2000 Teaching and Learning Workshops

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14th Annual Teaching and Learning Workshops

Active Learning in the World

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Active Learning in the World

The 14th annual CIC Teaching and Learning Workshops will promote experiential learning in community settings as a major pedagogical practice. Mission driven programs linked to experiential learning with community organizations have potential to add depth to learning and build capacity for civic action. Liberal Arts Colleges are well placed to provide leadership in higher education to promote this focus.

During the workshops subsidized by CIC, campus teams with community partners will create or reshape designs for reciprocal teaching and learning in the community. Teaching strategies, institutional policies, staffing patterns, and effective ways of working with, as well as learning from, the community, will be the major topics.

The Workshops are part of a larger CIC initiative, Engaging Communities and Campuses, which includes sharing effective practices and a national competitive grants competition in the fall of 2000. Workshop participants will be working with the issues which will be pursued in the grants competition which has $1 million in awards.

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Issues

The Workshops will address the following issues:

Rationale for Active Learning in the World Beyond the Campus

• Learning how to increase student learning in community settings, enhance career opportunities for students,
  revitalize faculty work, strengthen the institutional bond to the regional community, and address problems identified by the community

• Helping students move from passive to active learning

• Engaging students by involving them in a systemic, community oriented curriculum

• Working to foster a culture of active learning in the community and on the campus

Faculty strategies to foster experiential learning

• Experiential learning theory and practice

• Reflection theory and practices

• Cross-cultural awareness

• Building trust relationships and partnerships with community groups

• Assisting community leaders to understand experiential learning

• Assessing learning in community contexts

Institutional policies, structures, culture, and procedures

• Faculty development

• Faculty evaluation processes appropriate for new pedagogies

• Staffing patterns or centers needed to support faculty working with the community

• Student time commitments

• Approaches to integrating community based learning into the curriculum and co-curriculum

Collaboration in Community Settings

• Trust and relationship building between higher education institutions and communities

• Exploring power relationships and their impact on teaching, research, and service roles within the community

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Who Should Attend

Faculty, service-learning coordinators, internship coordinators, faculty development directors, chief academic officers, other academic administrators, student leaders, and community representatives.

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Expectation of participants prior to workshop

Workshop participants are asked to develop and bring a diagram depicting where the institution and community groups are now with respect to learning activities connected with communities. In each diagram, show the community and campus efforts that are linked for mutual action and learning, e.g. internships, collaborations, service-learning courses, practicums, community based research, other outreach activities, career development, work-study, fall/spring breaks. Participants are also asked to be familiar with the reading lists which will be shared by CIC staff on the web site, www.cic.edu under conferences, Teaching and Learning Workshops.

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Workshop Costs

CIC-member colleges:
$195 for the first person
$160 for each additional person

Nonmember colleges:
$295 for the first person
$260 for each additional person

All institutions which register for the May/June workshops by March 1, 2000 will be guaranteed a place. Registration fees include workshop sessions, materials, and two continental breakfasts.

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Related Links

Here's a link to the UCLA Service-Learning Clearinghouse Project, which is housed in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies Department, within the Higher Education Research Institute. The site contains information and resources focusing on faculty issues, K-16 partnerships, assessment and evaluation, training and technical assistance, and service-learning research. http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/slc/

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