC Program
Friday Afternoon: 1:00-4:30 pm
- Working on implementation plans
- Institute evaluation
Friday Dinner with Planning Teams
Saturday Morning
- Light breakfast
- FLC Conference Keynote
- FLC Conference Presentations by Institute Teams and Individuals of plans for initializing FLCs back home
Saturday Lunch: 12:00 Noon
Saturday Afternoon: 1:00-3:45pm
- Conference Presentations at Concurrent Sessions
- Institute Graduation Ceremony
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.
