faculty learning community timeline for inquiry
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SEMESTER ONE: FACULTY LEARNING COMMUNITY <br />
TIMELINE FOR INQUIRY <br />
wk 1 1/30 Introduction to FLC Experience<br />
wk 2 2/06 FLC Goals<br />
wk 3 2/13 Active Learning<br />
wk 4 2/20 Introduction to Socratic Questioning<br />
wk 5 2/27 Socratic Questioning-Asking Questions that Take Thinking<br />
Apart<br />
wk 6 3/06 Socratic Questioning-Using Intellectual Standards to Assess<br />
Thinking<br />
3/13 SPRING BREAK<br />
wk 7 3/20 How to Teach Students to Assess Their Own Work: The Tactics<br />
wk 8 3/27 How to Teach Students to Read Well<br />
wk 9 4/03 How to Teach Students to Write Well<br />
wk10 4/10 Summary
FACULTY LEARNING COMMUNITY <br />
TlMELlNE FOR MEETlNG QEP GOALS FOR SPRING 06 <br />
Time<br />
Tasks<br />
FLC convenes.<br />
FLC will meet once<br />
a week beginning<br />
Januay 30 and<br />
ending April 3.<br />
Methods<br />
FLC will focus on<br />
developing students '<br />
critical thinking and<br />
reading skills.<br />
Outcomes<br />
FLCs will enable<br />
<strong>faculty</strong> to apply the<br />
foundations of CT, to<br />
investigate active<br />
<strong>learning</strong> methods across<br />
disciplines, and to<br />
establish a peer<br />
assessment and<br />
evaluation of the<br />
implementation of new<br />
teaching methods that<br />
encourage CT.<br />
Assessments<br />
Fipse Project:<br />
Learning<br />
Communities<br />
Initiative Case Study<br />
Fipse Project: Student<br />
Learning Survey <strong>for</strong><br />
Faculty<br />
Faculty Learning<br />
Community Goals<br />
inventory (Sandell,<br />
Wigley, 6 Kovalchick)<br />
Each member will<br />
write a brief<br />
account of their<br />
reflections (ideas,<br />
questions,<br />
critiques)<br />
regarding each<br />
FLC experience.<br />
Each member of<br />
FLC will design 2<br />
strategies or<br />
exercises designed<br />
to promote active<br />
<strong>learning</strong>.<br />
Each member of<br />
FLC will design 2<br />
exercises that<br />
promote two CT<br />
cognitive skillsinference,<br />
explanation, selfregulation,<br />
interpretation,<br />
evaluation, 6<br />
analysis.<br />
Teaching<br />
methodology will<br />
focus on active<br />
<strong>learning</strong>.<br />
Teaching<br />
methodology will be<br />
determined by<strong>faculty</strong><br />
member.<br />
FLC reflections will<br />
enable FLC members to<br />
be reflexive about their<br />
teaching and about FLC<br />
experience.<br />
Faculty will integrate<br />
new active earning<br />
methods into teaching<br />
strategies.<br />
Faculty will develop<br />
exercises that help<br />
develop student<br />
mastery of two CT<br />
cognitive skills<br />
Teaching Portfolio<br />
Teaching Portfolio<br />
Teaching Porrfolio<br />
Teaching Portfolio
FACULTY LEARNING COMMUNITY <br />
TIMELINE FOR MEETING QEP GOALS FOR SPRING 06 <br />
Time Tasks Methods Outcomes Assessments<br />
Sum Four FLC members Four<strong>faculty</strong> Faculty will learn how Annual SACS report.<br />
06 will attend the members will spend a to better promote CT in<br />
international week in intensive CT the classroom and will<br />
Conference on training based on the serve as facul ty mentors<br />
Critical Thinking methods endorsed by in the advancement of<br />
the Foundation <strong>for</strong> CT across the<br />
Critical Thinkinx. curriculum.<br />
Teaching Portfolio<br />
By the end of the two-semester Faculty Learning Community experience, you<br />
will have organized a teaching portfolio. The teaching portfolio includes the<br />
following: 1)materials you developed <strong>for</strong> the classroom (exercises, written<br />
assignments, etc.), 2) examples of student responses, 3) any research articles you<br />
thought were particularly interesting or relevant, 4) your reflections about each<br />
FLC experience, 5)your completed assessments.
Faculty Learning Community<br />
Program<br />
Goals<br />
Program<br />
Focus: Critical <br />
Thinking and <br />
Mini-Portfolio <br />
Cali<strong>for</strong>nia <br />
Critical Thinking <br />
This FLC Community<br />
Teaching <br />
Project <br />
The Literature<br />
Knowledge Base<br />
t)<br />
International Critical<br />
Thinking Conference<br />
t) Professional<br />
Development Day<br />
Individual & Joint Ef<strong>for</strong>ts: The <br />
Scholarship of Teaching & Learning