The Community Plan Sample Community Plan Courses in a learning community are intentionally grouped, with the goal of connecting the content of individual courses and making it more comprehensible and meaningful to students. For instance, when English 40 or C050 is linked with Sociology C050, readings and papers in the English course can shed light on the work in the sociology class, while the sociology teacher can make use of a variety of approaches in which writing supports the learning of content. To make this happen, teachers in the two classes collaborate as they prepare both their individual syllabi and community plans. The collaboration should apply both to curriculum and to pedagogy.
Teachers ought to keep in touch about student problems such as attendance and incomplete work.
If these carry over from one class into the other, teachers can make a concerted effort to correct these bad habits. Pedagogical collaboration should also mean an effort to keep heavy assignments from falling due on the same day. A joint effort at tracking student learning gains could be very rewarding. Once the term begins, we are all constrained by other responsibilities. So it is worthwhile to set things up before Labor Day.