Lesson Learned: Active Learning Coaching Program to Promote Faculty Development and Innovation in STEM Courses.

This lesson learned paper describes the faculty development program conducted to implement active learning methodologies in basic science courses from engineering degrees in a Chilean regional university. Contextualized in an Institutional Improvement Project (IIP) centered on students' STEM skills, the program aimed to impact student learning by enhancing instructors' teaching practices. The faculty development program had a continuous collaborative approach, where methodological experts accompanied a faculty team before and during the execution of the courses. The coaching methodology had three pillars: a collaborative process of design and creation of coursework materials guided by methodological experts, classroom and virtual support, and weekly reflection. In parallel, a follow-up process was applied to evaluate the program's impact. In the article, we present three main lessons learned from our program: the importance of the regular attendance and engagement of the faculty members in the coaching activities, the commitment of the departments to support innovative practices, and organizational conviction to invest in the installation of active learning practices. The authors will present this paper in a Lightning talk to discuss the lessons learned from the experience with the audience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]