Faculty Learning Communities
Spring 2025 FLCs
A. Community Engaged Pedagogy Faculty Learning Community
Community engaged pedagogies (CEP) integrate community engagement - e.g., site visits, problem based learning, applied research projects, internships, etc. - into courses as key components of student learning.
There are many ways to center community engagement in a course, depending on the discipline, the learning goals, the size of the class, the academic preparation of the students, and the partnership or project type.
This Faculty Learning Community will support participants in considering how they might include CEP in their courses, in any discipline.
Over six highly interactive and collaborative sessions, we will consider best practices, ethical issues, and resources - at COMPACT and beyond - for faculty interested in this high impact approach to teaching and learning. Participants will receive a stipend of $500 upon completion, and will be well prepared to apply for CEP grants for their courses.
Please contact Sara Shostak at sshostak@brandeis.edu with any questions.
Spring 2025 Application Deadline: December 13, 2024
Apply here!
B. Faculty Learning Community for Writing Intensive courses (FLC-WI)
Do you wish that you had a community of writing instructors with whom to share ideas and discuss the challenges of teaching writing? All faculty who teach classes that incorporate writing are invited to apply to participate in a spring 2025 faculty learning community, which will meet ~2 times per month. Up to 5 participants will be selected based on interest, disciplinary diversity, and availability, and will receive a $500 honorarium upon completion of the semester. By bringing together WI instructors from across the curriculum, we can provide mutual support, develop innovative and literature-based pedagogy, and ultimately better serve our students. Instructors of Writing Intensive courses outside the University Writing Program (UWP) will be given priority, but UWP instructors will be considered if space allows.
Apply here by December 13th. Email Elissa Jacobs (UWP) at ekjacobs@brandeis.edu with any questions.
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2023 Faculty Learning Communities
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) would like to invite you to join a group of faculty for regular, biweekly discussions about teaching and learning. In these groups, called Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs), we take on important pedagogical issues of your choosing by discussing readings and sharing our own experiences.
The FLC program is open to anyone who teaches full-time, whether on a contract or tenured/tenure-track. The program involves involves three components:
- 80-minute in-person meetings every two weeks (starting the week of September 11);
- peer teaching observations; and
- short, selected readings from Learning That Matters (2020).
In recognition of how important FLCs are in the University’s mission of pursuing academic excellence, participants will receive a $600 stipend upon completion of the program.
For more information, please email Marty Samuels (msamuels@brandeis.edu).
What are the advantages to joining an FLC?
FLCs can:
- break the isolation in which most teaching usually happens;
- provide new ideas about teaching and learning;
- create a supportive environment in which faculty can investigate, question, explore, and apply new classroom techniques;
- develop a community among faculty members who can inspire and support one another;
- discuss scholarship on teaching and learning; and
- challenge yourself to grow as a teacher and life-long learner.
We hope you will be interested in participating and look forward to hearing from you!
Fall 2023 FLC participants
LATTE page for Fall 2023 FLC
| Participant |
Department / Program |
| Chunzi Chai |
Chinese Language Program, GRALL
|
| Jennifer Cleary |
Theater Arts
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| Katrin Fischer |
University Writing Program
|
| Hollie Harder |
French and Francophone Studies
|
| Pito Salas |
Computer Science |
| Rebecca Sausville |
Classical and Early Mediterranean Studies |
| Mariam Sheibani |
Near Eastern and Judaic Studies |
| Sara Shostak |
Sociology & Health: Science, Society, and Policy (HSSP) |
| Aida Wong |
Fine Arts, East Asian Studies, & Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies |
Spring 2023 FLC participants
LATTE page for Spring 2023 FLC
| Participant |
Department / Program |
| Dar Brooks-Hedstrom |
Near Eastern and Judaic Studies & Classical and Early Mediterranean Studies |
| Brad Garvey |
Music |
| Christine Grienberger |
Biology, Neuroscience Program |
| Ashley Miller |
Economics
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| Julia Sauve |
Legal Studies
|