Center for Teaching and Learning
Focused Inquiry Groups (FIGs)
A persistent impediment to educational improvement is that faculty have few
purposeful, constructive opportunities to discuss and exchange the knowledge and
experience they have gained in their classrooms and to build upon this knowledge
by jointly exploring and testing innovative practices. Chabot College's
Focused Inquiry Groups (FIGs) provide the collaborative enterprise needed to
bring the knowledge of our faculty and staff together with the desire to seek
and evaluate solutions to our students' learning needs. For more
information on FIGs, please see
this report by the Carnegie Foundation.
What FIGs do*:
- Create communities in which educators can share what happens in
classrooms.
- Articulate, negotiate, and enact the most important outcomes for student
learning.
- Classroom research to better understand the needs and experiences of
students.
- Share insights and findings.
- Examine a wide range of evidence that describes patterns of student
performance.
- Collaborate in the design of curricula, assignments, student programs,
and assessments.
- Support professional development among educators.
*Adapted from "Windows on Learning: Faculty Inquiry".
Title III FIGs
- Critical Thinking
- Student Learning Outcomes in Art
- Student Learning Outcomes in Business
- Student Learning Outcomes in Athletics
- Global & Cultural Involvement
- Group Counseling for Returning Students
- Jumpstart
- Basic Skills for CTE Students
- Learning Assistants
Basic Skills Initiative Funded Projects
Fall 2008 - Spring 2009
- Chemistry: Lab Activity/Study Methods
- Early Decision Program Expansion
- ESL SLO Assessments for Adjunct Faculty
- English: Innovative Grading Methods
- Reading Apprenticeship (multi-disciplinary)
- Math: Online Learning Support for Math 65
- Math: Use of Diagnostic Software
- Math: Sharing Instructional Methods
- Math/Science: Integrated Evening Lab
- Social Science: Adapt WRAC course for Social Science courses
- Social Science: New Pedagogical Approaches
- Geography: Supplemental instruction
- History: Supplemental instruction
Fall 2009
- ESL Grammar Pedagogy
- ESL Program/Curriculum Development
- Social Sciences: Adapt WRAC course for Social Science courses
- Geography: Supplemental instruction
- Math: Faculty training for Math 54L
- Math: Aleks Diagnostic Software
- Reading Apprenticeship (multi-disciplinary)
- History: Supplemental instruction
- Reading Apprenticeship (multi-disciplinary)
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