Faculty Involvement
What Badge is Right for Me?
The Skills Advantage cohorts and workshops help faculty develop assignments that will count towards students earning the 10 FGCU Transferable Skill Badges. Faculty are the crucial connectors to link students to badges. Our faculty programs are designed to help you embed a badge-able assignment into one of your courses. You are the ones who will be impacting our students!
Below are more ways to get involved and start enhancing your current assignments to make them badge-able:
The Skills Advantage Faculty Cohort
For full time faculty in any program who are creating a new badge-able assignment for a course.
Deep dive into transferable skills, skills and career, skill pedagogy best practices for badging, FGCU badge program, and badge assessment.
Commitment:
- Cohort session every other week for a semester
- Homework including assignment drafts and peer review
- Follow up in the semester the assignment is implemented
- Compensated
- Offered Fall & Spring semester
- Click here to indicate your interest in a future cohort.
PAGES Faculty Cohort
For full time faculty creating a new badge able assignment for a course from the Humanities & Social Sciences (English, Philosophy, Communication, Journalism, Art, Theatre, Music (BA), History, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Political Science, or Integrated Studies).
Includes the same badging content & activities as the Skills Advantage Cohort
Plus content on career education for liberal arts students:
- Career paths & career data for liberal arts students
- Book group - on career education
- Career activities & assignments for your classroom & department
- Commitment Cohort meets for two semester Fall & Spring - session every other week
- Homework: assignment drafts, reading, career research
- Compensated
- Watch for an email from Dr. Whitehouse in Spring to apply to the Fall/Spring cohort
Badging Assignment Self-Training Course
Want to get started right away? This self-guided training gives you the information you need to embed a badge-able assignment in your course.
- Skills pedagogy, skills and careers, best practices for badge assignments
- Badge requirements, badge process, materials for your students
- If you are embedding a badge-able assignment in your course, you need to either complete this CANVAS course or participate in the Skills Advantage or PAGES cohorts
- To be invited to the course, please send an email to Dr. Glenn Whitehouse or Patricia Rice.
BadgeIt! Workshops
For faculty who are modifying an existing assignment to make it badge-able
Commitment:
- Complete badging CANVAS course
- Submit draft of assignment before workshop, and read peer assignments
- One workshop session: Edit assignments to make them badge-ready
- Spring 2025: Feb 13, 2025 - The Lucas Center - 12:00 PM
- Click here for more information and to indicate interest in a workshop.
Watch for new faculty program announcements - we're planning to add to our faculty offerings and opportunities!
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