Fall 2020
The SOH FLC returns for the third year!
If you played along previously: Welcome Back.
If you missed last year: Welcome Aboard.
Teaching 2021: A New Virtual World?
The Faculty Learning Community is a fluid concept, defined and directed by the members as our conversations, and inquiries unfold during the school year. Our primary focus is to provide support for each other and ask important questions about what it means to teach in the Humanities. As an FLC originally started by Laura Mitchell, we’re now learning how to navigate the unfamiliar waters of remote/online teaching while keeping our students at the forefront of our pedagogical choices. Our community includes faculty from all facets of the school, including Composition, Humanities Core, and Academic English. This year, we hope to use the text Small Teaching Online by Flower Darby and James M. Lang to guide our transitions to the online format and find strategies that can strengthen our teaching both in the virtual as well as the campus classroom.
For those of you who’ve taken the Active Learning Institute offered by the DTEI, there will be some productive synergies—points of overlap and departure—but this group serves more immediate, intimate goals. What’s happening in your class this quarter (or next)? How might you initiate small shifts to make things easier for you and more enjoyable for the students?
You can read more information in this post.
The FLC will meet Wednesdays from 11:30 – 1:00 pm
April 14
May 12
June 2
Online via Zoom
Questions or comments? Please email the facilitator, Emily Brauer Rogers: ebrauer@uci.edu.