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The Great Questions Foundation Summer Course Redesign Workshops focus on helping faculty members incorporate the discussion-based study of transformative texts in general education courses they teach at community colleges. In each workshop, 10 community college faculty members will collaborate with two experienced faculty leaders on developing discussion-based pedagogy, student-centered study questions, assignments and a redesigned syllabus for a general education course they teach at their home institution. Expect to have meaningful and helpful discussions with community college faculty colleagues representing a number of institutions and academic disciplines from all over the country. Workshops will feature seminar discussion in a collaborative and supportive environment, conducted through Google Meet.
Each workshop will focus on a grouping of transformative texts from The Great Questions Foundation’s Transformative Text List. Workshops pair an ancient/classic text(s) with a modern or contemporary text, emphasizing the persistent human questions raised by each text across spans of time, place and culture. These workshops are less about engaging with these texts as experts and scholars and more about learning how they can help us productively raise persistent human questions with our students in the courses we teach. Each workshop will include four meetings over Zoom lasting two hours each, running for four consecutive weeks. Some texts will be read in excerpt. Upon completion of the workshop, faculty participants will each have incorporated the discussion-based study of one or more of the texts we will read into the curriculum of a general education course they teach.
at 28 different institutions have completed courses impacted by our summer curriculum redesign workshops.
respondents agreed or strongly agreed that their participation in a TGQF Summer Workshop helped them incorporate more discussion-based learning in the classes they teach.
The workshops played an important role in enhancing the confidence of the faculty in facilitating student-centered, discussion-based courses.
These courses stand out at the institutions where they are offered in providing students with an opportunity to engage in discussion-based learning. 98% of student respondents reported that their TGQF supported redesigned courses, which included many opportunities for participation in class discussion when compared with other courses they have taken at their institution. In these discussion-based courses, students felt free to engage with a diversity of viewpoints and ideas. 89% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that they felt free to explore opinions and/or points of view that are unpopular and/or not widely held in these redesigned courses.
Workshops will feature seminar discussion in a collaborative and supportive environment, conducted through Google Meet.
This opportunity is available to current community college faculty members who teach general education/core curriculum courses at accredited US institutions.
The application deadline is Friday, May 24
Notifications will be sent to selected participants on Friday, May 31
Participants will receive a $600 stipend stipend from The Great Questions Foundation upon successful completion of the workshop
Four consecutive Tuesdays beginning June 25, from 10am-12pm central // 11am-1pm eastern each session, and ending July 16
Led by:
Benli Shechter
Richard J. Daley College – City Colleges Of Chicago
and
Ted Hadzi-Antich Jr. Austin Community College
Alexis de Tocqueville
W.E.B. Du Bois
Four consecutive Thursdays, beginning July 25, from 1:30-3:30pm central time // 2:30-4:30pm eastern time, and ending August 15
Led by:
Four consecutive Tuesdays, beginning July 23, from 9am – 11am central time // 10am – 12pm eastern time, and ending August 13
Led by:
Zadie Smith
James Joyce
Workshops will feature seminar discussion in a collaborative and supportive environment, conducted through Zoom.
The Great Questions Foundation seeks to promote liberal education and core-text and discussion-based learning at the community college through supporting faculty development and course redesign and helping to establish and support core-text programs and courses.
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