Integrative Teaching

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Integrative Teaching Learning

• FIPSE Faculty Workshop 1
• Roanoke College
• February 15 19, 2007

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Our Purpose

• Help faculty think more specifically about ways
  to enhance integrative teaching learning at
  Roanoke
• Gather faculty input to help us plan further
  FIPSE efforts
• faculty development
• a proposal for Collaborative Teaching Grants
  (coming out later this spring)

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Does This Ring True?

• In what he called an iron law, the dean of the
  college at University of Chicago once stated,
• Students shall not be expected to integrate
  anything the faculty cant or wont.
• Jerry G. Gaff, Avoiding the Potholes
  Strategies for Reforming General Education,
  Educational Record, Fall 1980 55.

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What Is Integrative Learning?

• A working definition
• A system of learning that deliberately makes
  connections between classes, fields, and academic
  and co-curricular life, with the end goal being
  the development of students who can encounter new
  challenges and new knowledge in a productive
  manner.
• See handout.

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What Do We Do? What Could We Do? (Activity
1--Handout)

• Check off the opportunities for enhancing
  integrative learning that Roanoke already has or
  does.
• Star the integrative opportunities you would like
  Roanoke to explore.
• Discuss.

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What Do We Do? What Could We Do? (Activity
2--Concept Map)

• Note courses from which students bring knowledge,
  insights, skills relevant to your coursearrows
  pointing inward
• Note courses to which students can transfer
  knowledge skills gained in your coursearrows
  pointing outward to other courses
• List WAYS YOU ALREADY FOREGROUND your courses
  integrative nature
• List THINGS YOU COULD DO to make connections more
  explicit

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What Can Others Add?

• Now trade with a partner.
• What can your partner add to your concept map?
• Discussion.