Involved hundreds of faculty members at dozens of colleges
Evaluated by Stanford Research Institute
Documented in Taking College Teaching Seriously: Pedagogy Matters!
Our purpose is to not just reinforce your comfort with instructional theories and approaches, but also help you build a systematic way to think about your teaching.
Now, let's explore three fundamentals of the Faculty Guild model:
In our learning communities, you’ll be part of a small, online circle of professors teaching similar disciplines – often at other institutions. Together, you'll reflect on your everyday use of adaptive courseware and active learning strategies. A peer facilitator will give you personalized support and help you connect your work to evidence-based instructional practices.
As a result, you’ll have the space to make gains in your teaching in a way that is hard to find without a community to support you.
Each week, through our easy-to-use and mobile-friendly web platform, you can capture the purpose, activities and outcomes for a recent class. Then you’ll read your peers’ reflections and share feedback with each other. Your facilitator will also share short videos or readings about your recent teaching, personalized for you, not generalized advice which may not be relevant.
Through this reflection cycle, you have a moment to think about what you’ve done in the classroom. And how you might make it better going forward. The key to this approach is that it starts with you. The evidence is what you are already doing in class. And the outcome is what you choose to do with what you’ve learned.
The result? You'll have a common language of pedagogy that is relatable to all faculty – from new hires to experienced professors.
There are 20 tags across four themes – designed to create classroom environments that are:
Supportive
Challenging
Varied
Organized
It's fine if you aren't familiar with all 20 practices, we'll explore them together.
Source: Taking College Teaching Seriously: Pedagogy Matters!
Compared to other professional development programs that ask you to watch videos or attend workshops – our research-based approach takes a different view. And yes, it takes time. Between one and two hours a week, typically for one or more academic terms.
While we can’t magically give you more time, we do make it easy to reflect on your work and participate in a community – from the convenience of your computer or mobile device.
Teaching can be isolating and you could use a little community in a way that isn’t threatening or competitive.
Maybe you are already using them. Maybe you don’t know what to call them. Maybe you’ve never heard of them. All good. We’ll do it together.
Rather than being told what to do, you want to explore your own development, on your own time.
You will develop a teaching profile that will show you which instructional practices you turn to naturally and which ones you may need to explore more deeply. There isn’t a right way – just your way.
By signing up, you know you are making a weekly, sustained commitment to your own teaching practice and the development of your peers.
Are you ready to get started? Complete the form below.
The information you provide in this form will be shared with our points of contact at Every Learner Everywhere. From time to time, we may also send you invitations to webinars and other events to learn more about Faculty Guild.
Yes. Because the reflective practice is based on work you are currently doing in the classroom or with adaptive courseware, you need to be teaching while you are participating in the program.
Yes. The Faculty Guild teaching circles for Every Learner Everywhere will be constructed by discipline area. We believe a strong community benefits from having a common starting point.
Every Learner Everywhere will work with partner institutions to confirm all participants and teaching circles. You must be teaching a class during the term, and you will need a computer or mobile device with reliable internet access.
Faculty Guild facilitators are current and former college faculty who have expertise in evidence-based instruction and active and adaptive learning. They have experienced many of the things you face every day. Their purpose is to guide the circle through the reflection process and the exploration of instructional practices.
Your personal information, including your reflections, will be seen within your circle, Faculty Guild staff, and appropriate program managers from Achieving the Dream, the Association of Public Land-grant Universities and Every Learner Everywhere. Partner institutions affiliated with Every Learner Everywhere may receive aggregated, de-identified data. You can also elect to share your information with other colleagues, your institution, or even the public.
No. As part of your orientation, you will be asked to participate in one or two synchronous online meetings to engage with your facilitator and peers in your circle. All other work is online and asynchronous.
