FIN Commons- Parachutes and Ladders X: Celebrating Student Engagement Save the Date for Spring 2011
- FIN Conference Celebration March 4-5, 2011
- FIN goes to Student Success 2010
- Exploring Routines for Instruction
- Train-the-trainer: Industry2Classroom Teacher Preperation Pipeline
- Why the Strengthening Student Success Conference Leads from Inquiry to Action
- Student Run Conference Supported by FIN
- FIN Team Regional Meet-Ups
- The Case for Acceleration in Developmental English and Math
- The Space In Between– What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Tag Archives: Faculty Inquiry Groups (FIG)
Creating Windows on Learning
A Carnegie Perspectives repost By Molly Breen Every year hundreds of thousands of students begin their higher education in community colleges. Of course, these institutions also bring in large numbers of new faculty. For both groups, students and faculty alike, … Continue reading
FIGs: The Importance of Collaboration
Faculty Inquiry Groups (FIGs) treat professional development as a collaborative enterprise. One of the most persistent impediments to educational improvement is that teachers have-because institutions provide-so few purposeful, constructive occasions for sharing what they know and do with one another. … Continue reading
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Faculty Inquiry Groups
Yu-Chung Chang (Pasadena), “No Longer Lost in Translation: How Yu-Chung Helps Her Students Understand (and Love) Word Problems” Yu-Chung says: I started a faculty Inquiry Group (FIG) to investigate why so many math faculty find Intermediate Algebra onerous to teach. … Continue reading