Evidence-based Teaching with Generative AI Fellowship
Exploring Evidence-based Practices to Support Using Generative AI
Lumen Circle’s Evidence-based Teaching with Generative AI fellowship explores how to use evidence-based teaching practices to discover the transformative power of using AI. Throughout the fellowship, educators will learn how AI tools can help them personalize learning, enhance engagement, and provide students with valuable feedback, all while learning about and following evidence-based teaching practices.
Benefits of Using AI in Teaching
- AI-powered tools can help personalize learning and engagement for students.
- AI has the potential to transform the teaching and learning experience, making it more effective and engaging for both students and instructors.
- AI can be used to create interactive and engaging learning experiences that keep students motivated and interested in the material.
Expected Outcomes of Evidence-based Teaching with Generative AI Fellowship
Master the fundamentals of EBTPs and practices that can increase students’ sense of belonging.
Explore how AI tools can personalize learning, enhance engagement, and give students valuable feedback.
Learn how to seamlessly integrate generative AI into your existing curriculum to create effective learning experiences.
Engage in peer feedback and reflection sessions to improve your teaching practice and track your progress.
Brief Overview of the Fellowship Curriculum
Learn about Lumen Circles cadence and weekly activities: Begin to explore Evidence-based Teaching Practices and why they are important for student success. Practice using Appreciative Inquiry, a strength-based approach to how the Circle communicates and works together.
Introduction to Generative AI: Delve into what Generative AI actually is, what AI programs exist and how to use effective prompts that result in relevant and usable content. Examine the pros and cons of AI use.
Using Supportive and Varied Teaching Practices with Generative AI: Use the Supportive and Varied EBTP tags to help plan to embed Generative AI into what you are already teaching this coming week. Get and receive feedback and suggestions about your plan from the other fellows in your Circle.
Reflecting on Using Supportive and Varied Teaching Practices with Generative AI: Reflect on how your plan to embed Generative AI went and the EBTP you used to do so. How did it go? What would you do differently? How do you know how students did? Give and get feedback and suggestions from your fellow Circle mates to improve your plan for the next time you teach this content.
Creating a Sense of Belonging with Generative AI:Review how AI can be used to create a sense of Belonging. Plan to use Generative AI using the Belonging EBTPs as a guide in something you already teach. Give and get feedback from your Circle fellows to improve your plan.
Reflecting on Creating a Sense of Belonging with Generative AI: Reflect on how your plan to incorporate Belonging using Generative AI went, what students learned, and what you learned about your teaching with Generative AI. Give and get feedback from the other fellows in your Circle to improve what you did for the next time you teach the same content.
Using Challenges and Organized Teaching Practices with Generative AI: Review how the Challenging and Organized EBTPs can support using Generative AI to increase student learning. Create a plan to embed Generative AI use into a learning activity you will teach over the coming week. Incorporate the EBTPs that help you teach and use Generative AI in your class. Give and get feedback from your Circle fellows to improve your plan. Don’t forget to concentrate on how you will assess student learning.
Reflecting on Using Organized and Challenging Teaching Practices with Generative AI: Reflect on how your plan to incorporate Generative AI using specific Organized and Challenging EBTPs to guide your teaching went. What did students learn? What did you discover about your teaching? Give and get feedback from the other fellows in your Circle to improve what you did for the next time you do it.
Wrapping Up: Wrap up your fellowship with a meta-reflection on what you learned and what you still have questions about. Develop the next steps to continue your Generative AI and Evidence-based Teaching Practice teaching journey. Give and get feedback from your fellow Circle mates, and celebrate how you worked together to improve your Circle’s teaching.
Appropriate For:
Non-Teaching Faculty
Teaching Faculty
Instructional Designers
What are Lumen Circles?
Lumen Circles are professional development experiences that use virtual learning communities to connect faculty members with peers and help them hone their expertise as student-centered teachers.
Grounded in evidence-based teaching practices and self-reflection, Lumen Circles work well for any faculty member, in any discipline, and at any stage of career.
How Do Lumen Circles Work?
Set goals. Identify how you want to develop your teaching practice and pedagogical profile.
Build skills. Virtual, workshop-style learning opportunities expand your teaching repertory, help you work smarter through teaching “hacks,” and deepen your understanding of evidence-based practices.
Teach and reflect. Apply what you’re learning, consider how it’s working for your students and where to improve.
Share via virtual learning circles. Connect with peers, exchange feedback, and collect new ideas through expertly-facilitated learning circles. Our user-friendly platform makes it simple to connect and collaborate.
Recognize growth and progress. Track progress towards goals and see your teaching evolve as you incorporate new practices with students.
Pick the Offering that Works for You
We offer Lumen Circles experiences with different areas of focus, levels of depth, and duration.
- Lumen Circle Fellowships: Build skills in targeted areas, apply what you’re learning, and collaborate within a virtual learning circle
- Success Accelerator: Engage with peers and accelerate the path to effective teaching and learning using Lumen courseware
Learn more about which fellowship suits you in a Lumen Circles: What to Expect Webinar.
What’s Your Role
Your connection with students is paramount to their success, but knowing how to reach them can be challenging. Lumen Circles provide opportunities to expand your teaching repertory in areas you want to grow. You can join colleagues to learn, share ideas, compare experiences, and be part of a thriving community focused on evidence-based teaching for today’s students.
Lumen Circles complement your center’s resources and priorities. Some centers offer a full menu of programs but struggle to generate meaningful evaluation data. Others cater to new faculty, but they sometimes overlook faculty who are later in their careers. Still others struggle to meet the needs of part-time faculty or graduate students. We can tailor offerings to fit the faculty members you want to reach with skill-building and professional growth focused on teaching practices that impact student success. We also offer flexible options around pricing and scale.
Recognizing student success is a result of faculty success, Lumen Circles can help you provide a broader foundation of faculty support to transform teaching and learning with a focus on evidence-based instructional practices. We can also help you track alignment and measure progress towards institutional and faculty goals for improving teaching practice.
Lumen Circles FAQs
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Lumen Circles’ evidence-based teaching framework uses a methodology and process originally adapted from research published in Taking College Teaching Seriously: Pedagogy Matters by Gail Mellow, Diana Woolis, Marisa Klages-Bombich and Susan Restler. In work funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Lumen expanded the framework to add a “Belonging” theme that fully incorporates practices associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion into the Lumen Circles model. The framework identifies practices that increase student success, according to research evidence. Lumen Circles’ methodology guides faculty members through a process to recognize, explore and apply these effective practices in their teaching. It helps them become more aware and purposeful about making pedagogical choices that support student success.
Primary principles include:
- Self-reflection: Faculty fellows examine their own teaching practices to become more aware of pedagogical choices and their impact on student success.
- Appreciative Inquiry: This inquiry method invites educators to recognize and celebrate their strengths and what’s working in their teaching practice, and then using this as a foundation for self-directed growth and improvement.
- Evidence-based Instructional Principles: To help faculty make the learning environment more student-centered, we encourage them to explore and try out specific practices aligned in four distinct dimensions of teaching practice: Supportive, Challenging, Organized, and Varied.
- Pedagogical Analytics: As fellows progress through the Lumen Circles experience, we measure changes in faculty teaching patterns, progress towards their teaching goals, and how this aligns with institutional goals and changes in student outcomes.
We construct virtual learning circles with careful attention to the goals and context of faculty members participating in Lumen Circles fellowships. Learning circles always align with the theme of the fellowship to connect faculty with peers working to expand their teaching practice in similar directions. As a rule, learning circles include faculty from multiple institutions teaching in related disciplines, such as STEM or social sciences. We may make exceptions to this rule in order to support specific institutional objectives, such as learning circles to connect faculty with peers from their own institution.
We coordinate start and end dates for Lumen Circles fellowships and other professional development programs to align with the academic calendar and windows when the experience will be most productive for participating faculty members. Staggered start dates generally coincide with the start of term for spring (winter), summer, and fall. Depending on interest, faculty availability, and demand, we can add additional fellowship terms as needed.
Note the Lumen Circles experience does require that faculty are actively teaching during a majority of their fellowship term because reflective practice is most beneficial when there are immediate opportunities to consider teaching choices, evaluate what’s working and try out new pedagogical directions.