Each semester, the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning hosts multiple semester-long interdisciplinary cohorts designed to help innovate or refine teaching techniques and learning activities. Cohorts typically meet four to six times per semester. Some cohorts may meet in person, while others may meet virtually. In all cases, the participants serve as a learning community for one another.
Faculty Learning Communities
Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) are simply groups of faculty who meet several times over the course of a semester around a single theme. FLCs will often take the form of learning and investigating at first and will then attempt implementation in the classroom and share results.
Book Clubs
Spring 2025 Book Club: Slow Productivity
Join this Spring Faculty Reading Club as we delve into Cal Newport’s “Slow Productivity”. From the aggressive rethinking of workload management, to introducing seasonal variation, to shifting your performance toward long-term quality, Slow Productivity provides a roadmap for escaping overload and arriving instead at a more timeless approach to pursuing meaningful accomplishment. Through engaging discussions and practical workbook exercises, we’ll identify and focus on our primary objectives, aligning them with our unique sense of purpose as educators. This collaborative journey promises to enhance your professional fulfillment and productivity. Meetings will take place on Zoom, but participants can pick up a free copy of the physical book.
Zoom meetings will be 2pm-3pm on select Wednesdays: Jan. 22, Feb. 5, Feb. 12, Feb. 19, Feb. 26, March 5, and March 12. (7 meetings total).
Sign up here: https://ucf.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bK2Irm9lBJqZ7TM
Faculty Writing Club
Join your fellow faculty on Friday mornings from 10:00 AM–12:00 PM (noon) to network, be productive, and provide gentle accountability. You can join online or in person at the Faculty Center. If you are coming in person, feel free to bring your device, but we’ll also have laptops you can borrow.
We will spend the first five (5) minutes sharing our goals for the time block and then spend the rest of the time working on our individual projects. During the last five (5) minutes, we will share what we’ve accomplished and what we plan to do next time. Everyone is welcome.
If you have questions or ideas or would like to be added to the Microsoft Team for virtual writing, please contact Aimee deNoyelles, Senior Instructional Designer with the Division of Digital Learning.