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Mitigating Learning Loss Initative

Faculty interested in applying for the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Learning Challenge Grants should use the application below.  Be sure to submit your completed application to the CTL: ctl@sinclair.edu

CTL: Factuly Learning Challenge Grant Application

The Center for Teaching and Learning at Sinclair Community College is proud to support faculty interested in participating in the Mitigating Learning Loss Initiative.  There are many great resources available. 

What is Learning Loss?

According to the Lumina Foundation and as cited in Donnelly et al., 2021, Learning Loss refers to the deterioration of knowledge, skills, and competencies, often because of an extended length of time away from or gap in education.  Some of the most evident examples of learning loss in recent years look at how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted student learning. Students’ schedules were disrupted, and they faced gaps in access and continuity to education. Additional types of learning loss can also include unfinished learning, where benchmarks were abruptly changed.

Additional Learning Loss and Psychological Measurement Resources

Pandemic Learning Loss and COVID-19: Education Impacts

Why Mental Health is  the Key to Dealing with Learning Loss

Learning Loss and Learning Recovery

Psychosocial Pathways

FFPDD Resources

If you want to review the presentation given to us by a member of the ADHAHS, Taneah Matthews, during the Fall Faculty Professional Development Day, click here to access the presentation:

Teaching and Learning Resources

Below are some resources to assist faculty with policy, procedure, teaching, and learning topics.

    • Peer Review Observation Form (updated 2024): Use this form when completing a peer review of another faculty. 
    • A Guide for Staff and Faculty: Responding to Student Behavior Concerns: Designed to provide guidance to staff and faculty who may encounter disconcerting student behavior, this guide will help you recognize and effectively respond to a range of behaviors. Available via Student Conduct.
    • Student Affairs Referral Sheets - Use this form to refer students to Career Services, Accessibility Services, Student Support Services, Student Leadership Development, Judicial Affairs, Tutorial Services, Veteran Services, Counseling Services, Pathways to Completion, Ombudsman, Minority Student Success, Tartan TOPS, Sinclair Talks, and/or Campus Ministry. Visit Website.
    • Academic Integrity Policy: This policy addresses willful acts of cheating, dishonesty, and plagiarism and establishes common procedures to be followed when such acts occur. The intent of the policy is to improve students' understanding of academic integrity while affirming the concepts and philosophies established in the Sinclair Community College Honor Code. More information available via Judicial Affairs. For a copy of slides from Fall Professional Development Day 2023 email ctl@sinclair.edu.
    • Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA): This policy requires institutions to adopt policies and procedures which (1) grant students access to their individual educational records; (2) establish procedures for students to challenge records believed to be inaccurate and (3) prevent the release of educational records, except directory information, to third parties without written consent from the student. More information available from RSR.
    • Ethics: Ethics is an important part of being a professional faculty member. It is important to review the faculty handbook and your disciplinary code of ethics. The American Association of University Professors has a good website to review. Click here for more information.

     

     

    Service Learning Opportunities

    Sinclair Library

    The Sinclair Library collaborates with faculty and supports teaching and learning in several important ways. A librarian is assigned to each department to purchase or license needed materials for the collection, design web-based research guides for a particular program or class, and provide research instruction that aligns with the core competencies of information literacy and critical thinking. Librarians can also assist faculty with identifying and locating learning materials, using citation management software, navigating copyright and intellectual property issues, and integrating library resources into Angel. The library provides course reserves, a collection of books and supplemental readings supplied by faculty for students to use in the library for limited periods of time. The Sinclair librarians look forward to working with you in any way to help your students succeed. Faculty resources on teaching and learning.

    These organizations support faculty development and have good resources: