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It’s About Engagement
Beyond supporting individual educators and courses, CETL is proud to support college and university-wide initiatives that move KSU’s pedagogical agenda forward and align us with the priorities of the University System of Georgia.
CETL Scholarly Teaching provides a robust set of professional development opportunities supporting the It’s About Engagement (IAE) initiative. This initiative aims to increase capacity at the university for High Impact Practices focused on three forms of experiential learning—undergraduate research, service-learning, and internships/co-ops. The initiative constitutes KSU’s 10-year Quality Enhancement Plan, which is mandated by SACSCOC for accreditation purposes. We at CETL are proud to have designed the original proposal for what eventually became IAE, and that it was selected among the 11 other proposals submitted. Our role is now to support the faculty development arm of the initiative.
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CETL Scholarly Teaching’s programming for IAE is intended to boost and expand existing faculty capacity in designing and facilitating meaningful undergraduate research, service-learning, and internships/co-op experiences for students.
PROGRAMMING ELEMENTS
• IAE Workshop series consisting of 7 workshops per year on a 5-year plan • Online resources • Custom programming on demand for colleges and other units • Engagement-focused individual consultations
FUNDED PROGRAMS
• Travel Grants to attend conferences on the 3 pillars (not funded this year due to COVID-19 travel restrictions) • Faculty Learning Communities (year-long development opportunities in partnership with the IEA steering committee) • Course ReDesign Institutes (this year we offered a week-long Internships and Co-ops Course ReDesign Institute and we again were able to fund an additional one focused on Undergraduate Research) • Reflection Ratings Norming Session (training sessions for faculty who will be scoring student reflection narratives to quantify the learning happening in IAE courses) • New! Scholars for Reflective Practice in Learning Program
During this academic year, CETL has been able to increase its support for this transformative initiative by welcoming a new CETL Fellow for Reflective Practice in Learning, Dr. Michelle Head. Dr. Head started in this position January 2021. In addition to infusing reflection into multiple existing CETL workshops and supporting ongoing IAE programming, she has conducted consultations with faculty groups across the university, hosted custom workshops to help colleges meet their goals, and designed the new CETL Scholars for Reflective Practice in Learning program.
In May 2021 ,the inaugural group of CETL Scholars for Reflective Practice in Learning began their work developing a deeper understanding of the research and theory that supports reflective practices in learning. This group of 11 faculty, representing 6 colleges, will continue to work closely with their IAE college liaisons through the 2021-2022 academic year to develop custom supports for faculty in their colleges to further meet the goals laid out by the IAE initiative. In addition, this group will work collaboratively to develop materials for the CETL Scholarly Teaching Resource webpage. These resources will include, but are not limited to, examples of critical reflection assignments, examples of scaffolded learning activities to foster reflection throughout a course, and grading/feedback methods for reflective assignments.
