Future Faculty Learning Community
This learning community serves graduate students who are interested in exploring issues related to college teaching, ranging from bread-and-butter pedagogical techniques to strategies for making teaching more equitable, diverse, and inclusive to classroom management and course organization tips and tricks. This circle is appropriate for any graduate student, whether currently teaching as an instructor of record, serving as a teaching assistant, or considering college teaching as a career path. Discussions are framed around the content of a scholarly text concerning teaching in higher education, but no pre-reading is expected or required.
Spring 2025
In Spring 2025, we will be basing our discussions on Creating Self-Regulated Learners: Strategies to Strengthen Students' Self-Awareness and Learning Skills by Linda B. Nilson. This text discusses how we can teach in ways that promote self-actualization and agency in our students, helping them to become life-long learners. Our discussions will connect this text to participants' journeys as instructors and to ISU's signature pedagogy, the Framework for Inclusive Teaching Excellence. This learning community is open to all graduate students, with meetings scheduled on alternating weeks in the Spring semester. This is a hybrid offering, and participants will be able to meet in person at the Center for Integrated Professional Development (WIH 325) or participate via Teams meeting. No registration is required, but to see copies of the handouts and to join the Teams meeting, you should join the Future Faculty Teams site.
Synchronous Meetings:
All meetings are from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. on their respective days.
Wednesday, January 29
Wednesday, February 12
Wednesday, February 26
Wednesday, March 19
Wednesday, April 2
Wednesday, April 16
Wednesday, April 30
Location:
Williams 326 with the option to attend via Teams
Facilitators:
David Giovagnoli, Center for Integrated Professional Development
Hye Hyon Kim, Center for Integrated Professional Development GA
Adam Pittman, Center for Integrated Professional Development GA
To join this group contact David Giovagnoli.
If you have any questions contact the Center at ProDev@ilstu.edu
To participate virtually, please join the Teams site.
Intended Audience: This learning community is open to all graduate students. No Registration is Required
Workshops and other Learning Communities
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Professional Development Workshops
Our mission is to support course instructors in their pursuit of excellence and innovation in teaching and the effective use of technology. See our current professional development offerings.
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Early Career Learning Community
Join your peers in this open and welcoming environment designed to reduce your stress and increase your success! Explore topics which inform your teaching, scholarship, and career advancement.
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Learning Communities
Learning communities are professional development opportunities where a group of instructors meets regularly to discuss pedagogical strategies and challenges to improve their teaching. We offer the following learning communities this semester.
If you need a special accommodation to fully participate in a Center event or service, please contact the Center at ProDev@ilstu.edu.