Integrative Learning Field Guide for Faculty
The Montgomery College Integrative Learning Field Guide for faculty is a resource site designed to support the advancement of integrative learning throughout the College. Integrative learning as an explicit activity is central to the new General Education model and the revised General Studies Degree program, but it is found in programs and courses throughout the College. This resource guide has been developed by an interdisciplinary group of faculty, and provides background and pedagogical resources including examples designed to stimulate integrative learning as an intellectual practice on a day to day basis as well as larger projects and assignments that provide a more comprehensive, sophisticated applications. This guide is licensed under the Creative Commons license.
Why Integrative Learning?
Integrative learning supports student success by enhancing cognitive and metacognitive skills, engagement, and motivation. Integrative Learning fosters life long learning skills, and emphasizes student centered applied learning. Consider Annie McGrail's, of Lane Community College, discussion (to the right) of how to help students become master learners.
Consider Margart Miller's discussions in about engagement and motivation, mattering to students and knowing and doing: Margaret Miller (2014) Engagement and Motivation Margaret Miller 2014) Mattering to Students Margaret Miller (2015) Knowing and doing All in Change, The Magazine of Higher Education. |
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Field Guide ResourcesThis Field Guide is designed to provide examples and ideas to advance Integrative Learning at Montgomery College.
Table Of ContentsProfessional Development Opportunities for Integrative Learning
Integrative Learning Assignment ConFab- Summer 2021 Integrative Learning Pathway offered by ELITE Want a tailored experience for your department or a group of colleagues? Contact Angela Lanier. |
Integrative Learning, a definition"Integrative learning is an understanding and a disposition that a student builds across the curriculum and co-curriculum, from making simple connections among ideas and experiences to synthesizing and transferring learning to new, complex situations within and beyond the campus" (American Association of Colleges and University, VALUE Rubric for Integrative Learning, 2015).
The characteristics of Integrative Learning include
Connected to Experience
Connected to Disciplines Transferable and Applied Integrated Communication Reflective |
The Integrative Learning Field Guide is a joint project among the General Studies Degree Program, the General Education Program and The Integrative Studies and High Impact Practices Committee.
For more information, feedback, questions. to share your own examples, or for additional professional development opportunities, please contact us.
For more information, feedback, questions. to share your own examples, or for additional professional development opportunities, please contact us.