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The Center for Engaged, Learning, Teaching & Scholarship provides a number of professional development programs for faculty and staff. Our programs are open to all instructors at LUC - full time, clinical, adjunct, and staff and PhD students who teach classes.

Engaged Teaching and Learning Newsletter

This monthly newsletter shares the latest news, events, and programming related to engaged teaching and learning in the Center for Engaged, Learning, Teaching & Scholarship and across Loyola University Chicago. You can sign up for the newsletter here.

Fall 2024 Faculty Development Programming

Join us in Fall Semester for a wide variety of Faculty Development programs!

Here is a list of dates and times for our Faculty Development Programs throughout the Fall 2024.

Faculty Certificate in Experiential Learning

CELTS offers a faculty certificate program for Loyola's faculty to build strategies in teaching experiential learning courses. Faculty will be encouraged to engage in five workshops and as a culminating project, faculty will share a course syllabus including the experiential learning course elements. Upon completion of the series, faculty participants will:

To sign up, use this form, or email Susan Haarman at shaarman@luc.edu to get more information.

Fall Sessions

  • Integrated Course Design: Part 1 - Designing Your Course for Significant Learning - Thursday 9/12  - 2:30pm-4:00pm
  • Integrated Course Design: Part 2 - Assessing Reflection and Experiential Learning - Thursday 9/19  - 2:30pm-4:00pm
  • Theories of Experiential Learning -  Thursday 9/26  - 2:30pm-4:00pm
  • Designing Reflection Assignment and Practices -   Thursday 10/10  - 2:30pm-4:00pm
  • Working with Community Partners -  Thursday 10/24  - 2:30pm-4:00pm

All sessions will be offered on Zoom - Zoom Link for all session

Academic Internship Faculty Learning Community

The Academic Internship Faculty Learning Community is open to all those instructors and coordinators of academic interns across disciplines. This group will be directed by the questions and interests of its participants and will focus on integrating the academic internship experience of students into coursework by means of critical reflection, proactively supporting students’ pre-professional experiences, and pedagogical best practices for engaged learning courses. For more information email Michelle Peters at mpeters1@luc.edu. You do not need to register ahead of time to join us!

Please complete this brief form to let us know you are joining us. 

Lunch will be provided! All fall 2024 sessions will meet in person at the following times:

·     Thursday, September 5 - 12:30 - 1:30 pm
·     Thursday, October 3 - 12:30 - 1:30 pm
·     Thursday, November 7 - 12:30 - 1:30 pm

Active Learning Book Group: Small Teaching

Join other faculty as we read and discuss Small Teaching by James M. Lang. Come discuss the book, create active learning strategies to implement as soon as your next class period, and share active learning strategies with fellow faculty! 

This group will meet in person in Sullivan 201 and lunch will be provided.

Monday, 9/9 - 12:30pm-1:30 pm

Monday, 10/14 - 12:30pm-1:30 pm - Mundelein 1403

Monday, 11/4 - 12:30pm-1:30 pm

Please fill out this interest form or email shaarman@luc.edu if you have questions.

STEM Faculty Learning Community

Faculty Learning Communities are monthly meetings of faculty from STEM disciplines where faculty can discuss the pedagogy best practices and challenges unique to their field, trending issues, and build collegiality. All meetings in Fall 2024 will be held in person in Sullivan 201 and include lunch. For more information email Susan Haarman at shaarman@luc.edu or sign up for more information here. No need to register beforehand to attend!

    • Wednesday, 9/11, 12:30pm-1:30pm
    • Wednesday, 10/9, 12:30pm-1:30pm
    • Wednesday, 11/6, 12:30pm-1:30pm

Engaged Learning Community of Practice

Join instructors teaching Engaged Learning courses from around the University to discuss elements of teaching an Engaged Learning course, including different approaches to the different Engaged Learning categories, creating engaged teaching and learning spaces, working with community partners, and developing robust techniques for teaching Engaged Learning courses. The focus on various strategies and best practices will be led by the priorities of participants, as the community of practice will develop the topics and focus of the meetings. Readings and resources will be provided throughout the community of practice meetings. Sign up here

Fall 2024 Dates

Tuesdays 12:00 - 1:00 pm

9/17

10/15

11/12

All meetings on zoom - Zoom Link

Faculty Resource Tool Kit

This Faculty Resource Tool Kit has been curated by the CELTS team to provide educators with the resources most commonly recommended in CELTS faculty development programs to facilitate high-impact, experiential learning. In an effort to support your teaching and learning strategies for engaged learning courses. 

Course Consultation

Want help reimagining a course? The CELTS staff are happy to support you! Reach out to Susan Haarman at shaarman@luc.edu to start the conversation.