NWIC Teaching and Learning Initiative

1. NWICTeaching and Learning Initiative Leadership Team Meeting May 13, 2010

2. What is the Teaching and Learning Initiative? • Part of the Lilly Foundation’s Woksape Oyate (Wisdom of The People) grant initiative, 2007 – 2012 • Focuses on the development of improved instructional practices that increase the ability of NWIC full-time and part-time faculty to respond to individual student learning needs and to effectively teach a native student population.

3. Activities • Coordinated by the Teaching and Learning Committee (formed Aug. 2009) • Survey of Teaching and Learning Environment at NWIC • Teaching and Learning Handbook • Contains resources for teaching faculty, including a toolkit of methodologies • Faculty in-service training on instructional strategies – Fall quarter 2009 pre-service • Faculty invited to create toolkit items – 9 completed and 3 more near completion

4. Activities continued • Creation of three websites – Faculty Home Page, Teaching and Learning Initiative and Learning Commons • Action research in teaching and learning in-service trainings – Dec. 2009 and Jan. 2010 • Faculty action research in teaching and learning projects – 11 in Winter 2010, 3 in Spring 2010 • Articulation of the NWIC Teaching and Learning Philosophy

5. Activities continued • Teaching and Learning Summer Institute - June 2010 • Teaching and learning resources – Texts and Journals for NWIC Library, Faculty resource room, videos, bibliographies

6. Future Plans • Completion of the Teaching and Learning Handbook – Introduction, Philosophy, resources, cultural integration – Use for new faculty orientation • Faculty Publication of Scholarship in Teaching and Learning (SoTL) • Publish proceedings of Summer Institute • Disseminate Teaching and Learning Handbook to other Tribal Colleges