Past Events
Writing Assignment Idea Share
Oct. 12, 2018 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
318 Blanchard Hall
In this Talking about Teaching luncheon workshop session, faculty are invited to come together and share ideas about writing assignments that have worked well for them, troubleshoot less-successful assignments, and work together to develop new ideas.
Questioning Assumptions: The Hidden Curriculum with James Harold and Liz Markovits
Teaching and Scholarship Renewal Workshops 2018- REGISTRATION NOW CLOSED
May. 14, 2018 8:30 am – 3:00 pm
May. 15, 2018 8:30 am – 3:15 pm
May. 16, 2018 8:30 am – 2:45 pm
Willits-Hallowell Center
Keynote speaker, May 15: Stephen Brookfield, author of The Skillful Teacher and Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher
Breakfast (8:30am) and Lunch (12:15pm) will be served each day, Registration required
What's the big idea? Using Learning Goals for Inclusion
Apr. 6, 2018 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Dwight Lounge
Talking About Teaching Lunch
with Sarah Frenette
Identifying desired results related to the learning goals of a course helps educators craft courses, classes, assessments and assignments that lead to understanding. In this session, we will share the desired results that we have for our own courses and work backwards to investigate actions that support reaching those outcomes. Feel free to bring one of your course descriptions or syllabi along to the workshop.
Teaching & Learning Within the Community: Getting Started with CBL -- POSTPONED UNTIL FALL
Mar. 2, 2018 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Dwight Lounge
Talking About Teaching Lunch
with Alan Bloomgarden
How do CBL courses work and where can you start? Come hear from faculty with CBL experience and find out what supports there are for this work, as well as what kinds of programs and organizations CBL is already working with. Faculty will have a chance to explore how CBL might work for their course and what models—including individual student project and whole course plans--they might use.
Open Classrooms Week
Feb. 26 – Mar. 1, 2018 8:00 am – 8:00 pm
Please join us for Open Classrooms Week! February 26- March 1, 2018
A week-long event for faculty to open their classes and create opportunities for colleagues to explore new pegagogies, spark conversations across disciplines, and check out technologies and materials.
Pedagogy Roundtable: Anti-Slavery Literature and Its Legacies
Feb. 23, 2018 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm
102 Shattuck Hall, the Cassani Room
Join our distinguished panelists for a conversation about classroom approaches to 19th-century anti-slavery literature in the current era of the Black Lives Matter movement at 1:00 pm. Registration required for the luncheon from 12:30-1:00 only.
Presented by the Five Colleges Seminar on Global Cultures of the Long 19th Century, panelists on the pedagogy roundtable include: Frances Botkin (English, Towson University); Kimberly Juanita Brown (English & Africana Studies, Mount Holyoke College); Sean Gordon (English, UMass Amherst) ; and Patricia Matthew (English, Montclair State University)
Global-Local
Feb. 14, 2018 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Dwight Lounge
Talking About Teaching Lunch
with Serin Houston (Assistant Professor of Geography & International Relations), Lynn Morgan (Professor and Chair of Sociology & Anthropology), and Kirk Lange (Director of International Experiential Learning).
This Old Syllabus: (Re)Design for Inclusion - REGISTRATION CLOSED
Jan. 16, 2018 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Willits-Hallowell, Executive Board Room
During this hands-on workshop, a team from TLI, RIS, and AccessAbility Services will help you redesign your syllabus to ensure that all students can engage with your course. The first part will review inclusive and accessible course design principles. The second part will allow you to get out your laptop and focus on implementation within the syllabus document itself. Jumpstart your Spring semester with us! With Megan Brooks, Emily Dean, Chrissa Lindahl, Elizabeth Markovits, and Kaitlin Molloy.
Workshop with Dr. P. Gorski: Cultivating Students' Social Justice Thinking- REGISTRATION CLOSED
Jan. 16, 2018 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Willits-Hallowell, Executive Board Room
“Cultivating Students’ Social Justice Thinking: A Pedagogy for Critical Consciousness.”
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.
What Are Grades For?
Dec. 1, 2017 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Dwight Lounge
Talking About Teaching Lunch
with Amy Grillo and Elizabeth Markovits
Grades are so much a part of our academic culture that we often don’t ask ourselves what purposes they serve. Are we using them to compare students’ achievements against each other, or are we using them to measure students’ progress towards specific criteria? How do grades affect student motivation and learning? What does research say about the uses and usefulness of grades? Come share your thoughts, experiences and questions about the role of grades in teaching and learning.
Global-Local POSTPONED
Nov. 17, 2017 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Dwight Lounge
Talking About Teaching Lunch
with Serin Houston (Assistant Professor of Geography & International Relations), Lynn Morgan (Professor and Chair of Sociology & Anthropology), and Kirk Lange (Director of International Experiential Learning).
The Global-Local Initiative fosters student understanding of the interrelationships between the global and local- how processes are expressed and made meaningful at multiple scales and how individuals and communities are affected by and participants in global and local processes and systems. The lunch conversation will focus (a) on curricular possibilities to integrate global-local into the classroom and (b) on scaffolding for experiences that enable our students to make sense of their curricular and co-curricular learning across different sites, domestically and abroad.
Faculty Workshop with Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum- REGISTRATION FULL
Nov. 2, 2017 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Willits-Hallowell
Former Dean of Faculty and Acting President of Mount Holyoke College, and Ninth President of Spelman College (2002-2015), Dr. Tatum is widely recognized as a race relations expert and leader in higher education. Her areas of research include racial identity development, and the role of race in the classroom. She is the author of “Can We Talk About Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation ‘ (2007) and “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Other Conversations about Race” (1997) as well as “Assimilation Blues: Black Families in a White Community” (1987).
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