Faculty Handbook
Administrative Coordinators: When you are staffing a learning communities course with faculty new to learning communities, please contact Anne McGrail so that she can answer questions and direct the faculty member to resources.
Who can teach in learning communities?
Anyone who is certified and assigned to teach a course is eligible to teach in in a learning community structure. If you are an instructor who has been assigned a First Year Experience learning community class, then you will be offered curriculum development funding that supports integrating your own discipline course with the College Success or Effective Learning curriculum. (If you are assigned the CG100 or EL115 class, then your curriculum development award can be used to integrate the discipline-specific issues and learning goals of the course you are linking with to your own syllabus. This work is currently sponsored by the Title III Grant and will continue through Learning Communities as budgets allow.)
What are the benefits of teaching in a learning community?
The most significant benefits to teaching in a learning community is the enhanced engagement and satisfaction that your students will experience while in your classroom. Lane has conducted student learning and satisfaction surveys on all of our learning community students, and we have found a distinct positive impact on these measures. You can review our data by clicking here.
Another benefit of teaching in the learning community is that you will be awarded curriculum development support (up to 30 hours for first-year experience learning communities, and more for completely new learning communities).
First Year Experience Learning Communities
Overview of First Year Experience Learning Communities
First Year Experience Learning Community Development and Design: Resources
Planning a Learning Community: Checklist
Student Success Stragegies and Integrative Learning
Curricular Infusion: Embed Success Strategies into Your Courses
Learn More About Integrative Assignments for all Your Classes Here
On Course Across the Curriculum: Skip Downing's Resource Page
Student Success Strategies from On Course by Skip Downing
On Course Wiki from the National On Course Workshop
April 2010 On Course Workshop Handouts for On Course Structures in the Classroom
Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education: Great Resources
Learn about the Learning Communities Advantage Here
Learn about our Current Learning Communities Offerings Here
Here are Some Examples of Learning Communities Structures
Examples of Other Learning Communities Models
From Brainstorming to Publicity: Planning a Successful New Learning Community
What support is available for teaching in a learning community?
Curriculum Development Support
New First Year Experience Faculty Support
What is a First Year Experience Learning Community?
Writing Classes and Writing Across the Curriculum
Sample learning communities syllabi
Faculty Development Resources for High Impact Practices