Faculty Reading Community

Overview

Open to all full time faculty, the Faculty Reading Community (FRC) is an opportunity to join Center for Teaching and Learning Educational Development staff for sustained cross-disciplinary conversation on critical topics in teaching and learning. Participants engage in pedagogical conversation revolving around a chapter or group of chapters from a recently published book on teaching and learning. Books are chosen for a combination of their practical advice, evidence-based strategies, and wide applicability to a variety of disciplines. When the FRC meets in person, the CTL provides refreshments and snacks. Advanced registration for this reading community is required and registration is limited each semester.

Fall 2024 Book

Registration for the Fall 2024 reading community is now open!

Join fellow faculty and CTL staff for sustained cross-disciplinary conversation on critical topics in teaching and learning.

The Faculty Reading Community discussions in Fall 2024 will involve chapters from Kevin Gannon’s book Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto. We are revisiting this popular 2020 book in order to facilitate conversations on the nature of teaching during the current social and political moment. Gannon argues that teaching is by definition emancipatory and hopeful. Taking this axiom as our starting point, how can maximize our positive impact on our students in the classroom?

Participants are required to attend 4 of 5 meetings. Faculty will receive a copy of the book courtesy of the CTL. Seats are limited.

Meeting Mode: This semester’s faculty reading community will meet in person on the Danforth campus (DUC 248). 

• Sept 19: Chapters 1-2 (Classrooms of Death; The Things We Tell Our Students)
• Oct 10: Chapters 3-4 (Cultivating Transformative Teaching; Teaching & Learning Inclusively)
• Oct 17: Chapters 5-6 (Making Access Mean Something; Encouraging Choice, Collaboration, and Agency)
• Oct 31: Chapters 7-8 (A Syllabus Worth Reading; Pedagogy Is Not A Weapon)
• Nov 21: Chapters 9-10 (Platforms and Power; I Don’t Know . . . Yet.)

The reading community will be co-facilitated by Rick Moore, along with faculty member Sabnam Ghosh.

For questions about the Faculty Reading Community, please contact Dr. Rick Moore at rick.moore@wustl.edu.

Books Used in Prior Semesters

• Spring 2024: Grading for Growth: A Guide to Alternative Grading Practices that Promote Authentic Learning and Student Engagement in Higher Education by David Clark and Robert Talbert
• Spring 2023: Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom by Kelly A. Hogan and Viji Sathy
• Fall 2022: Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College by Peter Felten and Leo M. Lambert
• July 2022: Promoting Inclusive Classroom Dynamics in Higher Education: A Research-Based Pedagogical Guide for Faculty by Kathryn C. Oleson
• Spring 2022: Connected Teaching: Relationship, Power, and Mattering in Higher Education by Harriot Schwartz
• Fall 2021: Small Teaching: Every Day Lessons from the Science of Learning (Second Edition) by James Lang
• August 2021: What Inclusive Instructors Do: Principles and Practices for Excellence in College Teaching by Addy et al.
• Spring 2021: Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It by James Lang
• Fall 2020: Intentional Tech: Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching by Derek Bruff
• Spring 2020:How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching by Josh Eyler
• Fall 2019: Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning by James Lang
• Spring 2019: Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter Brown, Henry Roediger, and Mark McDaniel

For more information on the Faculty Reading Community or to suggest a book, please contact the CTL at ctl@wustl.edu.