Faculty Resources

Teaching & Learning Center

The Black Hawk College Teaching & Learning Center (TLC) serves approximately 100 full-time faculty and up to 350 adjunct and part-time faculty in 10 academic departments and an Outreach division. Our diverse faculty teach on several campuses and locations throughout the district as well as online.

Mission

The Teaching & Learning Center supports student learning through programs, services and resources that address the professional development and instructional support needs of full and part-time faculty at Black Hawk College.

Goals

The TLC’s goals are to provide a learning culture that:

• Focuses on instructional strategies that promote learning in all students and contribute to the development of dynamic educational programs.
• Assists faculty in integrating innovative uses of technology into the many teaching and learning modes employed at the College.
• Facilitates collaboration with college support staff and external partners to design strong systems that support student success.
• Encourages reflective dialogue among faculty about their own teaching and learning insights, experience, and resources.

In all cases, the TLC integrates its activities, services and priorities with the Strategic Plan of Black Hawk College and guidance from the Faculty Senate’s Teaching & Learning Advisory Committee.

More about the TLC

Faculty members can access more information about the Teaching and Learning Center, its services, events, tutorials and other resources by viewing the TLC module in Canvas.

TLC Module on Canvas

Library Resources for Faculty

Borrowing Privileges

Faculty members are entitled to semester-long loan periods.

Course Reserves

Faculty members are invited to place books, chapters, articles and other materials on Reserve. There are five loan periods available: two-hour in-library use only, 24-hour overnight, two-day, three-day and seven-day.

Please allow at least three (3) days for library staff to process the materials before directing students to borrow Reserve materials.

Students must present a photo ID card to borrow Reserve materials

Information Literacy

Information literacy is the ability to locate information, evaluate it, and use it effectively. Working with faculty members, librarians introduce students to skills needed to become independent lifelong information consumers.

Schedule a Class Session

BHC faculty members may schedule a library instruction session for students who have assignments that require research.

Library sessions are most effective when scheduled after the research assignment has been introduced to students and after students have had time to develop initial research topics so that they can use those topics during the session.

If you would like to schedule library research time for your class without a librarian present, please contact the Reference Desk at 309-796-5147 or LibraryRef@trioptafrica.com.

Any faculty member who wishes to learn more about how information skills can be integrated with a particular course or program is encouraged to contact a BHC librarian.