Learning Community: Any one of a variety of curricular structures that link together several existing courses—or actually restructure the material entirely—so that students have opportunities for deeper understanding and integration of the material they are learning, and more interaction with one another and their teachers as fellow participants in the learning enterprise.
Gabelnick, MacGregor, Matthews, and Smith (qtd. in Karen Spear’s “Liberal Education: by Proclamation or Design?”)
Learning Communities are intentionally designed structures that encourage students to integrate what they are learning in their various studies, disciplines, and experiences, and also to connect to each other through ongoing co-curricular interaction. Learning Communities at Benedictine can take different forms but should include all of the following:
There are generally three basic models of learning communities that are offered at Benedictine University:
Goals Chart for the Syllabus
Create a chart that maps the goals and place it in your syllabus.
| Goals | Activities and Assessments |
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| 1 Critical Thinking and Problem Solving d. Work cooperatively as a member of a team |
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| 5 Social Responsibility b. Understand conflict resolution processes |
