A cross-institutional faculty online learning community: Community-guided faculty development in teaching college geometry for teachers

Tuyin An; Inese Berzina-Pitcher; Victoria Bigelow; Amanda Brown; Orly Buchbinder; Patricio Herbst; Carolyn Hetrick; Nathaniel Miller; Priya V. Prasad; Laura J. Pyzdrowski; Julia St Goar; Ruthmae Sears; Steve Szydlik; Sharon Vestal

A cross-institutional faculty online learning community: Community-guided faculty development in teaching college geometry for teachers

Tuyin An
, Inese Berzina-Pitcher
, Victoria Bigelow
, Amanda Brown
, Orly Buchbinder
, Patricio Herbst
, Carolyn Hetrick
, Nathaniel Miller
, Priya V. Prasad
, Laura J. Pyzdrowski
, Julia St Goar
, Ruthmae Sears
, Steve Szydlik
, Sharon Vestal

Mathematical Sciences

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This chapter describes a faculty online learning community (FOLC) that emerged around common interests regarding the preparation of prospective secondary teachers of mathematics (PST-M). This community, called GeT: A Pencil, focuses on “Geometry for Teachers” (GeT) courses—university-level geometry courses required for PST-M. Systemic factors underlie challenges to improving GeT courses. Drawing on research about faculty learning communities and networked improvement science, we illustrate how GeT: A Pencil exemplifies a cross-institutional FOLC working incrementally toward systemic change. We further suggest how principles of networked improvement can support faculty development as part of systems-oriented improvement in undergraduate STEM education.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	The handbook of STEM faculty development
Editors	S. M. Linder, C. Lee, K. High
Publisher	Information Age
Pages	325-336
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	979-8-88730-047-4
ISBN (Print)	979-8-88730-045-0, 979-8-88730-046-7
State	Published - 2023

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An, T., Berzina-Pitcher, I., Bigelow, V., Brown, A., Buchbinder, O., Herbst, P., Hetrick, C., Miller, N., Prasad, P. V., Pyzdrowski, L. J., Goar, J. S., Sears, R., Szydlik, S., & Vestal, S. (2023). A cross-institutional faculty online learning community: Community-guided faculty development in teaching college geometry for teachers. In S. M. Linder, C. Lee, & K. High (Eds.), The handbook of STEM faculty development (pp. 325-336). Information Age.

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