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- Academic Leadership Academy
- Cool Tools for Teaching
- Everyone Counts - FPLC
- Faculty Learning Communities
- New Faculty Seminar
- Teaching Millennial Students
- Technology Enhanced Teaching
- WMU Leadership Colloquium
Programs
All programs and sessions, unless otherwise noted in their descriptions, will take place in Room 2033 of the University Computing Center.
Teaching and Learning for Millennials
Teaching and Learning for Millennials is a seminar series in which participants will explore students'
learning processes and ways to optimize learning in the college
classroom.
Sessions will discuss ways to incorporate many different teaching and learning styles through the use of virtual and face-to-face approaches.
The Academy is a year-long learning community in which the participants and facilitators meet weekly to engage with invited speakers, work through literature on leadership together, discuss specific situations in which leadership skills are used, and develop, implement, and troubleshoot leadership projects.
The Academy will meet on Thursdays, Fall & Spring Semester, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. in the Fetzer Center.
Workshops will introduce faculty to a variety of high-tech, low-tech, and no-tech tools that can be used to enhance or complement current teaching methods.
In 2012, Cool tools will be featured the first week in January, and during the summer in May and June, and August 20 - 24.
The Office of Faculty Development and the Office of Diversity & Inclusion joined forces to offer Everyone Counts. This program began in February 2010. These learning communities serve to equip faculty, graduate student instructors, and staff with the skills needed to implement course objectives and campus programming centered on diversity.
This program will be offered again in Fall 2011.
Faculty Learning Communities are small groups of faculty (<10) who have expressed interest in learning more about a particular aspect of their instructional practices. Faculty spend a year or so meeting regularly to engage in discussion and problem solving with one another, asking critical questions and devising new approaches based on their inquiry.
During the 2011-2012 academic year the Office of Faculty Development will host the following Faculty Learning Communities:
- Mid-Career and Senior Faculty
- Service Learning
- Alternatives to Lecture in Large Classes
The New Faculty Seminar is an academic year-long endeavor that seeks to orient new faculty to Western Michigan University. New faculty engage with speakers and more seasoned faculty on a wide variety of topics.
Friday, Sept 24 - April 19, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Sessions will take place in the Stewart Clock Tower located on the 3rd Floor of the University Computing Center.