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Developing Faculty Learning Communities at Two-Year Colleges by Sipple Lightner
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Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN-10
1579228453
ISBN-13
9781579228453
eBay Product ID (ePID)
159962525
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Developing Faculty Learning Communities at Two-Year Colleges : Collaborative Models to Improve Teaching and Learning
Subject
Collaborative & Team Teaching, Higher, Teaching Methods & Materials / General
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Education
Format
Trade Paperback
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11.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
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Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2012-039480
Dewey Edition
23
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eoeThis really wonderful book is a must for faculty members and faculty developers, whether they work through formal learning communities or not. Practical, detailed case histories, generously amplified with references to relevant research and best practice, show how faculty, working together, can use simple types of classroom inquiry to analyze and improve learning in their community college classrooms.e, 'This really wonderful book is a must for faculty members and faculty developers, whether they work through formal learning communities or not. Practical, detailed case histories, generously amplified with references to relevant research and best practice, show how faculty, working together, can use simple types of classroom inquiry to analyze and improve learning in their community college classrooms.', This really wonderful book is a must for faculty members and faculty developers, whether they work through formal learning communities or not. Practical, detailed case histories, generously amplified with references to relevant research and best practice, show how faculty, working together, can use simple types of classroom inquiry to analyze and improve learning in their community college classrooms., 'This book's focus on faculty joining together across disciplinary divisions to talk about and improve the quality of their teaching addresses the problems of inadequate preparation and support for teaching that most have encountered; and, at the same time, breaks down the damaging intra-disciplinary isolation in which many work. The value of the type of faculty learning communities exemplified in this book is amply supported by a formidable body of research. Faculty and faculty developers will learn much of value from this book', eoeThis booke(tm)s focus on faculty joining together across disciplinary divisions to talk about and improve the quality of their teaching addresses the problems of inadequate preparation and support for teaching that most have encountered; and, at the same time, breaks down the damaging intra-disciplinary isolation in which many work. The value of the type of faculty learning communities exemplified in this book is amply supported by a formidable body of research. Faculty and faculty developers will learn much of value from this booke, This book's focus on faculty joining together across disciplinary divisions to talk about and improve the quality of their teaching addresses the problems of inadequate preparation and support for teaching that most have encountered; and, at the same time, breaks down the damaging intra-disciplinary isolation in which many work. The value of the type of faculty learning communities exemplified in this book is amply supported by a formidable body of research. Faculty and faculty developers will learn much of value from this book
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
378.1250973
Table Of Content
Foreword Milton D. Cox Introduction--Susan Sipple and Robin Lightner 1. Collecting Evidence About What Works. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning FLC--Robin Lightner 2. Peer Review of Scholarly Teaching. Formative Feedback for Change--Janice Denton, Susan Sipple, and Lesta Cooper-Freytag 3. Redesigning Courses From the Ground Up. From Outcomes to Assessment to Activities--Ruth Benander 4. Ties That Bind. Enhancing Feelings of Connectivity With an Adjunct Faculty Learning Community--Ronald A. Elizaga and Traci Haynes 5. Self-Regulated Learning. Focus on Feedback--Charlotte Skinner 6. Addressing Critical Thinking in Two-Year Colleges--Sarah Cummins-Sebree and Frank Wray 7. Assessment Incognito. Design Thinking and the Studio Learning FLC--Joanne Munroe 8. Smart Connections. Transfer of Learning and First-Year Student Success--Ruth Benander, Robin Lightner, and Gene Kramer 9. Learning Technology in a Community. Design Your Own Spring Break--Rhonda Berger and Patrick Nellis 10. The Teacher Scholar Inquiry Group. Building a Teaching Commons Among Two-Year and Four-Year Faculty--Ellen Lynch and Margaret Cheatham 11. Writers Groups. Composing a Balanced Faculty--Brenda Refaei, Susan Sipple, and Claudia Skutar About the Contributors Index
Synopsis
This book introduces community college faculty and faculty developers to the use of faculty learning communities (FLCs) as a means for faculty themselves to investigate and surmount student learning problems they encounter in their classrooms, and as an effective and low-cost strategy for faculty developers working with few resources to stimulate innovative teaching that leads to student persistence and improved learning outcomes. Two-year college instructors face the unique challenge of teaching a mix of learners, from the developmental to high-achievers, that requires using a variety of instructional strategies and techniques. Even the most experienced teachers can find this diversity demanding. Faculty developers at many two-year colleges still rely solely on the one-day workshop model that, while useful, rarely results in sustained student-centered changes in pedagogy or the curriculum, and may not be practicable for the growing cohort of part-time faculty members. By linking work in the classroom with scholarship and reflection, FLCs provide participants with a sense of renewed engagement and stimulate collegial exploration of ways to achieve educational excellence. FLCs are usually faculty-instigated and cross-disciplinary, and comprise groups of six to fifteen faculty that work collaboratively through regular meetings over an extended period of time to promote research and an exchange of experiences, foster community, and develop the scholarship of teaching. FLCs alleviate burnout and isolation, promote the development, testing, and peer review of new classroom strategies or technologies, and lead to the reenergizing and professionalization of teachers. This book introduces the reader to FLCs and to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, offering examples of application in two-year colleges. Individual chapters describe, among others, an FLC set up to support course redesign; an "Adjunct Connectivity FLC" to integrate part-time faculty within a department and collaborate on the curriculum; a cross-disciplinary FLC to promote student self-regulated learning, and improve academic performance and persistence; a critical thinking FLC that sought to define critical thinking in separate disciplines, examine interdisciplinary cross-over of critical thinking, and measure critical thinking more accurately; an FLC that researched the transfer of learning and developed strategies to promote students' application of their learning across courses and beyond the classroom. Each chapter describes the formation of its FLC, the processes it engaged in, what worked and did not, and the outcomes achieved. Just as when college faculty fail to remain current in their fields, the failure to engage in continuing development of teaching skills, will equally lead teaching and learning to suffer. When two-year college administrators restrain scholarship and reflection as inappropriate for the real work of the institution they are in fact hindering the professionalization of their teaching force that is essential to institutional mission and student success. When FLCs are supported by leaders and administrators, and faculty learn that collaboration and peer review are valued and even expected as part of being a teaching professional, they become intrinsically motivated and committed to collaboratively solving problems, setting the institution on a path to becoming a learning organization that is proactive and adept at navigating change., This book introduces community college faculty and faculty developers to the use of faculty learning communities (FLCs) as a means for faculty themselves to investigate and surmount student learning problems they encounter in their classrooms, and as an effective and low-cost strategy for faculty developers working with few resources to stimulate innovative teaching that leads to student persistence and improved learning outcomes.Two-year college instructors face the unique challenge of teaching a mix of learners, from the developmental to high-achievers, that requires using a variety of instructional strategies and techniques. Even the most experienced teachers can find this diversity demanding.Faculty developers at many two-year colleges still rely solely on the one-day workshop model that, while useful, rarely results in sustained student-centered changes in pedagogy or the curriculum, and may not be practicable for the growing cohort of part-time faculty members.By linking work in the classroom with scholarship and reflection, FLCs provide participants with a sense of renewed engagement and stimulate collegial exploration of ways to achieve educational excellence. FLCs are usually faculty-instigated and cross-disciplinary, and comprise groups of six to fifteen faculty that work collaboratively through regular meetings over an extended period of time to promote research and an exchange of experiences, foster community, and develop the scholarship of teaching. FLCs alleviate burnout and isolation, promote the development, testing, and peer review of new classroom strategies or technologies, and lead to the reenergizing and professionalization of teachers.This book introduces the reader to FLCs and to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, offering examples of application in two-year colleges. Individual chapters describe, among others, an FLC set up to support course redesign; an "Adjunct Connectivity FLC" to integrate part-time faculty within a department and collaborate on the curriculum; a cross-disciplinary FLC to promote student self-regulated learning, and improve academic performance and persistence; a critical thinking FLC that sought to define critical thinking in separate disciplines, examine interdisciplinary cross-over of critical thinking, and measure critical thinking more accurately; an FLC that researched the transfer of learning and developed strategies to promote students' application of their learning across courses and beyond the classroom. Each chapter describes the formation of its FLC, the processes it engaged in, what worked and did not, and the outcomes achieved.Just as when college faculty fail to remain current in their fields, the failure to engage in continuing development of teaching skills, will equally lead teaching and learning to suffer. When two-year college administrators restrain scholarship and reflection as inappropriate for the real work of the institution they are in fact hindering the professionalization of their teaching force that is essential to institutional mission and student success.When FLCs are supported by leaders and administrators, and faculty learn that collaboration and peer review are valued and even expected as part of being a teaching professional, they become intrinsically motivated and committed to collaboratively solving problems, setting the institution on a path to becoming a learning organization that is proactive and adept at navigating change., This book introduces the reader to FLCs and to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, offering examples of application in two-year colleges.
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