A Mathematics Faculty Learning Community to Improve Student Learning Outcomes

One of the sessions that I attended at the Lilly Conference in Greensboro dealt with faculty designing a model to redesign selected freshman-level "gateway" courses in order to improve student learning and retention. The learning community was comprised of faculty from mathematics, chemistry as well as the teaching and learning center at NC A&T. The redesign not only involved a common syllabus, but also how to more actively engage the student in the learning process. Ideas concerning supplemental instruction and math workshops to replace graded homework were discussed. Dr. Dominic Clemence will be doing a Brown Bag Lecture on the concept this year.