NWIC Teaching and Learning Initiative Leadership Team Meeting
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NWIC Teaching and Learning Initiative Leadership Team Meeting May 13, 2010
What is the Teaching and Learning Initiative? Part of the Lilly Foundation’s Woksape Oyate (Wisdom of The People) grant initiative, 2007 – 2012 § Focuses on the development of improved instructional practices that increase the ability of NWIC full-time and part-time faculty to respond to individual student learning needs and to effectively teach a native student population. §
Activities Coordinated by the Teaching and Learning Committee (formed Aug. 2009) § Survey of Teaching and Learning Environment at NWIC § Teaching and Learning Handbook § § Contains resources for teaching faculty, including a toolkit of methodologies Faculty in-service training on instructional strategies – Fall quarter 2009 pre-service § Faculty invited to create toolkit items – 9 completed and 3 more near completion §
Activities continued Creation of three websites – Faculty Home Page, Teaching and Learning Initiative and Learning Commons § Action research in teaching and learning in-service trainings – Dec. 2009 and Jan. 2010 § Faculty action research in teaching and learning projects – 11 in Winter 2010, 3 in Spring 2010 § Articulation of the NWIC Teaching and Learning Philosophy §
Activities continued Teaching and Learning Summer Institute - June 2010 § Teaching and learning resources – Texts and Journals for NWIC Library, Faculty resource room, videos, bibliographies §
Future Plans Completion of the Teaching and Learning Handbook – Introduction, Philosophy, resources, cultural integration – Use for new faculty orientation § Faculty Publication of Scholarship in Teaching and Learning (So. TL) § Publish proceedings of Summer Institute § Disseminate Teaching and Learning Handbook to other Tribal Colleges §
