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InitiativeInitiative

Leadership Team Meeting

May 13, 2010

What is the Teaching and What is the Teaching and Learning Initiative?Learning Initiative?

Part of the Lilly Foundation’s Woksape Oyate (Wisdom of The People) grant initiative, 2007 – 2012

Focuses on the development of improved instructional practices that increase the ability of NWIC full-time and part-time faculty to respond to individual student learning needs and to effectively teach a native student population.

ActivitiesActivities Coordinated by the Teaching and Learning Committee (formed

Aug. 2009) Survey of Teaching and Learning Environment at NWIC Teaching and Learning Handbook

Contains resources for teaching faculty, including a toolkit of methodologies

Faculty in-service training on instructional strategies – Fall quarter 2009 pre-service

Faculty invited to create toolkit items – 9 completed and 3 more near completion

Activities continuedActivities continued

Creation of three websites – Faculty Home Page, Teaching and Learning Initiative and Learning Commons

Action research in teaching and learning in-service trainings – Dec. 2009 and Jan. 2010

Faculty action research in teaching and learning projects – 11 in Winter 2010, 3 in Spring 2010

Articulation of the NWIC Teaching and Learning Philosophy

Activities continuedActivities continued

Teaching and Learning Summer Institute - June 2010

Teaching and learning resources – Texts and Journals for NWIC Library, Faculty resource room, videos, bibliographies

Future PlansFuture Plans

Completion of the Teaching and Learning Handbook – Introduction, Philosophy, resources, cultural integration – Use for new faculty orientation

Faculty Publication of Scholarship in Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

Publish proceedings of Summer Institute Disseminate Teaching and Learning Handbook to other

Tribal Colleges