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Teaching and Learning Committee

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Committee Charge

MPC’s Teaching and Learning Committee is a college-wide operational committee, which promotes culturally responsive, innovative teaching, counseling, and academic support opportunities focused on academic quality, continuous improvement, and equity; provides guidance to instructors, departments, and programs on outcomes assessment; and makes recommendations for professional development opportunities to enhance teaching and learning. As this group engages in discussion, develops recommendations, and offers ideas for professional development, committee members respect and adhere to the tenets of Academic Freedom.

In discussing innovative teaching, counseling, and academic support; assessment practices; and professional development needs, the Teaching and Learning Committee commits to understanding the needs, ensuring representation, reviewing the appropriate data, and working to eliminate barriers and improve instruction, counseling, and academic support for all students, with focus on racially minoritized, underserved, and disproportionately impacted student populations.

Committee Activities

  • Collaborate across disciplines and service areas to create innovative teaching opportunities that intersect with Guided Pathways Essential Practices 4B, 4C, and 4F*
  • Engage in sustained, substantive and collegial dialog about student equity, academic quality, and continuous improvement of student learning and achievement, including but not limited to investigating and developing best practices to support the following:
    • Equitable, culturally responsive, inclusive, and anti bias instruction, counseling and academic support that is against racism, sexism, classism, ageism, ableism, audism, transphobia, interphobia, biphobia, homophobia, religious discrimination, cultural discrimination, and all forms of discrimination.
    • Meeting the instructional needs of MPC’s diverse student population
    • Career embedded counseling and instruction
    • Strategies for student engagement
    • Connecting students to academic counseling, academic support, and campus resources
  • Share and celebrate instructional programs, professional development, student successes, grant-related activities, and innovative teaching and learning practices with the larger campus community
  • Discuss course and program-level assessment practices, successes, and challenges; develop, review, and revise resources to aid in the completion of course and program assessments as needed.
  • Coordinate with OAA, PRIE, OEC, and CAC on campus-wide assessment efforts**
  • Annually review course and program assessment data to inform committee conversations about student learning and student achievement
  • Broadly communicate the results of course and program assessment activities so that the institution has a shared understanding of its strengths and weaknesses and sets appropriate priorities
    • “Assessment Activities” may include a review of assessment data, as well as any professional development and processes that support assessment completion at the course and program level. "Activities" may also include sharing effective strategies and resources for completing course or program assessments.
  • Seek input from faculty about professional development needs and ideas in the areas of instruction, counseling, and academic support; make recommendations for faculty professional development to Professional Development Program Coordinator and Flex Committee as appropriate
  • Use results of course and program assessment to make recommendations to the Professional Development Program Coordinator and/or Flex Committee about campus-wide events and/or offering optional support for programs and individual instructors in completing the assessment process
  • Participate in the accreditation process as appropriate and within the purview of this committee

*4B: Instruction across programs (especially in program introductory courses) engages students in active and applied learning, encouraging them to think critically, solve meaningful problems, and work and communicate effectively with others. 4C: Students have ample opportunity to apply and deepen knowledge and skills through projects, internships, co-ops, clinical placements, group projects outside of class, service learning, study abroad and other experiential learning activities that program faculty intentionally embed into coursework.

4F: The college helps students document their learning for employers and universities through portfolios and other means beyond transcripts.

**The Teaching and Learning Committee acknowledges that course and program assessment is an institutional responsibility requiring coordination with the following areas with the following responsibilities:

Office of Academic Affairs:

  • Tracks participation in assessment process; ensures observance of established assessment cycles

PRIE Office:

  • Collects assessment data
  • Ensures integration of assessment results into planning and resource allocation processes

Curriculum Advisory Committee:

  • Reviews course and program SLOs submitted during the curriculum development/review process to ensure quality according to guidelines developed by the committee

 

 

Membership

  • Faculty Rep: Access Resource Center/Learning Skills
  • Faculty Rep: Career Education
  • Faculty Rep: Creative Arts
  • Faculty Rep: Counseling
  • Faculty Rep: Humanities
  • Faculty Rep: Kinesiology
  • Faculty Rep: Library and Learning Centers
  • Faculty Rep: Life Science & Nursing
  • Faculty Rep: Physical Science
  • Faculty Rep: Social Science
  • Dean of Instruction or Student Services
  • Classified Representative
  • Student Representative

Non-Member Resources

  • VP of Academic Affairs
  • VP of Student Services
  • Marketing Director
  • Dean of PRIE
  • IT Director
  • Online Education Committee Chair/s
  • Facilities Representative
  • Professional Development Program Coordinator
  • GP Faculty Coordinator
  • SOAR Director
  • Academic Senate President or designee

The Teaching and Learning Committee meets the first and third Friday of each month during the fall and spring semesters, from 1-2:30pm, currently  via Zoom. The Committee does not meet during the summer.

Additional information, including meeting agendas,  current membership appointments,  and course assessment schedules by division, can be found on the MPC TLC intranet site (login required).