Center for Teaching Excellence
Summer Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs)
Equity-Minded Teaching FLC
This one is especially for faculty who teach Gateway Courses. Three cohorts of this group will each meet 3 times over May and June.
Getting Ready for 7-Week Classes FLC
Once again, CTE is offering an FLC for those redesigning a course for the 7-week format. One cohort of this group will meet 3 times over May and June.
Folks who complete either of these FLCs will earn an honorarium and 15 CTE Knights Points toward the 2026 Certificates.
Resources
Check out all the new books that CTE has added to the library collection in the past two years.
Rachel's Recommended Reading
"Geeky Pedagogy: a guide for intellectuals, introverts, and nerds who want to be effective teachers" by Jessamyn Neuhaus
From the publisher: "Geeky Pedagogy is a funny, evidence-based, multidisciplinary, pragmatic, highly readable guide to
the process of learning and relearning how to be an effective college teacher."
From Rachel: This accessable and engaging read won me over almost immediately by acknowledging that what works in one teaching context will not work in every teaching context. Neuhaus offers a great mix of idealism and excitement about teaching with a healthy dose of the realities of complex lives and the differing effects of faculty characteristics on how classes work.
Available as an ebook from the CCRI Library here.
Activate your CCRI ID as a Library Card here.
Knights Points
Don't forget, you can fill out an Implementation Plan if you want to use anything you learn from any professional development in your classes for 4 CTE Knights points. Start the next CTE Knights year strong!
Disaggregated Data Requests
In February 2022, I (Rachel) was able to see my course data for General Psychology (a course I have taught many times here at CCRI) disaggregated by race and ethnicity. The results were surprising and difficult for me to face. Despite that, I’m very glad that I did it, and I’m looking forward to trying some new strategies in my courses to try to close the equity gaps I found.
If you’d like to check out your own course data, request a meeting here to get started.
This is a confidential process and is for your professional development only. Results are not shared with chairs, deans, or the VPAA.
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