Kaneb Center Newsletter: Spark of Learning book talk and more

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Home      About      Blog The Kaneb Center has wrapped up its events for the Fall semester. This week's email includes information about the Notre Dame Learning Spring Speaker Series and a new blog post. Keep an eye out for our full Spring events schedule in future newsletters!  Speaker Series: Dr. Sarah Rose Cavanagh Wondering how to energize, motivate, and connect your students in a challenging time? Join us for our Notre Dame Learning Speaker Series event featuring Sarah Rose Cavanagh, on January 14, 2022 in McKenna Hall 205/206/207 (Register below). Dr. Cavanagh is the author of The Spark of Learning and the Senior Associate Director of Teaching and Learning at Simmons University. 10:30am Book Talk THE SPARK OF LEARNING: ENERGIZING LEARNING WITH THE SCIENCE OF EMOTION Traditional views of education assume that reason should reign over emotion, and that the classroom should be a quiet, dispassionate space where students and instructors impartially engage with facts, figures, and theories. However, emotions possess the power to arrest attention, enhance memory, and mobilize efforts. Cavanagh brings to bear a wide range of evidence from the study of education, psychology, and neuroscience to suggest that targeting emotions in your presentation style, course design, and assignments is a highly potent teaching strategy. 11:45am Lunch 1:00pm Workshop LESSONS FOR BUILDING COMMUNITY FROM SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE A sense of community in the classroom contributes to effective learning, likely through benefits to student motivation. While traditional pedagogical literature speaks to methods of building community within the classroom, we can also look outside our intellectual silos to other academic disciplines researching how human beings form and maintain effective collaborative groups. In this interactive session, we’ll consider powerful research investigating team dynamics in simulated space missions, the social neuroscience of how the brain embeds our social others in our very sense of self, and even how honeybees make collective decisions together. We will work together to understand and apply these lessons to the work of the higher education classroom. Register for either or both of these events. New Blog Post Motivating Students During End-of-Semester Stress, by Haley Dutmer "As we transition to setting our students up for success on finals, it’s important to consider the role that self-efficacy (i.e., confidence in one’s own ability to succeed) plays in motivating students to complete challenging tasks...With some small steps, you can help ease your students’ stress and boost their confidence to get them to the finish line..." Useful resources Teaching Certificates Events Teaching Resources Services for Graduate Students and Postdocs Services for All Instructors Contact Information 353 DeBartolo Classroom Building,  Notre Dame, IN 46556  (574) 631-9146  ka...@nd.edu  To unsubscribe from this list, please send a blank email to kctl-announce-l...@nd.edu.