Creating Active Pathways
to Student Learning
A
SEPCHE Learning to Learn Project
Exploring New Ways of Advancing
Student Learning in the Arts and Sciences
Project outline
Collegium
- Identify 16 faculty, 2 per SEPCHE institution, from arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences, teaching core courses, committed to metacognitive approach in discipline, implementing and assessing it in core courses.
- Need at least four faculty teaching more than one section of a course, willing to implement changes in one and not in another (to compare outcomes).
- Faculty will articulate the epistemology of discipline and work on developing commonalities across disciplines ((e.g., critical thinking, analytical reasoning, goal setting, self-regulation); will identify at least three core principles of their discipline and three or four discipline-related thinking processes within the course they are adapting and modify their courses so that students can acquire content and conceptual framework, alongside the process skills that encourage cognitive synthesis and integration.
- Convene Collegium dates:
- Friday, November 21, 2008 (noon - 5 p.m.)
- Friday, March 27, 2009, (noon - 5 p.m.)
- Two-week intensive workshop, beginning May 18 2009)
- Dates for additional meetings – one in fall semester 2009, at the beginning and end of spring semester 2010, and one additional meeting - will be determined at a later date.
- Post materials online and continue communication online through CMS portal.
- Some adapted courses to be offered in fall 2009, and some in spring 2010.
- Assessment process will be established at the outset and will be ongoing.
- Leadership team consists of: two conveners, research consultant, faculty development specialist.
- Summer workshop to be facilitated by conveners, researcher and faculty development specialist (the latter two for four half-days each).
- Researcher and faculty development specialist will attend two additional meetings and will be presenters at SEPCHE faculty development conferences.
- SEPCHE-wide faculty development conferences in May 2008 and 2010.
- Share findings with SEPCHE faculty and beyond.
- Produce a Collegium paper or guide or some other product (Web-based or in print) that disseminates in clear and concise ways the knowledge and practices gained from the work (by December 2010), something for a wider audience, a document that would be of interest to colleagues at other institutions.
SEPCHE-wide activities
Two faculty development conferences – one to launch the project, one to share the findings.
Collegium Conveners will coordinate the efforts of the Collegium, calling the meetings, developing the plan for the two-week workshop, identifying resources, leading the process of course adaptation, assessment, sharing ideas, and organizing the dissemination of results and developing the product that will be disseminated.
Project Director: Dr. Gerry O’Sullivan, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Neumann College.
Collegium Conveners: Dr. Beverly Bryde, Cabrini College; Dr. Maria Cuddy-Casey, Immaculata University
Project Coordinator: Brighid
Blake
