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Are you interested in receiving feedback on innovative teaching strategies you’re using or considering implementing?
Would you like to meet and collaborate with faculty from across the campus?
  • Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) can help enhance a sense of community among faculty and offer opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations and dialogue about teaching and learning.
  • FLCs can provide effective “deep learning” that encourages and supports faculty members as they explore, practice, assess, and adopt new methods of teaching.
  • Faculty Learning Communities (each consisting of about 8-10 NSC faculty) will meet every three or four weeks during the semester.
  • Each FLC will focus on a topic (e.g., promoting student engagement, effective teaching practices, how learning works, collaborative learning techniques, teaching with technology).
  • The Faculty Learning Community (FLC), led by its facilitator or co-facilitators, determines its own schedule and activities but may choose to discuss selected readings, share ideas and projects, solicit peer feedback, and attend activities together.
  • FLCs typically are either a) theoretical and discussion-based or b) project-based.
  • Each FLC member is encouraged to identify a particular goal/outcome or project/product that s/he will work on and share with the FLC.
  • For the FLC to be successful, each member should commit to active participation (at least 75% attendance of FLC meetings and activities) and contribute to discussions.