Session B - Transforming Teaching and Learning at the Root: A Grassroots Approach to Faculty Development (Georgia College & The Evergreen State College) (Virtual Presenters)

Session Information

Title: Transforming Teaching and Learning at the Root: A Grassroots Approach to Faculty Development
Session: 11:30 - 12:20 P.M.
Location: FCSI 121
Author(s):
- Cynthia Alby, Professor of Teacher Education
- Karynne Kleine, Professor of Teacher Education
- Julia Metzker, Director of the Washington Center for Improving Undergraduate Education
- Caralyn Zehnder, Senior Lecturer in Biology

Abstract

Our recent text, “Learning that Matters: A Field Guide to Course Design for Transformative Education” codifies our grassroots experiences teaching and supporting faculty at two COPLAC institutions. Through ongoing work with diverse faculty and faculty developers, we have observed that teaching in higher education has become an isolating, frustrating, and exhausting enterprise that diminishes our capacity to uphold the values that brought us to the academy - namely the opportunity to integrate disciplinary pursuits with a commitment to transformation through meaningful education. Supporting teaching through transformative course design offers a pathway for re-enchantment with teaching through developing strong relationships with colleagues that coalesce into an enduring learning community. In this workshop, we will explore how participants can build faculty learning communities that elevate the public liberal arts educational mission by centering teaching, enacting positive change that promotes more equitable outcomes, and supporting faculty renewal.

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Resources:

"The Catalyst" Jonah Berger