moving the needle: a faculty shift toward learner-centered
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Moving the needle: A faculty shift toward learner-centered instruction
Cathy Box, Ph.D.
SACSCOC Conference, 2019
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Learning Goals
• Discuss current practices in faculty development
• Explore desired direction for conceptual and behavioral change in faculty
• Discover professional development approaches that result in enduring conceptual and behavioral change
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Where are you now?
• Discuss what faculty development looks like on your campus
• Socrative.com
• Log in as a student
• Join Box7373
• One member of your group answer Question #1
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Jigsaw
• Find 3 or 4 other people who have the same number as you
• Work with your group to answer the question posed there.
• Card #1 will answer question #1 and so forth
• Follow the QR code on your handout to assigned reading (SKIM my friends, SKIM)
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Respond• Enter the answer to your
question in Socrative• Be as brief as possible
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Learning Academy
• First semester
• How People Learn
• Other relevant literature
• Model learner-centered instruction
• Guiding Principles
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Learning Academy• Second semester
• Guiding principles
• Backwards Design
• Focus on learner-centered frameworks• Constructivism (Active learning)
• Metacognition
• Formative Assessment
• Set teaching and learning goals
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Learning Academy
• Third semester
• Practice-centered inquiry
• Reflection
• Documentation
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
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Narrative Study
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Interviews
• Themes emerged
• Struggle
• Finding balance
• Reflection
• Transition
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Portfolios
• Evidence of change
• Conceptual frameworks - constructivist
• Variety of strategies
• Student metacognition
• Assessment practices
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Group Responses
• Substantial changes to teaching• Assessment
• Teaching based on how students learn
• Active learning
• How thinking changed• Confronted biases and accepted that students learn
differently
• Awareness of how students learn, how I could change my teaching
• Developed a growth mindset
• Sustainability of change• All respondents indicated that their changes are
sustainable
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Application
How can you apply what you’ve learned to your own situation? What factors might facilitate change? What
factors might serve as barriers?