Eleven Loyola Schools faculty join the Approaches to Learning with Technology (ALT) program, starting with a bootcamp last 15 January 2018 at the Ateneo Teacher Center.
The Ateneo SALT Institute’s program helps faculty learn about student-centered learning and different ways to use technology to achieve greater learning and engagement with students. It is composed of a bootcamp, one-on-one coaching with the faculty, classroom observations, and a research documenting the whole process.
The eleven faculty members come from different schools and departments: finance, leadership and strategy, theology, physics, chemistry, philosophy, and sociology and anthropology. They ended the bootcamp with ideas about where to use different platforms for their teaching.
The sessions were facilitated by the Ateneo SALT Institute’s core team. Fr. Johnny Go started the conversations with remarks about why this program came about. Rita Atienza talked about student-centered learning in the context of teachers’ course design and objectives. Galvin Ngo facilitated the bulk of the whole-day event with workshops on strategically using technology for teaching. Eos Trinidad talked about the action research component of the program.
This bootcamp is the first activity for the program, and it will be followed with the SALT trainers having coaching with the faculty members.