Past Events

How do and how should we as teachers respond to the urgent demands made by our students? This Teaching and Learning Seminar will examine what is at stake in these demands and how we as instructors might accommodate these requests, even if they sometimes interrupt our class schedules, so that they might be not just teachable moments but occasions to repair and build trust with our students.

We will discuss how to anticipate such moments during syllabus design and the introductory week of classes each term, offer suggestions on how to respond in the moment, and consider what can done at a campus level to support faculty and students in addressing crisis in the classroom. The insights shared during this meeting were developed by faculty participants in an AALAC seminar entitled “The Pedagogy of Urgency” held at Mt Holyoke last spring.

Jean Janecki, Coordinator of the Language Resource Center, will give a technology and teaching workshop/brown bag for faculty and staff on H5P. H5P is a great tool for creating interactive online activities that some instructors on campus are already exploring. Activities can easily be created in/or uploaded to Moodle or WordPres. Paula Debnar will also give a brief overview of how she has successfully incorporated H5P into her Homeric Greek Resources WordPress site.

Join fellow faculty and the Dean of Faculty and Dean of Studies offices to discuss liberal arts advising. We will focus on making the move from transactional to transformational advising and have time to discuss how the semester is going.

What do we assume students already know? What unintentional messages are we sending students? Join this Talking about Teaching luncheon workshop to participate in the conversation.