Transforming an Entire Department- The Problems

Problem #1

The Arts and Science’s Department is staffed almost entirely with adjunct professors. Many are fully committed to their courses, but are stretched with other teaching commitments.

Problem #2

I am teaching 5 courses this term. This means I do not have the time commitment to follow through on training the adjuncts in team learning approaches, so I am guessing many have fallen back into their old habits.

Problem #3

I encouraged each adjunct to explore a different team learning technique- team based learning collaborative, service learning, game-based, problem- based…

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