1. Teaching and Learning Center
College Senate Update
Spring 2018

2. Background Vision Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Faculty Development
Vision
Facilitate student learning
Feed passion for inquiry (faculty and students)

3. Two Goals (2017-2018) Build infrastructure
Create opportunities for cohorts

4. Coordinate and communicate with existing programs:
Collective
Individual initiatives
Fostering Innovation in Teaching with Technology (FITT)
SUNY Open Educational Resources (OER)
RITE’s Instructional Design Team
Research Foundation and pre-award programs

5. Coordinate and communicate with new strategic partners:
Academic Commons (Tutoring and Advising)
Student Affairs
SUNY Performance Improvement Fund (PIF) Initiatives
Applied learning
Supplemental instruction
Peer mentoring
Summer bridge

6. Teaching and Learning Center Website
Make our lives easier by
Compiling relevant information
Intentionally anticipating need
Connecting the dots
Empowering faculty with tools to facilitate student learning

7. Cohorts and conversations around strategic initiatives
High-Impact Practices ( )
Learning Communities ( )
Applied Learning ( )

8. High-Impact Practices (HIPs) First-Year Seminars Learning Communities
Collaborative Projects
Undergraduate research
Service Learning
Study Abroad
Internships
Common Intellectual experiences
Capstone seminars
(Kuh 2008; Kilgo, Sheets & Pascarella 2015).
discuss

9. Becoming HIP: Assignments taking time over multiple weeks
Peer-to-peer interactions
Frequent faculty feedback
Structured student reflections
Integrative learning

10. Time for reflection

11. Faculty taught students how to reflect

12. New cohorts and conversations:
Teaching “large-ish” classes
“Coalition of the willing” around advising
Possible cohorts:
General Education?
Lab classes?
Studio?
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13. What can the Teaching and Learning Center do for YOU (your department, our students, our community)? John Draeger