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Professional & Faculty Learning Communities
The CTL's Professional Learning Communities (PLC) Program will include ongoing professional development opportunities for faculty and staff within a learning community model.
Each community is comprised of 8-12 multi-disciplinary faculty and staff who actively engage in a semester or year-long, collaborative community focused on improving and/or enhancing teaching and learning through SoTL (scholarship of teaching and learning) (Cox & Richlin, 2004). A significant element of SoTL is the collective exploration of pedagogy and discipline among participants (McKinney, 2006). These PLCs will provide ongoing learning and exploration into opportunities in higher education.
- Engage in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) - inquiry, exploration, application, peer review, reflection, presentation of findings
- Implement an identified change into practice
- Share findings with the campus community
- Participate in PLC pre and post assessment
Cox, M.D. (2003). Proven faculty development tools that foster the scholarship of teaching in faculty learning communities. To Improve the Academy (21), 109-142.
Cox, M.D., & Richlin, L. (2004). Building faculty learning communities. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
McKinney, K. (2006). Attitudinal and structural factors contributing to challenges in the work of the scholarship of teaching and learning. New Directions for Institutional Research, 129 (Summer), 37-50.