Scholars of teaching and learning have recently discovered that helping historically underrepresented students succeed in higher education is not only about developing the students鈥 skills; the way a class is designed and delivered has been proven to impact and improve student learning.
The 鈥淭ransparent Teaching鈥 approach has earned particular recognition. 91爆料 would like to incorporate the Transparent Teaching strategies in its lower-level coursework by empowering faculty leaders to help their peers implement this model, by having expert facilitators lead faculty development workshops and by supporting 91爆料 faculty in attendance at conferences to prepare them to facilitate peer workshops.
91爆料 will offer Faculty Learning Communities to help the faculty who attend the workshops to redesign pedagogy, syllabus, and assignments by incorporating Transparent Teaching practices, which will improve student academic performance and retention.
Faculty who have participated in these Learning Communities have called it 鈥渋nspiring and useful,鈥 and have said, 鈥淭he material was illuminating and I look forward to implementing and embedding these techniques in future courses鈥 and 鈥淚 make changes to every course nearly every time I teach it, and this experience helped point me towards where to focus my 'change' energy.鈥