Faculty Learning Communities

Communities of Practice that Support, Inspire, Engage, and Transform Higher Education Classrooms

Kristin N. Rainville, Cynthia G. Desrochers, David G. Title, Kristin N. Rainville, Cynthia G. Desrochers, David G. Title

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9798887304441
  9798887304458
• eBook ISBN:
  9798887304465
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Administration

This edited book on Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) provides and explores powerful examples of FLCs as a impactful form of professional learning for faculty in higher education. The chapters describe faculty learning community initiatives across different fields of study and within dynamic and flexible teaching and learning models. Contributing authors provide a framework for faculty learning communities, show the impact of faculty learning communities on teaching practices or student learning, and describe how these communities of practice can lead to institutional change. The book's foreword, by Milton D. Cox, investigates the changes in the FLC world over the past decade: the influence of Communities of Practices (CoP), recent recommendations about virtual FLCs and CoPs, and the positive affirmation for FLCs that implementation science has provided.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Faculty Learning Communities
• Series
• Faculty Learning Communities: Communities of Practice That Support, Inspire, Engage, and Transform Higher Education Classrooms
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword: The Transformation of Faculty Learning Communities Over the Last 10 Years and a Look Ahead
• 1. Designing for Student Success: Using the Faculty Learning Community Model to Prepare Faculty for Deeper Engagement in Student Success
• 2. Integrating Adaptive Practices in an FLC: Centering Trauma-Informed Principles Across a Learning Community Program
• 3. Factors Influencing the Effectiveness of Teaching-Focused Faculty Learning Communities
• 4. A Collaborative Teaching Journey by Graduate Faculty: Building a Principal Preparation Program Through a Team Approach
• 5. Living Large: Our Journey as a Multidisciplinary Faculty Learning Community Focused on Student Engagement in Large Classes
• 6. Collaborative Data Inquiry for Program Improvement: Shifting From External to Internal Motivations and Processes
• 7. Leveraging Professional Learning Communities for Institutional Change
• 8. Covalent Bonds and Communities of Practice: The Impact of STEM Faculty Communities of Practice
• 9. A National Network of Regional Communities of Practice: The COMmunities for Mathematics Inquiry in Teaching (COMMIT) Network
• 10. Improving Student Learning Through Research: Creating an Interdisciplinary SoTL Faculty Learning Community
• 11. Faculty Instructional Teams: An Innovative Approach to Better Preparing Elementary Teacher Candidates
• 12. The Appalachian Curriculum and Instruction Mathematics Education Group as a Community of Practice and Faculty Learning Community
• 13. A Teacher Education Faculty Learning Community as a Lever to Support Program Improvement Through Practice-Based Experiences
• 14. Peer-to-Peer Collaborative Professional Learning Framework for Transferring Stem Teaching Practices
• 15. Empowering a Coalition of the Willing: How Instructor-Driven FLCs Are Promoting a Culture Change Toward Evidence-Based Teaching
• 16. Best Practices for Expanding an Undergraduate Learning Assistant Program: Observations From a Learning Community of Instructors
• 17. A Faculty Learning Community Promotes Teaching Self-Efficacy and Use of Student-Centered Teaching Approaches in the Biological Sciences
• 18. Faculty Development Through Collaboratively Coordinated Teaching: A Case Study in Supporting and Transforming Teaching and Learning
• 19. Teachers Observing Peers: The Informal Sharing of Great Teaching
• 20. The Nexus Between Faculty Learning Communities and Peer Coaching: Potentially Powerful Implementation Partners
• ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS