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MCC Daily Tribune

TCC: Announcing Our Theme and Related Programs for 2024-25: Designing with Intentionality

The TCC welcomes faculty and staff to another year of professional learning! Our theme this year is Designing with Intentionality, with a focus on the ways—both large and small—we can create the spaces and experiences necessary for learning and flourishing. 

The book we have chosen as a complement to the theme is The New College Classroom by Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis. The book encourages a design mindset towards our own practices as educators, in recognition of the fact that we and our students are not fixed or stagnant. Join colleages across MCC in sustained discussion of the book this year by participating in a reading group. Facilitators were announced in the Sept. 17 Tribune.

The TCC’s Conversations series begins Monday, Sept. 30, with “Building Interpersonal Relationships,” facilitated by professors Toya Mañón (Education & Human Services) and Bob Muhlnickel (English & Philosophy).

Relationship-building is an effective and often overlooked method of promoting deeper learning in all subject areas. This conversation consists of a panel of MCC faculty who will describe and demonstrate methods of fostering personal disclosure and student-to-student problem solving, essential parts of personal relationships that enhance learning.  We will also review research on the benefits of building classroom community and introduce an instrument faculty can use to assess the level of community in their classes.

All faculty and staff are welcome!

The event is designed to meet the following goals of the Teaching and Creativity Center's programming: 

  • Goal 1: Create a culture of critical reflection, continual growth, and collaboration for faculty at all stages of professional growth 
  • Goal 2: Promote evidence-based, high-impact, innovative course design and teaching strategies that improve student outcomes 
  • Goal 3: Facilitate faculty inquiry into the study of teaching & learning with an equity lens 

Mark your calendars for the Oct. and Nov. conversations, too:

  • Oct 22: Helping Students See Connections between Courses
  • Nov 13: Grading for Growth

Details will appear in the Employee Tribune a week or so prior to the events.

Amy Burtner
Teaching and Creativity Center
09/20/2024