Creating Active Pathways
to Student Learning
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SEPCHE Learning to Learn Project
Exploring New Ways of Advancing
Student Learning in the Arts and Sciences
Online Application | Project Summary | Project Outline
Faculty Application to Participate in Collegium
Opportunity and Purpose
Full-time faculty who teach core courses in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences at SEPCHE colleges and universities are invited to submit an application to participate in a SEPCHE Collegium that will convene a group of sixteen faculty members, led by a leadership team of two conveners, a research consultant and a faculty development specialist to examine applications of recent research on the human brain and its development in order to improve student mastery of disciplinary content during the early years of college.
Collegium faculty will meet at least once in both the fall and spring semesters of 2008-09 and will engage in an intensive two-week workshop in the early summer of 2009 to develop and incorporate metacognitive learning strategies into their core courses. Identifying core principles of their discipline, together with discipline-related thinking processes within the course they are adapting, they will modify their courses to enhance students’ ability to acquire content and conceptual framework, alongside the process skills that encourage cognitive synthesis and integration. The adapted courses will be taught in Fall 2009 and Spring 2010. The results will be disseminated to all SEPCHE faculty and published electronically or in print form or both.
Funded by the Teagle Foundation, this project will continue for approximately 30 months. Interested faculty will receive a stipend of $3,000 as they work together to develop, implement and assess how “learning to learn” strategies affect student success in their core courses ($1,500 in 2008-09, $1,000 in 2009-10, and $500 in 2010-11).
Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dr. Christian Jernstedt of Dartmouth College and Medical School, and Faculty Development Specialist Dr. Carol Weiss of Villanova University will serve as project consultants. Dr. Beverly Bryde of Cabrini College and Dr. Maria Cuddy-Casey of Immaculata University will serve as Project Conveners.
Process
Faculty interested in participating in the Collegium should complete the online application.
Representation of each SEPCHE institution and a broad a range of disciplines will be among the criteria for selection of faculty.
Announcement of the names of faculty members participating in the Collegium
will be made by the end of September.
