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On one of the note cards at your table, please tell us... Your name

On one of the note cards at your table, please tell us... Your name Your institution and role (professor, administrator, etc.) Your discipline What are your expectations for this workshop? What are you doing in your university/organization to promote civic education ?.

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On one of the note cards at your table, please tell us... Your name

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  1. On one of the note cards at your table, please tell us... • Your name • Your institution and role (professor, administrator, etc.) • Your discipline • What are your expectations for this workshop? • What are you doing in your university/organization to promote civic education?

  2. Creating faculty networks - one innovative course at a time Gregg Kaufman and Julia Metzker

  3. Goal To advance your efforts in developing courses and professional development programs that cultivate engaged citizenship in students and faculty. • Plan • Brief description of the Innovative Course-building Group • Philosophy & Timeline • Two “case-studies” • Abbreviated think-pair-share

  4. Faculty Teaching Network Supporting Innovative course development Community Science Innovative Course Building Group Research Student Faculty Connecting to K-12 Interdisciplinary STEM mini-grants Service Learning Engaging Courses SENCER / Social Issues Scientifically Literate Citizens Assessment Institutions Programs Core/General Ed. Students Recognition

  5. Civic Engagement in the Curriculum Mathematical Modeling through Financial Calculations Educational Strategies for Non-Traditional Instructional Settings Animal, Vegetable Human: The Science and Sociology of YOUR food Critical Thinking: Climate and Chemistry Critical Thinking: Public Deliberation Inquiry and Reflection in Science Social Justice:Indigenous and African movements in Latin America Mathematics on the Fringe Environmental Health …and many innovative activities and units in “traditional” courses

  6. SENCER robustly connects science and civic engagement by teaching “through” complex, contested, capacious, current, and unresolved public issues “to” basic science. • SENCER helps reveal the limits of science by identifying the elements of public issues where science doesn’t help us decide what to do. • SENCER shows the power of science by identifying the dimensions of a public issue that can be better understood with certain mathematical and scientific ways of knowing. • SENCER, by focusing on contested issues, encourages student engagement with “multidisciplinary trouble” and with civic questions that require attention now. • SENCER includes faculty (tenure AND non-tenure track) and administrators from …. • Liberal arts institutions • Community Colleges • Research Universities • High Schools

  7. SENCER at GCSU – a timeline (not to scale) You are here GCSU’s 1st faculty development workshop (funded by SENCER post institute award) 2nd faculty development workshop 3rd workshop & focus on dissemination First SSI attended 2003 2004 2005 2008 2009 2011 2010 Planning for next cohort of ICBGers Julia Metzker nominated and appointed a SENCER Fellow The Science Education Center hosts David Burns to present SENCER ideals Cohort became the Innovative Course Building Group (ICBG) Every year new participants join the leadership team AND become mentors to the next cohort of ICBGers. = Attended SSI

  8. Who we are … • The Innovative Course-Building Group (IC-BG) is a grass-roots social network for learningthat supports teaching faculty and staff across disciplines. We use civic issues as a catalyst for designing engaging courses that will result in important student learning. • Our guiding principles … • Time is valuable: gatherings are deliberately designed to be productive, meaningful, and enjoyable uses of this limited resource. • Good ideas recycled, refined, and adapted become great ideas. • Teaching and learning rarely happen in isolation: collaboration supports innovation. • Our participants… • Will design a course (and activities) ready to teach! http://icbg.wordpress.com

  9. Our Innovative Course Building Group Workshop Logistics Start of fall semester: Recruit new faculty, review applications, setup schedule. 3 meetings in the fall semester and 3 meetings in the spring. *Homework typically posted to blog where other members can comment. ICbG blog: http://icbg.wordpress.com/

  10. Development of a typical IC-bGer(not to scale) Building & sustaining a professional network Noticed a lack of student engagement Introduced a new activity (or several) Innovative course redesign Tried an in-class assessment Thinking about changing her course Wrote new course goals Mapped activities and assessments to course goals Facilitating workshops and mentoring Where are you?

  11. Portrait of an IC-bGer Gregg Kaufman – Government Instructor • Gregg had been teaching part-time when he joined the ICbG last year. Currently, he is teaching ¾ time and coordinates the ADP program. • As an instructor (non-tenure track) many development activities were unavailable to him. • Through ICbG workshops, Gregg designed Public Deliberation, a core curriculum course for first-year students that addresses critical thinking. His course design began with specific course learning outcomes and ended with a course-map that links the assessment and activities to course goals. • As a new member of the ICbG mentor group, Gregg will participate in future workshop development, mentoring and SOTL activities.

  12. Portrait of an IC-bGer Julia Metzker – Chemistry Professor • After her first year at Georgia College, Julia noticed students in her chemistry course were not engaged with or excited about the course content. She began converting laboratory courses from “canned-labs” to inquiry projects with social relevanceand “retooled” a science course for non-science majors. • After attending a SENCER summer institute, she co-wrote a small grant to create a professional development community for university teachers (IcBG). This community went on to design a series of course-design workshops. • Julia has “re-designed” several courses around active learning, including a successful course that investigates the causes and consequences of our high-mileage food system. • She continues to be an active member of the Innovative Course-building Group and enjoys belonging to a “social network for learning”.

  13. KEY Deliberation Cycle Learning Taxonomy Critical Thinking Elements Purpose Question at issue Point of View Implications & Consequences Information Assumptions Interpretations & Inferences PUBLIC WORK Concepts

  14. Activity: Your goalsThink-Pair Share • Think • Identify where you are on the timeline and write down a goal you intend to accomplish. • Quickly map the tasks and resources needed to accomplish your goal. • Pair • Find someone from another school that you do not know • Share • Your goal and map • Refine your partner’s plan • Share with everyone

  15. On the other side of your notecard, please tell us... • Were your expectations met? Why or why not? • Write one action item you intend to accomplish when you return to your own campus. Connect with us blog: icbg.wordpress.com email: julia.metzker@gcsu.edu, gregg.kaufman@gcsu.edu

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