Faculty Learning Communities: 2024-2025
A faculty learning community (FLC) meets regularly to explore a teaching topic that interests them. This interdisciplinary group researches the topic, reads together, and supports each other in making positive changes in the classroom. Since Fall 2013, members of the VU faculty have been involved in multiple FLCs each year.
Engaging the Third Side: Responding to Controversy with Classroom Strategies
Natalie Krivas (English)
For so many educators, teaching challenging topics can seem daunting given the complexity and potential for conflict. This FLC will offer participants hands-on strategies for teaching conflict resolution, active listening,…
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Sedefka Beck (Economics)
The introduction of ChatGPT has sparked debates about its role in education, particularly regarding whether schools should incorporate generative AI into the classroom or prohibit its use. Initially, some schools…
Read more »Empowering Scholarship: Generating Research & Writing from our Courses
Margarita Rayzberg (Sociology & Criminology)
Participants in this FLC will learn about and experiment with strategies for how to use the work we are already doing in the classroom to strengthen our research and publishing….
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