社区 as Classroom: The Pedagogy and Practicality of 社区-based Teaching and 学习

This faculty learning community supports new and engaged scholars in their community-based teaching, learning and research through a community of practice focused on building courses with a service learning (community outreach) focus.  The format for this learning community will include brief presentations by various experienced faculty followed by extended dialogue/review of participant project ideas, 担忧, 和问题. 

Facilitators: Danielle Lake, Liberal Studies and Patty Stow Bolea, 皮尤FTLC 

Contemplative Practices in Higher Education: Powerful Methods to Transform Teaching and 学习

主持人: 贝利·赫尔曼，英语

婴儿重要吗?? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower

主持人: Gretchen Galbraith, History

How to Effectively Facilitate an 在线 Medical Terminology Course

主持人: Julia VanderMolen, Allied 健康 Sciences

Improving Teaching Effectiveness through Peer Collaboration

This Faculty 学习社区 (FLC) will provide GVSU faculty who teach at the Traverse City campus with an opportunity to engage in collaborative conversations about teaching and learning. Based on research in best practices, this FLC will aim to improve faculty teaching effectiveness via looking at student work and/or teacher tasks with structured protocols.  The focus of each meeting opportunity will be based upon questions participants wish to explore further to increase their own learning. Participants will be asked to share specific teaching strategies, 挑战, 和成功, 以及, provide formative feedback for other group members.  At the completion of this FLC, group members will be asked to submit a brief written reflection of how they plan to incorporate newly learned ideas into their teaching.

主持人:博士. Catherine Meyer-Looze, Education - Leadership & 学习

Make it Stick: The Science of Successful 学习

主持人: 克里斯汀·雷纳，皮尤国际贸易委员会

Mechanisms for Smoothly Incorporating Case Studies into a Lecture Course

主持人: Matthew Edick, Biomedical Sciences

在线 & 混合指令

Sponsored by IDeL (Instructional Design for e学习) and the Pew Faculty Teaching & 学习中心, this workshop will provide a venue for faculty-led dialogue and to share collective expertise regarding online/hybrid instruction at GVSU. Support for new and experienced online/hybrid faculty through dialogue. Explore best practices associated with online/hybrid teaching and learning. Identify emerging technological needs to support online teaching and learning, Share collective expertise across disciplines

主持人: Kim Kenward, Instructional Design for e学习

Strengths-Based领导

主持人: Kathryn Stieler, 皮尤FTLC

强势启动计划

The 学习社区 will read a text together, 分享第一年的策略, help disseminate best practices, and help to develop a survey for the entire campus to determine strategies, 的态度, and perspectives on first-year student engagement and retention. 有, 当然, a great deal of research on successful strategies for teaching first-year students, and a tremendous amount of creativity and innovation that has taken place on our campus, 在我们教师的推动下, answering to the needs of our students. The goal of the SSI is to collate both local and global solutions to the retention issues that we face and to disseminate that information on our campus and beyond. 

主持人: Kurt Ellenberger, 皮尤FTLC

Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student 学习

主持人: 克里斯汀·雷纳，皮尤国际贸易委员会

The 学习 Portfolio: Reflective Practice for Improving Student 学习

主持人: Regina Smith, Modern Languages & 文献