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Meeting Notes 11/11/21
We began by discussing the state of LCs at KCC – some of the challenges we’ve been facing and some of the solutions we have been proposing. We also discussed how LCs might actually mitigate some of the student issues arising from remote classes, although the challenges of remote LCs were also discussed. Some of […]
Meeting Notes 10/28/21
We began by introducing ourselves and briefly talking about our experiences with LCs and what brought us to the FIG. We talked a bit about practices that were considered “high-impact” First Year Seminars and Experiences Common Intellectual Experiences Learning Communities Writing Intensive Courses Collaborative Assignments and Projects Undergraduate Research Diversity/Global Learning Service Learning, Community-Based Learning […]
Meeting Notes 10/14/21
Since the participants were new to LCs, we considered an overview of learning communities as a pedagogical approach and discussed some of the logistics of teaching in LCs at Kingsborough including: Criteria to consider regarding which courses to link (e.g., courses that a large enough cohort of students might take simultaneously at some point in their program) […]
Meeting Notes Monday April 26, 2021.
Review of key points from the readings. Key characteristic of Learning Communities (LC’s). A curricular structure characterized by a cohort of students participating in an intentionally designed integrative study of an issue or theme through connected courses, experiences, and resources. Inherent Benefits of LCs. Providing a coherent, interdisciplinary space for intellectual engagement. Leveraging relationships among faculty, staff, and students to provide support. Connecting students with […]
Notes for May 24th
Well, we started with questions…and ended with questions! Kieren and I had sent the following to get the conversation started…. Should integration be the primary goal of LC work? What does integration among courses look like in a LC? How do we distinguish integrative learning from integrative thinking? Should we? How do we know integrative […]
Meeting Notes for 5/10/21: LCs and Equity
We began by exploring more possibilities for an LC with a Theater course that includes a focus on iambic pentameter, as a way of improving reading. The idea from a previous discussion was that the link should be between Theater and English. In this conversation, we explored the idea of an LC that links two Theater […]
Session 1
April 17th and 18th For this session, participants read through Huber and Hutchings’ Integrative Learning: Mapping the Terrain and we discussed most of the following questions: How have you conceived of integrative learning? The authors cite Boyer (1990) in stating that, “The capacity to connect is central to scholarship broadly conceived—whether focused on discovery and creativity, […]
