Integrative Learning Workshop

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Thursday, April 21st and Friday, April 22nd from 9 am-3 pm

Center for Meeting and Learning Rm. 102, Lane Campus

Follow-Up Curriculum Development Application

Readings

Materials and Handouts

Faculty Artifacts, Ideas, Posters, Integrative Assignments

Faculty Integrative Assignment Presentations

Workshop Facilitators:

Gillies Malnarich, Ph.D. and Emily Lardner, Ph.D.

Co-directors of

The Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Higher Education

Click here to view a relevant presentation by Gillies Malnarich

Workshop Themes:

Meeting Our Students Where They Are:
Course Design, Student Learning and Success

• Teaching for understanding--the role of "real world" context in building students' learning confidence
• Leveraging the key concepts of a discipline to foster development of college readiness and college success skills
• Building student agency and autonomy

Using Research on the Three Learning Principles from How People Learn to Improve Student Learning

• Engaging Resilient Preconceptions
• Organizing Knowledge Around Core Concepts
• Supporting Metacognition
• Click here to view a pdf of How Students Learn

Essential Learning Across the Disciplines:
Developing Students’ Metacognitive Abilities and Intellectual Identity

• Helping students to understand the interrelatedness of the essential learning outcomes of their degree and helping them to apply this learning to new settings
• Beginning with students’ current understandings and helping students to move beyond them
• Helping students understand academic discourse as distinct from their own communities’ discourses
• Helping students learn the “Big Ideas” of a discipline and how their daily work connects to it
  • helping students to transition from informal to formal ideas
  • pedagogical implications of replacing superficial “coverage” with key concepts in a discipline
• Helping students to apply knowledge and use it in new contexts
• Assessment: evidence of student learning and success: “the framework for accountability should be students’ demonstrated ability to apply their learning to complex problems” (C. Schneider, 2007).

Goals for this Workshop:

• A hands-on professional development opportunity for faculty to apply research on student learning and college readiness to their course and assignment design.
  
• An opportunity for discipline-based teams to address curricular trouble spots with assignments that help students overcome obstacles to learning, including uneven preparedness.
  
• An opportunity to learn how to help students connect their learning across disciplines and in their lives.  This connection is at the core of integrative learning.
  
• A chance for faculty to develop pedagogical expertise at the instructional design phase on teaching and learning activities geared toward achieving student learning outcomes.
  
• Stipend Schedule for Part-Time Faculty Attending