Learning Community
Community-Based Teaching
Teaching and Learning for Community Impact
This Fall 2023 learning community is a place where instructors can explore a range of topics, challenges, opportunities, and tangents that arise within the wide world of community-based teaching.
In this setting, we use “community-based teaching” as shorthand for practices such as community-engaged teaching, service-learning, social action teaching, and more. What these practices all have in common is that they bring students, faculty, and community partners together in pursuit of community-defined, mutually beneficial goals.
In practice this may look like:
A social action course that challenges students to identify and work to change policy
A service-learning course that combines classroom and experiential learning through student volunteering and reflection
A community-engaged course in which significant portions of the syllabus are co-planned, or even co-taught, with community partners
Or another form of community-based teaching and learning or engaged scholarship
MEETING DETAILS
There will be six in-person meetings during the fall semester. Meetings will be held from 11:30 AM-1:00 PM. The meeting location and topics will vary by week. Lunch will be provided. Participants may be asked to complete readings related to community-based teaching prior to meetings.
DATE | TENTATIVE TOPICS |
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Wednesday, September 6 CTE Library |
The overarching goals for this session is to introduce faculty to one another; one another’s work, and allow C.L. the chance to understand the questions, concerns, and aspirations of the attendees. |
Wednesday, September 20 Booker House Conference Room |
Session overview:
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Wednesday, October 4 O’Neil Hall Conference Room 001 |
Session overview: Landscape of offices and organizations in and around UVA who support community-based teaching; Madison House overview, their student development experience, volunteer placements; funding sources at UVA; Public Service Pathways, contribution to university-wide recommitment to public service |
Wednesday, October 18 O’Neil Hall Conference Room 002 |
Session overview: Project based learning; flipped classrooms; crafting learning objectives; assessment in the engaged classroom; community feedback; student feedback; building mechanisms for feedback that improve the experience |
Wednesday, November 1 O’Neil Hall Conference Room 002 |
Session overview: Return to student reflections; special considerations for grading in the engaged classroom |
Wednesday, November 15 O’Neil Hall Conference Room 002 |
Session overview: Scholarship of engagement; planning ahead for publication, including provisions for IRB approval; presenting at conferences; co-writing with community partners; journals from the field |
PARTICIPATION
These sessions are open to any UVA colleagues interested in community-based teaching, engaged scholarship, and university-community partnerships, including full-time and part-time faculty (tenured/tenure-track, AGFM), graduate students, postdocs, and staff. No prior experience is required. You can register for any individual session or the whole series.
SPONSORS
This learning community is organized with support from the Center for Teaching Excellence and Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Outreach.
Event Details
- Where: O’Neil Hall Conference Room 002
- Format: In-Person
- Audience: Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdocs
Questions about the event?
Contact edb2q@virginia.edu.
