Raquel Adams, Associate Professor of Fine Arts
Background:
- Southwest Tennessee Community College
- QEP Director
- Course Developer
- TBR HIP Ambassador: TEL and Special Projects
- CTL Teaching Fellow
- Focus Areas: Digital Literacy, Student Engagement, Equity and Inclusion Practitioner, HIPs
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Agenda
- Learning Objectives and Session Prompt
- Define HIPs
- Communities of Practice: HIPs Faculty Development Track
- HIPs Development Track Activities and Course Progression
- HIPs Professional Development Session Offerings
- Faculty Response
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Learning Objectives
This session is intended to assist attendees in identifying strategies to engage, support, and validate faculty in implementing HIPs and how that work can be leveraged to scale HIPs across your institution. Attendees can expect concrete examples for quick application and suggestions for setting long-term goals for faculty and staff.
Session Prompt: 3-2-1 Reflection
As we move along, I'd like you to take a few notes to share at the end of today's session:
- Three things you learned
- Two things you might try
- One thing you'll share
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High Impact Practices
A high-impact practice (HIP) is a pedagogical approach that requires an investment of time and energy over an extended period and has unusually positive effects on student engagement in educationally purposeful behavior (Kuh, 2010). High-impact practices are evidence-based teaching and learning practices that have been widely tested and shown to be beneficial for college students (Kuh, 2008).
Characteristics of high-impact activities include 8 Key Elements:
- Setting appropriately high expectations
- Significant investment of time and effort by students for an extended period of time
- Interaction with faculty and peers about substantive matters
- Experiences with diversity
- Frequent feedback
- Reflection and integrative learning
- Real-world applications
- Demonstrated competence
HIPs: Tennessee Board of Regents
- Advising
- Certifications
- First Year Experience/Seminar
- Global Cultural Awareness
- Honors Education
- Learning Communities
- Peer Mentors
- Service Learning
- Student Employment
- Study Abroad
- Technology Enhanced Learning/E-Portfolios
- Undergraduate Research
- Work-based Learning
Communities of Practice
Communities of practice (COP) are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly. This COP allows faculty to discuss and reflect on various aspects of teaching, the scholarship of teaching, active and deep learning, and other forms of faculty life, including scholarly activity. The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence uses COPs:
- To support the teaching and learning mission of the college (focus on students, excellence, and community)
- To provide a collegial, supportive, collaborative, and transdisciplinary environment for faculty to discuss and reflect upon their practice as educators
- To share knowledge about best practices in teaching, pedagogy, and assessment of student learning and ways to successfully implement those practices (to move from best practices to best practitioners)
- To build awareness and engage faculty in the scholarship of teaching and learning
- To disseminate knowledge about evidence-based teaching and learning strategies that promote deep learning and student engagement
HIPs Development Track
- Review HIPs coded by TBR
- Outline minimum definitions of practice
- Review TBR recommendations for implementation
- Course Planning
- Introduction of HIP Ambassadors
- Badge awarded for successful completion: HIPs Liaison
HIPs Development Track Checkpoints
- Choose your HIP
- Attache SLOs
- Develop action plan for implementation: lesson plan
- Develop student documents: student artifacts and surveys
- Share plans with department chairs, advising and other student affairs personnel
- Submit implementation form/application for coding
- Badge awarded for successful completion: HIPs Liaison
- Faculty share out event
Looking for something less time consuming?
Here are some stand alone session offerings that we developed to help faculty get started in their HIPs implementation:
- You're Probably More 'HIP' Than You Think
- Who Are Your HIP Ambassadors?
- TEL: What it Takes to Code Your Course as a HIP
- Increasing Student Engagement Through the Use of Technology
- HIPs Newsletters
Faculty Response
Thank you for joining me today!
Keep in touch!
radams11@southwest.tn.edu
Let's look at your responses to today's prompt.