Faculty Development Programs

This monthly newsletter shares the latest news, events, and programming related to engaged teaching and learning in the Center for Engaged, Learning, Teaching & Scholarship and across Loyola University Chicago. You can sign up for the newsletter here.

CELTS offers a faculty certificate program for Loyola's faculty to build strategies in teaching experiential learning courses. Faculty will be encouraged to engage in five workshops and as a culminating project, faculty will share a course syllabus including the experiential learning course elements. Upon completion of the series, faculty participants will:

• earn a faculty development certificate in experiential learning
• be named a Community-Engaged Experiential Learning Scholar
• have priority access to Engaged Teaching and Learning Faculty Funding

To sign up, use this form, or email Susan Haarman at shaarman@luc.edu to get more information.

Spring Sessions

• Thursday 01/30 - 10:00am-11:30am
• Thursday 02/06 - 10:00am-11:30am
• Thursday 02/20 - 10:00am-11:30am
• Thursday 03/13 - 10:00am-11:30am
• Thursday 03/27 - 10:00am-11:30am

All sessions will be offered on Zoom - Zoom Link for all session

The Academic Internship Faculty Learning Community is open to all those instructors and coordinators of academic interns across disciplines. This group will be directed by the questions and interests of its participants and will focus on integrating the academic internship experience of students into coursework by means of critical reflection, proactively supporting students’ pre-professional experiences, and pedagogical best practices for engaged learning courses. For more information email Michelle Peters at mpeters1@luc.edu. You do not need to register ahead of time to join us!

Please complete this brief form to let us know you are joining us.  

Spring 2025 sessions will meet virtually at the following times:

•  Monday, 01/12, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
•  Monday, 02/10, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
•  Monday, 03/10, 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Zoom link for Spring 2025 meetings.

Join other faculty as we read and discuss Small Teaching by James M. Lang. Come discuss the book, create active learning strategies to implement as soon as your next class period, and share active learning strategies with fellow faculty! 

This group will meet in person at Sullivan Center Room 201

Faculty Learning Communities are monthly meetings of faculty from STEM disciplines where faculty can discuss the pedagogy best practices and challenges unique to their field, trending issues, and build collegiality. All meetings in Spring 2025 will be held in person in Mundelein 1403. For more information email Susan Haarman at shaarman@luc.edu or sign up for more information here. No need to register beforehand to attend!

• • Wednesday, 02/12, 12:30pm-1:30pm 
  • Wednesday, 03/12, 12:30pm-1:30pm
  • Wednesday, 04/16, 12:30pm-1:30pm

Join instructors teaching Engaged Learning courses from around the University to discuss elements of teaching an Engaged Learning course, including different approaches to the different Engaged Learning categories, creating engaged teaching and learning spaces, working with community partners, and developing robust techniques for teaching Engaged Learning courses. The focus on various strategies and best practices will be led by the priorities of participants, as the community of practice will develop the topics and focus of the meetings. Readings and resources will be provided throughout the community of practice meetings. Sign up here

Spring 2025 Dates

Tuesdays 12:00 - 1:00 pm

01/28

02/11

03/11

All meetings on zoom - Zoom Link

This Faculty Resource Tool Kit has been curated by the CELTS team to provide educators with the resources most commonly recommended in CELTS faculty development programs to facilitate high-impact, experiential learning. In an effort to support your teaching and learning strategies for engaged learning courses. 

Want help reimagining a course? The CELTS staff are happy to support you! Reach out to Susan Haarman at shaarman@luc.edu to start the conversation.