Fall 2024-Summer 2025

Highlights

RMP Colleges

We are excited to have Henry Ford College, Westshore Community College, and Jackson College patner with us.

Active Learning Summer Workshop

The Active Learning Summer Workshop was held on June 11-14 at Kellogg Community College. The workshop provided at least 18 hrs. of intensive instructional training centered on the following principles of active learning:

• Students’ deep engagement in mathematical thinking

• Instructors’ interest in and use of student thinking

• Student-to-student interaction

• Instructors’ attention to equitable and inclusive practices.

The training was well-received.

This was the most impactful workshop I've attended this year. It provided practical, research-based strategies to increase student active engagement to improve learning. As I continue to reflect, I feel more equipped to think about how I will redesign parts of my instruction to foster more collaboration, inquiry, and hands-on activities through more real-world applications, making our class lessons more

dynamic and meaningful.

The workshop was transformative. I am excited to incorporate active learning in all of

my classes when I can.

It is hard to put into words how impacted I feel by the workshop. It challenged

everything that I do - reasserted my belief that we can do better as educators and

gave me a lot of ideas and inspiration on how this can be done.

The workshop left me reflecting on applications for my classroom and gave me the

confidence to apply them in the fall. Your passion for teaching craft and student

success were motivating and contagious.

Great conference! Thank you so much!

Self-Efficacy Survey Instrument

In spring 2025 we also developed and piloted an online survey instrument (RMPSI) to access instructor self-efficacy level for active learning and its implementation in mathematics courses. Further tests for reliablity and validity are forthcoming.