How Can You Benefit From Teaching In A Learning Community?  

• You will enjoy the collaboration and mentoring relationship with other faculty in your discipline as well as other disciplines

• You will enrich and expand your reper toire of teaching strategies and gain new scholarly interests

• You will gain the satisfaction of improved student outcomes: higher degrees retention, achievement, motivation, and intellectual development

Sample comments of LATTC LC faculty about their students and the advantages of teaching in a Learning Community:

“LC students are more enthusiastic, creative, involved and committed. They put a lot of effort into each essay and assignment and fully embrace the class discussions and class projects”

“Closer connection with their teachers peers and their courses, a greater sense of community, sharing of ideas and information, group cohesion and helpfulness”.

“Greater retention of students”

“Teaching across the curriculum”

“Collaboration with LC partner”

The Rationale for Learning Communities by Patrick Hill, Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education http://learningcommons.evergreen.edu/pdf/rationale.pdf