2019 - Cooperative Learning
Co-funded by the Office of the Vice President for Instruction and the Center for Teaching and Learning, the focus for the 2019 cohort of the CTL Fellows for Innovative Teaching is the implementation of effective cooperative learning experiences across campus. The program began in August 2019 and will conclude in May 2020. Questions regarding this program should be directed to Ruth Poproski, Associate Director for Teaching and Learning.
Goals
The goals of the 2019 CTL Fellows for Innovative Teaching are to:
- support high-impact cooperative learning experiences across the University, in undergraduate, graduate and professional instruction;
- provide funding ($2,000) to support instructional innovation around cooperative learning;
- provide coaching for course re-design based on evidence-based pedagogy;
- further integrate what research tells us about how people learn in key courses at the University; and
- reinforce an instructional environment that honors and recognizes dedicated teaching scholars and promotes a learning-community spirit on a large campus.
Program Overview
“Cooperative learning is the instructional use of groups so that students work together to maximize their own and each other’s learning by intentionally teaching students skills essential for effective teamwork, including accountability, positive interdependence, group processing, promotive interaction, communication and leadership (Johnson et al., 2008).” [italics ours]
The 2019 CTL Fellows for Innovative Teaching cohort includes the following activities and events:
- Fall 2019: Monthly cohort meetings to redesign a course to incorporate effective cooperative learning experiences and assessments; participation in resource groups to explore relationship among literature on cooperative learning, discipline specific skills and goals, and current teaching practice.
- Spring 2020: Monthly cohort meetings to develop practical tools for cooperative learning implementation and develop a practice of reflective inquiry about their teaching practice and student learning.
- May 2020: Present redesigned courses at campus-wide teaching celebration.
2019 CTL Fellows for Innovative Teaching
Rebecca Atkins, Music Education
Nicholas Basinger, Crop and Soil Science
Jonathan Dees, Plant Biology
Jonathan Haddad, Romance Languages
DeLoris Hesse, Medical Partnership
Kim Landrum, Advertising
Katherine Morrissey Stahl, Social Work
Don Nelson, Anthropology
Eman Saleh, Computer Science
Christine Scartz, Law School
Welch Suggs, Journalism
Caroline Young, English