Reynolds Learning Communities Faculty Laid For Upcoming Year
Friday, June 21, 2019
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Virginia Director of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering as well as Math) MD Megan Healy lately visited the college to portion her presentation “Cooperative Learning is a Good Fit alongside Learning Communities” alongside the Reynolds Learning Communities faculty.
A learning community is when 2 (or more) course of report sections inwards the same semester are linked together as well as the same students enroll inwards both course of report sections. Professors operate together to coordinate assignments, content, as well as amend crossover learning betwixt the courses. Benefits for Reynolds students include convenient scheduling, shared assignments as well as topics, back upwards systems, the courses yet encounter the requirements for students’ majors. There’s no additional terms for taking a learning community equally compared to taking the classes separately.
Dr. Healy previously taught biological scientific discipline at Patrick Henry Community College inwards Martinsville, as well as afterward played a leadership purpose inwards the Virginia Community College System’s re-engineering assay to amend educatee success as well as streamline developmental studies inwards community colleges throughout the Commonwealth.
The Learning Communities mini-summer works life included a set out of rich sessions designed to assist learning communities faculty alongside creating activities as well as assignments leading to improved educatee engagement, memory as well as success.
During the session, Reynolds Learning Community Facilitator as well as English linguistic communication professor Karyn Pallay likewise led a session on Developing Critical Thinking Skills – an essential competency inwards whatever academic dependent area as well as for successful living.
Miles McCrimmon, Steve Brandon, Carolyn Quenstedt as well as Jena Morrison participated inwards a faculty panel to verbalise over successful learning community strategies for both in- as well as out-of-class activities.
Learning Communities faculty were likewise provided alongside fourth dimension as well as guidance for planning their educational activity collaborations as well as several facilitating exercises developed past times the Washington Center for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education at The Evergreen State College were enfolded into this session.
To discovery out to a greater extent than nearly Reynolds Learning Communities, view Reynolds.edu/LC.