This course is for community colleges and 4-year college professionals seeking to learn and/or incorporate the critical teaching knowledge, skills and modalities needed to succeed in the changing climate of higher education. The goal of this courses is to enhance exposure to learner-centered teaching, culturally-responsive instruction, alignment in assessment, and the use of the action research cycle to meet the varied learning needs of the new majority of students.

This 4 week course will examine the art of culturally responsive teaching and the use of varied pedagogical strategies, best practices, action research, and implementation of these practices in the classroom.  Students will explore the components involved in engaging diverse college learners, managing behaviors, reaching students with motivation strategies, ensuring adherence to policies, and designing courses using innovative practices and technologies.

Participants will acquire the foundational skills to begin to:

• Demonstrate the use of learning science principles and beginning application to the diverse needs of college learners in the college environment.
• Recognize and begin to seek evidenced-based strategies and approaches to engage diverse college learners using a learner centered approach. 
• Identify and ascribe to best practices, effective pedagogical strategies, meaningful application of technology, and action research in curriculum and course development
• Identify when evaluation and assessment of learning is in alignment with course outcomes.
• Identify the need for self-reflective behaviors to determine the effectiveness of the teaching and learning experience. 

Class will meet weekly in a live on line synchronous environment to support the building of community for learning, discussions and engagement. Lectures will be recorded with closed caption and available for the participants to view asynchronously for the duration of the course. Resource readings and supplemental media will be available for participants interested in exploring concepts and content in more depth.