FLC Decoding the Disciplines - Why don’t they understand? Overcoming student learning bottlenecks
Are there parts of your courses where it seems that, no matter what you do, students always seem to struggle? Do you find yourself increasingly frustrated that students just don’t seem to get it? This is an FLC where faculty can finally spend dedicated time to diagnose what the actual issue is, consider why the issue keeps occurring, and design and implement a possible solution. Participants will use Decoding the Disciplines (Middendorf &Shopkow 2018, Pace 2017) to work collaboratively with faculty colleagues from across the university with the shared goal to improve student engagement in those parts of the curriculum where so many students seem to just check out, struggle, or make little progress.
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This FLC provides a structured time to discuss writing and get writing done! All participants will get an opportunity to have their writing workshopped to help facilitate revision and submission for peer-review.
Faculty who complete the Power Writers FLC will be awarded $250 for professional development or a stipend. This will be distributed at the completion of project activities. Missing two or more meetings will result in losing your place in the group as well as the professional development funds.
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Faculty Learning Community for Diversity Requirement Coaches
The Faculty Center invites applications from faculty to become coaches for the new diversity requirement. We are seeking individuals who are interested in learning more about the new Diversity and Equity Domestic/Global Graduation Requirements and becoming coaches to assist faculty through the process of (re)developing their courses to meet the requirement.
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UC Berkeley’s Transforming STEM Teaching FLC at CSUSM
Faculty from the Department of Biological Sciences and Physics at CSUSM have been
recently awarded a Howard Hughs Medical Instititute, Inclusive Excellence grant.
As part of this grant we will be offering a Faculty Learning Community using a program
that was developed at UC Berkeley’s Center for Teaching and Learning through a program
designed as part of an NSF-WIDER Grant, and now being broadly implemented as part
of an NSF-Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) Grant to support instructors
of STEM courses to enhance teaching practices and improve student learning gains.Appication
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Faculty Associates for Quality Online Teaching
If you have taught a class online at least one time at CSUSM, you can receive peer review feedback on your online course from a knowledgeable and trained team. This feedback is helpful for providing new resources and revisions that enhance a course beyond student evaluations Application Closed
Join your CSUSM colleagues as we read and discuss Jean Twenge’s book, iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us. We will discuss the book as well and what it may mean for our classrooms in the future. Application Closed
The Faculty Learning Community on Gamification in the Classroom
Are you interested in learning about gamifying your classroom? Redesign a course that can benefit from more student engagement? Perhaps, you just would like to borrow a few gaming elements to motivate your students and to build a positive class culture that focuses on powerful relationships … The Gamification in the Classroom FLC offers avenues for incorporating gaming principles and techniques in the learning process, proposing methods for building social skills, teamwork, and motivation, and sharing experiences along the way with fellow faculty members.Application Closed
Faculty Learning Community Hispanic Serving Institution (PASO)
The main goal is for participants to enhance one or more courses to include more Chicano/Latino related content and assignments. Participants will also learn about pedagogical strategies that are proven to be successful for students of color, the 1.5 generation, and first-generation college students.Application Closed
Faculty Learning Community: Palliative Care and Family Caregiving
Palliative care improves quality of life for patients and families facing serious or chronic illness, whatever the diagnosis or prognosis. It prevents and relieves suffering by addressing pain as well as the physical, emotional, psycho-social and spiritual problems associated with serious and chronic conditions. The demand for palliative care is growing as we all need to learn how to respond to the challenges of caring about and for loved ones suffering from serious and chronic illnesses.Application Closed
The purpose of this online faculty learning community will be to examine and discuss faculty, curriculum and student impact with the online learning experience. We will discuss the assumptions about online learning, challenges, why faculty may choose online learning or face to face, and opportunities online learning.Application Closed
The Faculty Learning Community on Gamification in the Classroom
Are you interested in learning about gamifying your classroom? Redesign a course that can benefit from more student engagement? Perhaps, you just would like to borrow a few gaming elements to motivate your students and to build a positive class culture that focuses on powerful relationships … The Gamification in the Classroom FLC offers avenues for incorporating gaming principles and techniques in the learning process, proposing methods for building social skills, teamwork, and motivation, and sharing experiences along the way with fellow faculty members.Application Closed
Writing Faculty Learning Community
This FLC provides a structured time to discuss writing and get writing done! All participants will get an opportunity to have their writing workshopped to help facilitate revision and submission for peer-review.Faculty who complete the Faculty Writing Community FLC will be awarded $250 for professional development or a stipend from the Office of Graduate Studies and Research. This will be distributed at the completion of project activities. Missing two or more meetings will result in losing your place in the group as well as the professional development funds.Application Closed
Contemplative Pedagogy for Social Justice Faculty Learning Community
In this FLC, we will read and discuss current research studies as well as texts such
as Beth Berila’s Integrating Mindfulness into Anti-Oppression Pedagogy: Social Justice in Higher Education (2015) and Laura Rendón’s Sentipensante (Sensing/Thinking)Pedagogy: Educating for Wholeness, Social Justice,
and Liberation (2014). During the FLC sessions, we will do a variety of contemplative practices
designed to help us create more inclusive, identity-safe student learning communities
that have the courage and resilience to deal with issues of social injustice. Some
themes include developing the capacity to be vulnerable, self-aware and reflexive;
valuing the struggle together; developing compassion, public love and resilienceApplication
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Community Engaged Scholarship Faculty Learning Community
Community Engaged Scholarship (CES) is centered on a mutually-beneficial collaboration between the university and a community partner outside the academy. The purpose of the collaboration is to bring together the specialized knowledge of the university with the specialized knowledge of the community to generate new knowledge that is applied to solve critical issues of interest to both. CES meets the needs of the community partner as defined and expressed by the partner, with measurable outcomes. The collaborative work is characterized by robust participation by both the university and community partners and results are disseminated to all partners and beyond.Application Closed
Propose a New FLC
Have you heard the buzz about Faculty Learning Communities? Have you thought about leading one? Because of increased interest in FLCs across campus, we want to provide a structured way for faculty/departments to propose ideas for FLCs. We are happy to continue to partner with other departments on campus!Application Closed
Lecturer Faculty Fellow/Liaison
The Lecturer Faculty Fellow/Liaison will work with the Faculty Center Director and the Associate Vice President of Faculty Affairs to increase communications to lecturer faculty and to enhance professional development opportunities for lecturers.Application Closed
Faculty Fellow for the Faculty Mentoring Program
The Faculty Mentoring Program Faculty Fellow (FMP-FF) works with the Faculty Center Director to sustain and develop the Faculty Mentoring Program. In the Faculty Mentoring Program, tenure-track and lecturer faculty volunteers are matched with first generation and/or economically disadvantaged students who are juniors or seniors. Each mentor-protégé pair establishes a constructive relationship that encourages student progress, college retention, degree completion, exploration of graduate school and career options. The goal of the program is to foster student success by reducing social estrangement and creating a university culture of positive participation and support.Application Closed
Faculty Fellow for Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice
The Faculty Fellow will work with the Faculty Center Director to sustain and provide leadership in developing and implementing diversity and multicultural training workshops and opportunities for faculty.Application Closed
Peer Review Online Course Grant for QOLT
Do you teach online? Have you heard of the Quality Online Teaching and Learning (QOLT) instrument? We are in need of 7 online courses for fall 2017 and 7 others for spring 2018 to be peer reviewed by Quality Assurance Faculty Associate.Application Closed
Designing Successful Outcomes FLC
This FLC will investigate ways to improve how we can all facilitate learning in our teaching. We can come together as faculty and actively investigate ways to change the focus away from using only an accountability lens to talk about outcomes or assessment and instead begin to view our pedagogy under a learning-centered lens that makes the best use of outcomes and assessment information.Application Closed
This FLC will help you to develop, refine, and share specific faculty practices (assignments, readings, course-based projects) that foster students' development of these competencies. Furthermore, it will help to focus attention on developing and/or refining pedagogical strategies, as well as to connect one or more of these to one or more of your course or program student learning outcomes.Application Closed
Sustainability Transforming Academics and Research (STAR) FLC
The STAR (Sustainability Transforming Academics and Research) FLC offers avenues for sharing, connecting and building upon sustainability endeavors on campus, as well as growing new ones. Application Closed
Building and Strengthening Faculty Relationships FLC
This FLC will explore ways that faculty can increase and build solidarity with each other during what promises to be a very challenging period in higher education. The FLC was inspired by data collected in the Halualani Associates Report and the Great Colleges to Work Survey. In both these reports, a significant number of faculty at CSUSM expressed a strong desire to improve communication and create a more collegial campus climate.Application Closed
Do you teach online? Have you heard of the Quality Online Teaching and Learning (QOLT) instrument? We are in need of 7 online courses for fall 2016 and 7 others for spring 2017 to be peer reviewed by Quality Assurance Faculty Associate.Application Closed
UC Berkeley’s Transforming STEM Teaching at CSUSM Math Summer Institute 2018
CSUSM is partnering with UC Berkeley’s Center for Teaching and Learning through a program designed as part of an NSF-WIDER Grant, and now being broadly implemented as part of an NSF-Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) Grant to support instructors of STEM courses to enhance teaching practices and improve student learning gains. Application Closed