FPLC Strategic Plan 2008-9

From CTLpedia

Connecting and Engaging Faculty and Staff to Enhance Teaching and Learning: The MCC Faculty and Professional Learning Communities (FPLC) Program Strategic Plan

Jonelle Moore, FPLC Director and English Faculty, 461-7000

Contents 1 Summary 2 The 2008-9 FPLC Strategic Plan 2.1 Vision 2.2 Mission 2.3 Goals and Objectives 3 Goal 1 Objectives and Strategies 4 Goal 2 Objectives and Strategies

Summary

The FPLC Program goals are connecting and engaging faculty and staff to improve teaching and learning. Interdisciplinary groups engage in seminars, retreats, and communication about a selected topic. This program for 2008-9 has enrolled xx members in eight different FPLCs: Sustainability, Global Learning, Developmental Education/Retention, Information Literacy, New Technologies, and Online Learning. Goals for the year include planning for sustainability of the program and integration of human subjects protection via our College Research Review Committee.

The 2008-9 FPLC Strategic Plan

Vision

Our Faculty and Professional Learning Communities (FPLC) Program will be integral to helping MCC strive for and reflect its values of learning, excellence, inclusiveness, and community.

Mission

Our FPLC Program is an institutional process promoting collaboration, communication, scholarly teaching, and scholarship to achieve our strategic goals: excellence, access, student support, inclusiveness, organizational effectiveness, professional development, community engagement and effective technology use.

Goals and Objectives

• Goal 1: Promote connections and collaboration in making MCC a learning-centered institution.
  • Objective 1: Enhance sense of community within FPLCs to maximize engagement and persistence.
  • Objective 2: Strengthen connections among FPLCs to enhance scholarly teaching.
  • Objective 3: Recruit new and continuing members across disciplines and employee groups to sustain existing communities and develop new FPLCs.
• Goal 2: Promote engagement in scholarly teaching by all faculty and staff to make MCC a learning-centered institution
  • Objective 1: Promote engagement in scholarly teaching by all faculty and staff
  • Objective 2: Assess program outcomes for students, FPLC members and the institution
  • Objective 3: Communicate about scholarly teaching and learning and FPLC program outcomes

Goal 1 Objectives and Strategies

Goal 1: Promote connections and collaboration in making MCC a learning-centered institution.

Objective 1: Enhance sense of community within FPLCs to maximize engagement and persistence.

Strategy 1: Employ community principles within each FPLC and throughout the FPLC program

• Codify and disseminate community principles
• Apply learner-centered principles within FPLCs
• Allow and encourage members to determine goals and activities of FPLCs
• Facilitators explicitly implement community principles
• Use team-building activities to build community
• Use social gatherings to increase connectedness and strengthen community.

Strategy 2: Support and develop facilitators to enhance facilitation and leadership skills.

• Use the FPLC leadership to support the facilitator community and coordinate the FPLC program.
• Select dedicated and committed facilitators
• Create a community of facilitators led by Director
• Recognize facilitators for creating effective communities
• Promote facilitator reassigned time vs. contract
• Promote continued engagement of trained facilitators
• Increase facilitator training in team-building, conflict resolution, etc.
• Send facilitators to Claremont Facilitator Institute

Objective 2: Strengthen connections among FPLCs to enhance scholarly teaching

Strategy 1: Use FPLC retreats to create connections among FPLCs

• Obtain funding for effective and enjoyable retreats
• Engage facilitator community in planning effective retreats

Strategy 2: Use social events to connect among FPLCs

• Plan social events hosted by selected communities to connect FPLCs.
• Identify suitable locations for off campus events

Objective 3: Recruit new and continuing members across disciplines and employee groups to sustain existing communities and develop new FPLCs

Strategy 1: Select FPLC topics with broad appeal to potential members

• Solicit proposals for FPLCs from college community
• Align FPLC topics with college strategic plan

Strategy 2: Broaden recruitment to attract members who do not usually participate in campus activities

• Recruit from other campus organizations or committees
• Use multiple methods to recruit members
• Target groups with recruitment
• Promote connections of the FPLC program to other learning-centered initiatives

Strategy 3: Encourage and get administrative support for all employee groups to participate

• Communicate with supervisors to pre-approve employee participation
• Get administrative support for participation by all

Strategy 4: Reach out to adjunct faculty

• Promote CAFE credit program
• Demonstrate benefits of participation in FPLC for adjuncts

Strategy 5: Reach out to faculty

• Promote FPLC as better way to complete FEP.
• Promote FPLC as great way to satisfy service requirements.
• Promote FPLC as great way to receive FPG for professional development.

Goal 2 Objectives and Strategies

Goal 2: Promote engagement in scholarly teaching by all faculty and staff to make MCC a learning-centered institution

Objective 1: Promote engagement in scholarly teaching by all faculty and staff

Strategy 1: Promote understanding of scholarly approach to enhancing teaching and learning by all.

• Define scholarly teaching broadly to include anything that improves student success
• Collect and disseminate papers on scholarly teaching
• Use FPLC retreats to model/share scholarly approach.
• Lead and model scholarly approach (facilitators and members).

Strategy 2: Support for classroom research to empower members to actively engage in scholarship.

• Improve scholarly resources for members

• Use FPLC budget for focus books
• Work with librarians
• Develop library research service that will access ASU library for FPLC members

• Help faculty develop assessments for their classroom research
• Support FPLC members to get HSR-IRB-CRRC approval for their projects
• Maintain statistical software for FPLC use

Strategy 3: Motivate faculty and staff to engage in scholarly teaching

• Challenge faculty to engage in scholarly teaching
• Recognize the engagement of members in scholarly teaching

• Award certificates of participation
• Send letters to department chairs

• Reward FPLC members with FPG
• Promote completion of scholarly FEPs within FPLCs

• Collect examples of FEPs done within FPLCs
• Promote completion of required FEPs within FPLCs

Strategy 4: Support the scholarship of teaching and learning by those faculty who choose to engage therein.

• Support FPLC member's travel to present at conferences (subject to FPLC guidelines).

Objective 2: Assess program outcomes for students, FPLC members and the institution

Strategy 1: Document impact of individual projects within FPLC program on student learning at MCC

• Communicate impacts via CTLpedia
• Relate projects to Student Outcomes Assessment

Strategy 2: Survey program impacts on member's professional development

• Assess engagement in scholarly teaching
• Assess member perceptions of learning about teaching and learning
• Document member sabbaticals, grants, awards, fellowships, etc related to or stemming from FPLC engagement

Strategy 3: Evaluate facilitator practices and approaches

• Query facilitator approaches to facilitation of FPLCs
• Assess levels of community created in FPLCs

Strategy 4: Document impacts on institution

• Collect data about membership
• Collect data on internal and external communications about program that reflect well on the institution
• Collect data on grants and awards received by FPLC members that are related to FPLC participation

Objective 3: Communicate about scholarly teaching and learning and FPLC program outcomes

Strategy 1: Sponsor and develop MCC Teaching and Learning Conference

• Encourage presentations by all members
• Involve a dynamic and well-known speaker
• Promote involvement across the district

Strategy 2: Document impact of individual projects within FPLC program on T&L at MCC in CTLpedia.

• Publicize the documentation available in CTLpedia
• Increase member completion of CTLpedia articles

Strategy 3: Market the program across the college and district and nationwide as a model for community colleges

• Participate in public showcases whenever needed.
• Communicate distinction between FPLC approach and traditional committee or task force.
• Develop publications on the FPLC principles and successes

Strategy 4: Improve communication about FPLC program with our administration

• Ensure understanding of program goals, processes, and successes
• Establish regular line of communication with administration