PATRICIA SCHADE, LEARNING COMMUNITY COORDINATOR

ACA—Create An Integrative Learning Assignment in 30 Minutes!November 12, 2010

At the Washington Center, our team, composed of faculty and administrators created a new vision for our learning communities.

GROW INTEGRATED LEARNING AT NECC

Integrated Learning

GROWING & EXPANDING THE WAY WE LEARN

Theme: What is your footprint ? utilize “Space on Earth Learning” Community

as a cornerstone engage students in a campus wide integrative

learning project increase social responsibility, retention and

persistence. provide all students, faculty, and staff with a

common language, purpose, and goal.

OUR VISION

Integrative learning will engage students and faculty in learning and teaching beyond their classrooms and create opportunities for deeper learning.

INTEGRATIVE LEARNING--REACHING THE STUDENTS WHO NEED IT MOST

Using integrated assignments includes students in the larger college community, makes core academic skills more accessible and transparent, and supports students in mastering the core academic skills.

CREATING INTEGRATED ASSIGNMENTS BUILDS COMMUNITY AMONG FACULTY, TOO!

LC RETREAT AUGUST, 2010

SAMPLE HEURISTIC ASSIGNMENTS

NOW IT’S YOUR TURN!

Find a colleague who teaches outside of your discipline

Using sticky notes, write down all of the most important course outcomes for a class you teach.

Compare your learning outcomes. See which ones match.

Now think of a real world problem you’d like your students to solve.

Create an assignment based on your shared learning outcomes.

THE WASHINGTON CENTER FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION

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