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FEXL's Faculty Learning Communities provide faculty with multiple ways to participate in active, collaborative, year-long engagement with experiential learning. These programs range in formality, mode, and commitment so that all of our colleagues can participate in ways that fit best with their own work and life commitments. All of these programs provide encouragement, support, and reflection.
Digital Teams Space
All participating faculty will be added to FEXL's Microsoft Team space. This digital space provides a place not bound by location or time for ongoing collaboration, advice, and sharing.
Monarch Monthly Idea Exchanges
Every month, FEXL will hold brown bag sessions where we highlight what our own faculty are doing instead of investing in outside experts. This ongoing type of faculty learning shows that as an institution we "recognize that our faculty are able and valuable" (Smith, 2018).
Learning Circles
A Study Circle is "a process where a group of practitioners read and discuss educational theory and research and consider its implications for classroom and program practice" (CAL, 2007, II-40). One of the goals of FEXL's Learning Circles is to connect and explore the theories and research with regards to our own work. See this example-in-progress from a website one of our team members is currently building for her own department.
References
Center for Adult English Language Acquisition. (2007). The CAELA guide for adult ESL trainers: Tools for training practitioners working with adult English language learners. Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics.
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