A Toolkit for 21st Century Teaching and Learning

A Toolkit for 21st Century Teaching and Learning is a product dissertation developed
through an iterative process that involved combining scholarly inquiry with two decades of
teaching experience. This study identified the role of the faculty-student relationship in
developing a student’s sense of competent membership in the institution, the need for relevant
learning outcomes to be contextualized to student fields of study, and the need for
instructional materials to support faculty work. The resulting product is an e-book that is both a
primer to acquaint community college instructors with the challenges being brought to bear on
today’s learners and the competencies required to face them, as well as a collection of
materials designed to engage students in achieving these needed competencies. The toolkit
presents a learner-centered approach and a representative sampling of activities and
assignments that can be contextualized to a variety of disciplines and learning situations.