This program, known at MSU as the FTCP, is now in its ninth year. Faculty who register are placed in small communities of between 6-10 from various disciplines based entirely on when they are available to attend. Sessions are held, on average, once a month. Each session runs for about an hour. Topics include course design and redesign, active learning strategies for the classroom, rubric creation, and teaching with technology. Each participant also is assigned a peer faculty consultant who observes one course and talks to students in the course, ultimately sharing information gained in the process (this is totally confidential). Each participant also completes some kind of project in an attempt to further aid student learning.
CETL's Course Design Certificate Program offers instructors the opportunity to discuss methods for organizing courses. It looks at the various connections between learning goals and outcomes, and offers ideas on such topics as active learning, rubric creation, and classroom assessment techniques.
Students Consulting On Teaching (SCOT) is a newly developed program in which student consultants respond to professors' invitations to gather data on classroom activities and offer constructive feedback. The goal is to provide faculty members with information that will help them have a better sense of what is happening in their classrooms. The program is available to all instructors at the university.
This Faculty Learning Community will give faculty a chance to dialogue with MSU students from the SCOT (Students Consulting on Teaching) program. The discussion will focus on real issues in teaching and faculty will also have the chance to request a SCOT consultant for their own classes. Topics of discussion will include:
