Strengthening the Culture of Faculty Learning on Campus

1. Strengthening the Culture of Faculty Learning on Campus Cathy Manduca, Director Science Education Resource Center (SERC), Carleton College Aspen Forum on the Fuiture of Higher Educaiton, June 13, 2019

2. A Culture of Faculty Learning How might we extend this culture from research to teaching?

3. Faculty Learning for Research

4. Why bother? Learning about teaching and learning leads to better teaching and learning Manduca et al., 2017. Improving undergraduate STEM education: The efficacy of discipline-based professional development. Science Advances

5. What supports this learning?

6. Increasing Teaching Capacity Through Time

7. Making It Easy to Use What You Learn: Content Alignment Viskupic, K., Ryker, K., Teasdale, R., Manduca, C., Iverson, E., Farthing, R., Bruckner, M., McFadden, R., 2019. Classroom Observations Indicate the Positive Impacts of Discipline-Based Professional Development, ournal for STEM Education Research

8. Making It Easy to Use What You Learn: Reducing Barriers, Increasing Motivation • Effiiciency and Time • Fear and Reward • Spaces, Schedules and Supplies • Comfort and Identity Schadel et al, 2017, Faculty drivers and barriers: laying the groundwork for undergraduate STEM education reform in academic departments , International Journal of STEM Education Henderson, C., Beach, A., & Finkelstein, N. (2011). Facilitating change in undergraduate STEM instructional practices: an analytic review of the literature. Journal of Research in Science Teaching

9. Faculty Learning for Teaching

10. How to strengthen culture of faculty learning and teaching? • Provide for rich learning experiences • Support integration of learning across experiences • Create opportunities for learning to spread across campus • Consider the interplay with national programs in the disciplines Condon, W., Iverson, E.R., Manduca, C.A., Rutz, C., and Willet, G., 2016. Faculty development and student learning: Assessing the connections, Indiana University Press

11. How to strengthen culture of faculty learning and teaching? Kastens & Manduca, 2017. Leveraging the Power of a Community of Practice to Improve Teaching and Learning about the Earth, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning

12. How to strengthen culture of faculty learning and teaching? • Interaction effects • On ramps Cutting Edge and BSGD website reference

13. How to strengthen culture of faculty learning and teaching? Association of American Universities. (2017). Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative.

14. Strengthening the Culture of Faculty Learning about Teaching on Campus • What can one do on campus? • How can campus initiatives interplay with national initiatives within disciplines? • What is the role of programs and departments?

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16. Visable Aspects of a Productive Culture • Concern about developing teaching skills • Concern about how students learn and how to help them learn better • Concern about what students learn • Sense of community based upon a shared mission of quality teaching • Statusbased in part on being a good teacher • Interest in, and respect for, the scholarship of teaching and learning • Patiencewithexperimentationandchange • Pathwaysfrom experimentation, to synthesis and discussion, to action

17. Features of a Productive Culture • Faculty display a willingness to experiment with teaching, an openness to change • The institution provides a menu of opportunities for changes in teaching practices • The support structure for improving teaching goes beyond formal faculty development to embrace routine actions and venues • Working on teaching is clearly anacceptable thing to do on a campus • The institution can use a variety of measures to promote a conversation about teaching • Faculty exchange of ideas is an important part of the context, so that individuals making changes realize that they are not alone and changes spread among colleagues

18. How do faculty learn about teaching?