Open Access8: DEVELOPING A FACULTY LEARNING COMMUNITY GROUNDED IN THE SCIENCE OF HOW PEOPLE LEARN
Author(s) -
Rudnitsky Al,
Ellis Glenn W.,
DiBartolo Patricia Marten,
Shea Kevin M.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-4822.2013.tb00702.x
Subject(s) - mandate , liberal arts education , teaching and learning center , center (category theory) , faculty development , the arts , medical education , pedagogy , learning community , professional development , psychology , mathematics education , sociology , teaching method , political science , higher education , medicine , chemistry , law , crystallography
This chapter describes a multiyear professional development effort undertaken by a learning and teaching center at a liberal arts college. As part of its founding mandate, the center helps faculty improve teaching by paying attention to the current literature about how people learn. This core commitment of our center is pursued through support of a year‐long faculty seminar. Now in its fourth year, the seminar has had a significant impact on its faculty participants and their thinking about teaching and learning. Moreover, the seminar has seeded a number of teaching and assessment initiatives at the college.