Teagle Collegium on Student Learning
ACM has formed a Collegium that seeks to deepen faculty members’ understanding of how students learn, and more specifically, of how students acquire the skills and knowledge that are the hallmarks of a liberal education: critical thinking and analysis, integration across disciplines, reflection about the goals of education, and development of expertise through focused research with faculty. Recent research on metacognition serves as a focal point for the Collegium.
The Teagle Foundation has provided generous support for the Collegium project through a $150,000 grant.
The Collegium project has four phases:
Metacognition on the Teagle Liblog
In November 2009 posts to the Liblog, the Teagle Foundation's liberal arts blog, three members of the ACM community provided an inside look at some of the exciting developments that are coming out of the work of the Collegium and on ACM campuses.
- "The evidence is mounting that teaching students how to think about their thinking can transform our teaching and student learning," according to Karl Wirth, Associate Professor of Geology at Macalester College. In his post, Toward a Metacurriculum on Metacognition, Wirth outlines some of the ways he has designed more metacognition into his courses.
- Consortial collaboration has led to a powerful way of building community for new students at Lake Forest College, writes Rachel Ragland in Metacognition in First Year Studies. An Assistant Professor of Education, Ragland describes how the ACM-Teagle Collegium's work on metacognition is being directly applied on her campus, and is getting a thumbs up from students.
- In Working Together, ACM Vice President John Ottenhoff reflects on the hard work – as well as the need for "play" time – that goes into successful collaborations, and the payoffs that make it worthwhile.
For more information
For more information about the ACM-Teagle Collegium on Student Learning, please contact ACM Vice President John Ottenhoff (312-263-5000).