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Learning Community Models
Recent Trends in Educational Reform Efforts
Learning Communities A variety of approaches that link or cluster classes during a given term, often around an interdisciplinary theme, that enroll a common cohort of students. This represents an intentional restructuring of students’ time, credit and learning experiences to foster more explicit intellectual connections between students, between students and their faculty, and between disciplines.
Usually, teachers teach separate courses to separate sets of students
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Effective Learning Communities
Are Learning Communities Effective?
Learning Communities Address the Needs for:
Learning Communities Invite an Array of Pedagogical Approaches:
Learning Communities are Found in:
Three Basic Types of Learning Community Models
Learning Communities Can Be Structured As:
“F.I.G.’s” Freshman Interest Groups
Examples of F.I.G.’s
“F.L.C.’s” Federated Learning Communities Goals: Community, Integrative Learning, and Faculty Development in a Large Class Environment
Linked or Paired Courses Goal: Curricular coherence and integrating skill and content teaching
Examples of Paired Courses
Learning Clusters: Goal: Coherence, thinking and writing skills in a community setting
Learning Clusters: Goal: Coherence, thinking and writing skills in a community setting
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Business Cluster
Cross Referenced Syllabus Business-Economics-English Cluster
Team-Taught Learning Communities
Team-Taught Course Pairs
Team-Taught Triads of Courses
Coordinated Study Model
Evolution of a Coordinated Studies Program The Adirondacks Program at SUNY - Potsdam This program evlved from a faculty-driven design to a more student-driven one, and from an assumption of connections to an assertion of connections.
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Learning Communities Structured Around Shared Content
Successful Learning Community Implementation
Critical Elements of the Change Process
What change agents/ leaders do we need? (Peter Senge)
Effective Change Strategies
A Learning Cluster Schedule: Work, Labor and Business in American Society
Team-Taught Course Schedule for the Quanta Program
Coordinated Study Model Typical Schedules
Coordinated Study Model Typical Schedules
Enrollment in Team-Taught Models
Enrollment in Team-Taught Models
St Lawrence University: the First Year Program
St. Lawrence University Residential Colleges:
St. Lawrence University First-Year College Mentor Program
Factors Enhancing General Education Outcomes
Factors Negatively Associated with General Education Outcomes
Variation on F.I.G.’s: Interest Groups in the Major
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