faculty learning community timeline for inquiry

SEMESTER ONE: FACULTY LEARNING COMMUNITY
TIMELINE FOR INQUIRY
wk 1 1/30 Introduction to FLC Experience
wk 2 2/06 FLC Goals
wk 3 2/13 Active Learning
wk 4 2/20 Introduction to Socratic Questioning
wk 5 2/27 Socratic Questioning-Asking Questions that Take Thinking
Apart
wk 6 3/06 Socratic Questioning-Using Intellectual Standards to Assess
Thinking
3/13 SPRING BREAK
wk 7 3/20 How to Teach Students to Assess Their Own Work: The Tactics
wk 8 3/27 How to Teach Students to Read Well
wk 9 4/03 How to Teach Students to Write Well
wk10 4/10 Summary

FACULTY LEARNING COMMUNITY
TlMELlNE FOR MEETlNG QEP GOALS FOR SPRING 06
Time
Tasks
FLC convenes.
FLC will meet once
a week beginning
Januay 30 and
ending April 3.
Methods
FLC will focus on
developing students '
critical thinking and
reading skills.
Outcomes
FLCs will enable
faculty to apply the
foundations of CT, to
investigate active
learning methods across
disciplines, and to
establish a peer
assessment and
evaluation of the
implementation of new
teaching methods that
encourage CT.
Assessments
Fipse Project:
Learning
Communities
Initiative Case Study
Fipse Project: Student
Learning Survey for
Faculty
Faculty Learning
Community Goals
inventory (Sandell,
Wigley, 6 Kovalchick)
Each member will
write a brief
account of their
reflections (ideas,
questions,
critiques)
regarding each
FLC experience.
Each member of
FLC will design 2
strategies or
exercises designed
to promote active
learning.
Each member of
FLC will design 2
exercises that
promote two CT
cognitive skillsinference,
explanation, selfregulation,
interpretation,
evaluation, 6
analysis.
Teaching
methodology will
focus on active
learning.
Teaching
methodology will be
determined byfaculty
member.
FLC reflections will
enable FLC members to
be reflexive about their
teaching and about FLC
experience.
Faculty will integrate
new active earning
methods into teaching
strategies.
Faculty will develop
exercises that help
develop student
mastery of two CT
cognitive skills
Teaching Portfolio
Teaching Portfolio
Teaching Porrfolio
Teaching Portfolio

FACULTY LEARNING COMMUNITY
TIMELINE FOR MEETING QEP GOALS FOR SPRING 06
Time Tasks Methods Outcomes Assessments
Sum Four FLC members Fourfaculty Faculty will learn how Annual SACS report.
06 will attend the members will spend a to better promote CT in
international week in intensive CT the classroom and will
Conference on training based on the serve as facul ty mentors
Critical Thinking methods endorsed by in the advancement of
the Foundation for CT across the
Critical Thinkinx. curriculum.
Teaching Portfolio
By the end of the two-semester Faculty Learning Community experience, you
will have organized a teaching portfolio. The teaching portfolio includes the
following: 1)materials you developed for the classroom (exercises, written
assignments, etc.), 2) examples of student responses, 3) any research articles you
thought were particularly interesting or relevant, 4) your reflections about each
FLC experience, 5)your completed assessments.

Faculty Learning Community
Program
Goals
Program
Focus: Critical
Thinking and
Mini-Portfolio
California
Critical Thinking
This FLC Community
Teaching
Project
The Literature
Knowledge Base
t)
International Critical
Thinking Conference
t) Professional
Development Day
Individual & Joint Efforts: The
Scholarship of Teaching & Learning