Faculty Learning Communities
Faculty learning communities (FLCs) are collaborative, cross-disciplinary groups of faculty members who come together to engage in ongoing, reflective discussions and activities focused on enhancing teaching and learning. FLCs provide a supportive environment for faculty to engage in shared inquiry, explore specific issues together, and develop new pedagogical approaches. During the 2024 - 2025 academic year the CLTR will be facilitating an FLC focused on Exploring genAI for Teaching and Learning.
Please review the document linked below to learn more about the work of this faculty learning community and apply to be a participant.
Pedagogical Partnership Program
The CLTR will be continuing its Pedagogical Partnership program during the 2024 - 2025 academic year. This program is informed by similar programs originally developed at BrynMawr College by Allison Cook-Sather, that included student consultants as partners in the classroom. This original work in the SaLT (Students as Learners and Teachers) program, focused on connecting students, faculty and staff in various forms of co-creation and co-learning. Building on this work, the CLTR seeks to create spaces where faculty, students and academic staff can partner to co-create equitable teaching and learning.
During the Fall 2024 semester, a new cohort of student partners will be participating in an orientation course to assist in preparing them for partnership roles with faculty members in the Spring 2025 semester. We will also be engaged in outreach to share information about partnership work, and invite interested faculty to contact the CLTR cltr@colgate.edu with questions or to express interest in participating in this program. Below are links to documents providing more information about the program.
Reading Groups
This Fall 2024 semester, the CLTR will be facilitating a reading group for the book, What Inclusive Instructors Do: Principles and Practices for Excellence in College Teaching. This will be a great opportunity to connect with colleagues, explore questions, and share ideas about inclusive teaching.
Dates and times are listed below, and all sessions will be held in McGregory 101A
- Friday, September 13, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
- Friday, September 20, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
- Friday, September 27, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch will be provided and we kindly ask you to register for the sessions you’d like to attend so we can order an appropriate amount of food.
Teaching Tables
Teaching Tables represent more structured and moderated conversations around specific topics that are brought to the CLTR from faculty, students and staff. If you have a teaching need, wish to explore a new technique, want to hear from a faculty panel on a specific topic, etc. just let us know. You propose the topic and perhaps suggested presenters and we do all the work to set things up. To suggest an idea please email cltr@colgate.edu.
Exploring the Data Science Collaboratory at Colgate
Date: Wednesday, 18 September 2024, Noon - 1:00 p.m.
Location: McGregory 101A (lunch provided)
Facilitators: Will Cipolli and Josh Finnell
Are you interested in integrating statistics in your courses? Looking to provide students with easy to use tools and resources? The Data Science Collaboratory at Colgate University has worked to develop software that addresses barriers to teaching and learning quality statistical practice and accompanying materials for guiding the learning of foundational concepts in statistics. Colleagues in the Collaboratory have created a series of advanced case studies that instructors can use to guide quantitative analyses in courses that use statistics. In this teaching table we will discuss the interactive R Shiny web apps we developed to conduct technically sound statistical analyses that empower instructors and students. These free resources provide exposure to current quantitative research and equip users with the skills to select, apply, and interpret appropriate techniques in real-world contexts, regardless of their prior mathematical or coding experience.
To help us plan for an appropriate amount of food, we kindly ask you to register for the event.
Morning Grind with the CLTR
Please come join CLTR staff and Colgate colleagues for some coffee and conversation about teaching and learning. The Grind sessions are a bit "open mic" in spirit, and don't tend to have topics identified in advance...but the conversation is always interesting. You can come anytime and stay for as long as you'd like.
Spring 2024 Morning Grind dates are:
- February 6, 2024 in McGregory Hall 101A from 8:30 - 9:30 a.m.
- March 27, 2024 in McGregory Hall 101A from 8:30 - 9:30 a.m.
Teaching and Learning Workshops
CLTR staff partner with faculty and facilitate workshops on a range of teaching and learning topics. We also collaborate with colleagues in the Learning and Applied Innovation (LAI) group in ITS to conduct workshops addressing the meaningful use of technology to support instruction. A full list of sessions can be found on the workshop calendar page. Please reach out to the CLTR with any ideas you have for a workshop you'd like to see us offer.