Empowering and Supporting Faculty in Learner-centered Teaching
Description
This interactive session will facilitate participants’ learning and sharing about current practices related to supporting learner-centered teaching among faculty at their institution. Faculty will be encouraged to reflect on their own teaching and discuss what has (or has not) influenced them to move towards a learner-centered model in their practice. Preliminary themes from a doctoral dissertation will be briefly explored and discussed. The strategies used during this session will embody the five tenets of learner-centered teaching, according to Weimer (2002) and Blumberg’s (2008) definition.
Empowering and Supporting Faculty in Learner-centered Teaching
DSB 106
This interactive session will facilitate participants’ learning and sharing about current practices related to supporting learner-centered teaching among faculty at their institution. Faculty will be encouraged to reflect on their own teaching and discuss what has (or has not) influenced them to move towards a learner-centered model in their practice. Preliminary themes from a doctoral dissertation will be briefly explored and discussed. The strategies used during this session will embody the five tenets of learner-centered teaching, according to Weimer (2002) and Blumberg’s (2008) definition.