Intercultural Learning Community

Applications Closed for Spring 2020

The Intercultural Learning Community (ILC) is a pilot faculty learning cohort designed to provide support and resources for developing faculty as reflective teachers and effective facilitators of intercultural interactions. Participants will reflect and gain insight on the experiences of international students and multilingual, non-native English speakers, and in response, will explore and experiment with new pedagogical strategies that support multilingual students’ success and promote intercultural interactions among students.

Application

• Online application due by Jan. 16, 2020
• Full-time or part-time faculty may apply
• Applicants/Awardees of Teaching Enhancement Micro-grant may apply
• Participants will be selected by the Director of CILC and ILC co-facilitators and will be notified by Jan. 20, 2020

Spring 2020 Facilitators

• Dr. Rachael Brown, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education
• Dr. Grace Lee-Amuzie, Coordinator of Academic Integration of Multilingual Student Success

Requirements

• Weekly Meetings – There will be 6 regular meetings, held bi-weekly from Jan 27 – April 13 from 2-4pm
• Collective Reflection Journal – The collective reflection journal on Canvas will be used as a tool to promote continuous dialogue and reflection on teaching practices and assigned readings.
• Co-facilitating a Group Discussion – You will be asked to co-facilitate a group discussion for one meeting on a suggested topic or on the topic you and your partner decide to focus on.
• Pedagogy Lab – ILC activities and resources will introduce a variety of pedagogical approaches and strategies and hopefully motivate you to try something new or modify what you’ve been doing. The goal of ILC is not to overhaul a course—rather, it will encourage faculty to make practical and incremental changes that can have a meaningful impact on student learning.
• Pedagogy Lab Report – In a 750-word report, you will describe a new idea or material you experimented with or changes you made and report the outcomes of your teaching experiment.
• Peer Classroom Observation – You will be paired up with a partner. Partners will visit each other’s classroom at least once.
• ILC Retreat – On Feb 21, Friday from 9 am to 2 pm, we will meet at an off-campus site for ILC planning and team-building activities.
• Follow-up Evaluations and Consultations – You will be asked to share your ILC experience and feedback via a survey and a focus group interview.