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The Card Deck

COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE: SUPPORTING FACULTY LEARNING AND ENGAGEMENT THROUGH ORGANIC, DECENTRALIZED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT KRISTA HISER & CHARLES SASAKI KAPI’OLANI COMMUNITY COLLEGE. The Card Deck. Choose a facilitator to use the first technique in your card deck.

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The Card Deck

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  1. COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE: SUPPORTING FACULTY LEARNING AND ENGAGEMENT THROUGH ORGANIC, DECENTRALIZED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTKRISTA HISER & CHARLES SASAKIKAPI’OLANI COMMUNITY COLLEGE

  2. The Card Deck Choose a facilitator to use the first technique in your card deck. Please discuss some of the problems with professional development on your campus. You have 5 minutes.

  3. Problems with Professional Development • Limited impact • Lack of follow through on new ideas • Not enough time • Low participation, esp. from seasoned faculty • Expensive • Who chooses topics?

  4. Models of Adult Professional Learning • Based on social science & adult learning theories: • Professional Learning Communities • Communities of Practice • Apprenticeship • Andragogy

  5. Communities of Practice • “Self organized and selected groups of people who share a common sense of purpose and a desire to learn and know what each other knows” (Lave & Wenger, 1991) • Organic, sense of agency, self-motivating

  6. Andragogy • Self concept • Ability to self-direct • Experience as a reservoir of knowledge, readiness to learn as tied to social roles, • Problem- centered orientation to learning • Internal motivation to learn (Knowles,1984)

  7. C4ward Collaborative Circles for Creative Change = C4ward

  8. The Irony • “Professional learning communities are postmodern organizational forms struggling to survive in a modernistic, micromanaged, and politicized educational world” (Giles and Hargreaves, 2006) • How to institutionalize while keeping the organic quality

  9. How is a c4ward not a committee? • Has an organic beginning and ending • Members decide how long the commitment will be • Members determine the goal of the group • Two goals: learning, while achieving a task • C4wards have members, a concierge, and a host

  10. The Host • The host is a campus leader, enthusiast, or expert in the topic of the C4ward. • Provides expertise • Understands campus history & direction • Enthusiastic “driver” & “mover” & “shaker” for the topic

  11. The Concierge • A trained facilitator who uses techniques to neutrally guide the goals of the group: • Scheduling • Summarizing meetings • Reframing issues • Inviting guests • Communication on behalf of the group • Connecting to campus resources • Concierge is committed but unattached • Facilitative leadership experience

  12. Lifecycle of a C4ward • Determine a schedule and timeframe • Discuss technology (meeting online, use of email, Laulima, etc.) • Create a goal • Learn from & encourage each other • Assess and share • Renew or disband

  13. Current C4wards • Hawaiian Pedagogy • Social Networking in the classroom • PBL & S-L • Health & Meditation • Developmental Ed • CCSSE measures • iPad power users • Parents of small children • Tenure & promotion • ePortfolio end users • Social networking • Sustainability Across the Curriculum • Gaming & Play • New Faculty • Lecturers • Academic Writers Groups • New STEM faculty • Gatekeeper courses (Vanguard)

  14. The Vanguard Faculty Initiative • Data on Gatekeepers were released in 2008 and success rates announced as an institutional priority • Funds were available for “gatekeeper” course redesign but some eligible faculty felt singled out and stigmatized. There were only two takers – both were relatively new faculty • Vanguard was an effort to recognize and reward those faculty willing to innovate and take risks

  15. How did it work? • 35 applications were received from those seeking designation as Vanguard Faculty • Proposed interventions needed to be data-informed and directly tied to student success – 18 Vanguard Faculty were selected • Vanguard Faculty were provided release time to redesign their classes • Dean leveraged four funding sources to cover costs • FT and associate faculty are all eligible

  16. Vanguard Faculty Initiative • Faculty could redesign courses as they saw fit • Project focus is internal and focused on faculty behaviors • Interventions included: • Collaborative study • Peer-Assessed homework • Capstone project • International Café • Accelerated Courses • Problem-Based Learning • By design, everyone was doing something different!

  17. Vanguard C4ward • C4ward clusters (time, discipline, method) • C4ward shapes faculty’s release time: supportive, productive, & accountable • All Vanguard faculty participated in a c4ward except one

  18. Culture of Inquiry • “Create an environment in which faculty and staff come together and speak from their hearts about issues of substance: student learning, new roles, and new learning strategies. These conversations of consequence can be part of a general culture of inquiry and quality…” (Mellow, Minding the Dream, p. 132).

  19. http://tinyurl.com/kapiolanic4ward

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