The Center for Teaching and Learning will be offering FLCs during the 2014-15 Academic Year. Participating in an FLC requires a commitment to meet together 5-6 times (about every 2-3 weeks) over the course of a semester. In most cases, FLCs work over a two-semester period. In addition to the meetings, participants will read, collaborate, and make progress on individual projects between meetings. Each participant will actively contribute as responders, facilitators, peer reviewers and experts in selected areas of teaching and learning. Faculty should consider their other professional commitments before applying.<\/p>\n
2014-2015: Registration for this faculty learning community is closed!<\/em><\/p>\n Facilitator:<\/strong> Dr. Jamie Warner, 2014-2015 Hedrick Teaching Fellow,\u00a0COLA\/Political Science<\/p>\n How do you encourage students who have been introduced to learning through nonstop, high stakes, standardized testing to be creative in their thinking?\u00a0 One of Marshall\u2019s official student learning outcomes is a domain called \u201cCreative Thinking,\u201d in which students are supposed to learn to work with ambiguities and possibilities, embrace risk, and experiment with innovation.\u00a0 That sounds like a great learning outcome regardless of discipline:\u00a0 we all want innovative doctors and nurses looking for better treatments, politicians who think outside the box to solve problems, imaginative businesspeople creating products to make our lives better, and artists, musicians, and writers who push us to reexamine ourselves and our world.\u00a0 But, as the designers of courses in which we are supposed to teach students to think creatively as part of our university mission, how<\/em> exactly<\/em> do faculty do this work on the ground – \u00a0at the level of writing the syllabus, designing assignments, and thinking about grades?<\/p>\n Can something like creativity be taught?<\/p>\n In the fall semester of 2014, members of this learning community will look at both philosophical and research based texts that suggest that thinking \u201ccreatively\u201d is just as much about the structure of the incentives and assessments of the classroom as it is about the individual personalities of the students.\u00a0 In the spring, members will experiment and write up their own classroom attempts to \u201cnudge\u201d students into doing imaginative work, using pop culture, non-traditional assignments or innovative grading schemes.\u00a0 The goal of each member is to disseminate the results of their own experimentation, innovation, and risk-taking at the 2015 and\/or 2016 iPED conferences at Marshall University, other professional venues, and\/or in publication form.<\/p>\n CEIIR\u00a0FLC Schedule<\/strong>: TBA\u00a0| OM 109 – Teaching Commons<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Center for Teaching and Learning will be offering FLCs during the 2014-15 Academic Year. Participating in an FLC requires a commitment to meet together 5-6 times (about every 2-3 weeks) over the course of a semester. In most cases, FLCs work over a two-semester period. In addition to the meetings, participants will read, collaborate,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"parent":3124,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3079","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8521,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3079\/revisions\/8521"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}