FACULTY PROGRAMMING
Faculty Book Club
Each semester a text is selected for the faculty book club based on the annual faculty survey and faculty recommendations. We meet a few times over the semester to discuss 1-3 chapters at a time. A google document records book club discussion so that participants can go back and review the discussions before course planning and course improvement. Look out for emails to sign up for book clubs at the beginning of each semester.
2020 Books:
Winter 2020 Session: Small Teaching Online
Spring 2020 Semester: Minds Online
Summer 2020: Distracted and Radical Pedagogy
Writing Camps
Every Summer the CTE hosts a 12 week writing workshop. Faculty meet weekly using WRITING YOUR JOURNAL ARTICLE in 12 Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success. In this text the author Wendy Laura Belcher breaks down the writing process into manageable tasks to help anyone prepare an article for publication in just 12 weeks. Faculty will be able to keep each other accountable and peer review each other’s work.
Additionally 1-3 day writing camps for specific publications and grants such as CourseSource Louisiana Board of Regents grants will be provided. See Calendar of events and emails from the center for specific dates.
Collaborative Workshop Series
Nicholls State instructors are amazing, and have so much knowledge to share! And NOT just with your students. We’d love to have you pair with us to share the things that you are doing in your classrooms or learning from conferences you have attended with your fellow instructors.
Propose a topic within one of the following themes, pick a fellow faculty member or CTE staff member with whom you’d like to be paired, and work with that person to build an engaging and interactive workshop for your peers.
Consider these themes as you propose topic ideas and dates:
- Engaging students in a hyflex/hybrid/online modality
- Alternative assessments to multiple choice exams
- Mastery or specification grading
- Universal Design
To propose and schedule a workshop please fill out the following form
Learning Communities
Faculty interested in starting learning communities around specific themes such as a pedagogical journal club, specific pedagogical methods or use of a specific technology please contact the CTE. We can advertise meetings, provide physical space for the meetings and also help facilitate gatherings. Please contact Dr. Aimee Hollander and the Center at cte@nicholls.edu
New Faculty Institute
Starting Fall 2020 a year long program to build community among new Nicholls State Faculty. The goal of the institute is to support innovative teaching and scholarly achievement amongst new faculty.
