Future Faculty Learning Community
This learning community serves graduate students who are interested in exploring issues related to college teaching, ranging from bread-and-butter pedagogical techniques to strategies for making teaching more equitable, diverse, and inclusive to classroom management and course organization tips and tricks. This circle is appropriate for any graduate student, whether currently teaching as an instructor of record, serving as a teaching assistant, or considering college teaching as a career path. Discussions are framed around the content of a scholarly text concerning teaching in higher education, but no pre-reading is expected or required.
Fall 2025
In Fall 2025, we will be basing our discussions on Teaching Gradually, edited by Kacie L. Armstrong, Lauren A. Genova, John Wyatt Greenlee, and Derina S. Samuel. Written by graduate student instructors for graduate students, this book gives a wide-ranging introduction to college teaching. Our discussions will connect this text to participants' journeys as instructors and to ISU's signature pedagogy, the Framework for Inclusive Teaching Excellence. This learning community is open to all graduate students, with weekly meetings every Tuesday from September 9th through November 18th. We will be meeting in person in Williams Hall 326. No registration is necessary—come as you can and leave when you must.
Synchronous Meetings:
All meetings are from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. on their respective days.
Tuesday, September 9
Tuesday, September 16
Tuesday, September 23
Tuesday, September 30
Tuesday, October 7
Tuesday, October 14
Tuesday, October 21
Tuesday, October 28
Tuesday, November 4
Tuesday, November 11
Tuesday, November 18
Location:
Williams 326
Facilitators:
Emily Jones, Center for Integrated Professional Development
David Giovagnoli, Center for Integrated Professional Development
Edcel Cintron-Gonzalez, Center for Integrated Professional Development GA
Intended Audience: This learning community is open to all graduate students. No Registration is Required
Workshops and other Learning Communities
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Professional Development Workshops
Our mission is to support course instructors in their pursuit of excellence and innovation in teaching and the effective use of technology. See our current professional development offerings.
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Early Career Learning Community
Join your peers in this open and welcoming environment designed to reduce your stress and increase your success! Explore topics which inform your teaching, scholarship, and career advancement.
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Learning Communities
Learning communities are professional development opportunities where a group of instructors meets regularly to discuss pedagogical strategies and challenges to improve their teaching. We offer the following learning communities this semester.
If you need a special accommodation to fully participate in a Center event or service, please contact the Center at ProDev@ilstu.edu.