[highlight]Deadline for the Spring 2018 cohort: October 27, 2017 [/highlight]

All untenured, full-time faculty are invited to apply to be teaching fellows. Applicants should be actively interested in developing as teachers and investigating teaching and learning in their own classrooms. They also need to be flexible with their schedules as they will occasionally meet on non-teaching days. Priority will be given to faculty who are newer to community college teaching. For more information, see Apply to Be a Teaching Fellow.

Being a master teacher provides faculty members with tenure or CCE an opportunity to expand their role as pedagogical leaders at BMCC. The primary work of the master teacher is to facilitate and participate in group interactions about teaching and learning–listening actively and asking questions that promote reflection. Master teachers need to be flexible in their schedule as they will occasionally meet with their groups on a non-teaching day. For more information, see Apply to Be a Master Teacher.

The Teaching Academy is a non-judgemental forum for thinking about and experimenting with your teaching. Department chairs are not informed of the specifics of your participation unless you choose to share such details. Teaching Academy directors and master teachers do not discuss the specifics of your participation outside of the Teaching Academy.

We will make an effort to accommodate instructors who teach Friday afternoons, weekday evenings, and weekends, contingent on finding available master teachers. Note that all Teaching Academy participants must be available for orientations and wrap-up events (daytimes, approximately twice per semester).