City Colleges Academic Affairs is proud to offer Instructional Fundamentals: Reflective Practice, a self-paced, asynchronous short course intended to support faculty instructional development in line with Pillar 2 of the Academic Excellence Framework (ccc.edu/aef). Instructional Fundamentals: Reflective Practice challenges faculty to examine how they practice continuous improvement and equips them with ways to evaluate student learning and their own teaching.
Objectives:
Participants will use multiple sources of feedback to plan for improvements to their instruction
Participants will set goals to stay current and grow in their fields, especially in relation to content expertise and instructional methods
Participants will collaborate to review each other’s approaches and lay groundwork for sustaining reflection and continuous improvement
Examples of reflections & artifacts you’ll work on:
Practice and share new tools for evaluating student work
Review and revise instructions for an assignment
Establish reflective practices for yourself
Schedule: The short course is self paced and will be available throughout the Fall 2025 semester. Participants should plan to dedicate 4-6 hours total to take part in the short course.
The Academic Excellence Framework (AEF) clearly prioritizes the skills, activities, initiatives, roles, and goals that directly support consistently strong teaching and learning at City Colleges of Chicago.
