Building Learning Communities in the Two-Year College Classroom
Abstract
This poster presentation will focus on the challenges of creating a learning community in the two-year college classroom and the assessment of two initiatives I piloted this year. Building on the scholarship that correlates learning communities with increased engagement and positive learning outcomes, I have endeavored to develop learning communities in my first-year composition classes in order to combat the general lack of any feeling of community amongst my mostly non-traditional students. On my poster, I will present two assignments I developed to create a learning community – a class-wide book club and a hub-and-spoke blog network – along with an analysis of the results of my on-going assessment of both initiatives. Using a variety of examples from my class, I will present the audience with strategies for creating learning communities in the two-year college classroom along with effective assessment strategies.
Location
Rooms 113 & 115
Recommended Citation
Crowther, Kathryn, "Building Learning Communities in the Two-Year College Classroom" (2015). SoTL Commons Conference. 17.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sotlcommons/SoTL/2015/17
Building Learning Communities in the Two-Year College Classroom
Rooms 113 & 115
This poster presentation will focus on the challenges of creating a learning community in the two-year college classroom and the assessment of two initiatives I piloted this year. Building on the scholarship that correlates learning communities with increased engagement and positive learning outcomes, I have endeavored to develop learning communities in my first-year composition classes in order to combat the general lack of any feeling of community amongst my mostly non-traditional students. On my poster, I will present two assignments I developed to create a learning community – a class-wide book club and a hub-and-spoke blog network – along with an analysis of the results of my on-going assessment of both initiatives. Using a variety of examples from my class, I will present the audience with strategies for creating learning communities in the two-year college classroom along with effective assessment strategies.
