Kaneb Center Newsletter: Graduate Peer Observation Program and more

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Home      About      Blog The Kaneb Center is pleased to invite you to take part in all of our activities this semester. This week's email includes information about the Graduate Peer Observation Program, the Instructors of Color Learning Community, and our upcoming workshops. To view our full fall workshop schedule, visit our Events page.  Graduate Peer Observation Program Have an experienced graduate student observe your class/tutorial/discussion section in this confidential, low-stakes opportunity for formative feedback! All observations will be scheduled before fall break, and on a first come, first served basis.                       Fill out this form  to send us your teaching schedule and preferred dates for observation. A trained graduate associate of the Kaneb Center will contact you and observe a day of your class. After the observation, you will meet for a short discussion on what went well and suggestions for improvement. TAs and Graduate Instructors of Color  Learning Community Graduate students of color are invited to take part in the TA and Graduate Instructors of Color Learning Community. This ongoing, biweekly conversation creates space for TAs and Graduate Instructors of color to share their experiences with teaching and learning, work/life balance, and power differentials. We discuss the challenges of navigating a predominantly white institution and student body, while also developing teaching strategies, discussing diversity and inclusion in academia, equity, and more. In this intellectual community of peers we support each other’s formations as teacher-scholars by listening to and affirming classroom experiences, discovering and sharing skills, and learning from diverse pedagogical perspectives. This program is co-sponsored by The Graduate School.  If you are interested in joining this group, please fill out this form. You can also contact Dominique Vargas (dvar...@nd.edu) for more information. If you’ve already signed up on the form, we will be in touch soon. Upcoming Workshops We invite you to sign up for any of the following pedagogy workshops this fall. For more information and to register, click here.   Using Canvas to Implement Instructional Strategies and Enrich Your Course 3: Assessment Strategies in Canvas At the intersection of best practices and technical demos, this workshop series focuses on instructional strategies and how to leverage Canvas accordingly. Workshops are scheduled for 45 minutes, but may end earlier on some occasions. This workshop will provide an overview of how to implement different assessment strategies into your course using Canvas features. Date: Wednesday, September 22 Time: 10:00-10:45 a.m. Presenter: Brianna Stines, Learning Designer, ND Learning | Office of Digital Learning Interacting Meaningfully with Texts Using Perusall This workshop will show how collaborative reading activities and group annotation of “texts” promote meaningful interaction and engagement. Assignments can draw on traditional texts as well as videos, images, audio files, websites, and online textbooks. Students read and annotate with their comments and questions. Students who demonstrate deeper engagement with the texts and with their classmates can earn higher scores. This session will give an overview of the platform, explain how to get started, and demonstrate different types of assignments within Perusall. Date: Thursday, September 23 Time: 2:00-3:15 p.m. Presenter: Brian Burchett, Manager, Educational Technologies, OIT Teaching and Learning Technologies What Inclusive Instructors Do: A Virtual Book Talk & Workshop with Tracie Addy Join Tracie Addy, one of the authors of What Inclusive Instructors Do, for this virtual workshop. Dr. Addy will start with a brief overview of some key concepts that are important to inclusive teaching. Then you will have an opportunity to reflect on the instructional equity/inclusion challenges that you face in your teaching, and explore how principles and practices from the book can be applied to meet those challenges. Date: Friday, September 24 Time: 2:00-3:30 p.m. (Inter)active Learning Tuesday, September 28  Cultivating Attention in the Classroom Thursday, September 30 Panel: Writing Effective Letters of Recommendation Monday, October 4 Public Writing as a Tool for Learning Thursday, October 7 Facilitating Discussion in Humanities and Social Sciences Friday, October 8 Incorporating Active Learning Techniques into Tutorials to Improve Student Learning  Monday, October 11 Transparent Assignment Design Tuesday, October 12 Faculty Panel: Enhancing Learning with Low Stakes Assessments Wednesday, October 27 Using CIF Questions as a Tool to Improve Teaching and Learning Thursday, October 28 Decolonizing Your Curriculum I: Overview of Practice Monday, November 1 Selecting/Creating Asynchronous Content Wednesday, November 3 Motivation & Learning Tuesday, November 9 Improve Your Teaching & Student Learning With Classroom Research Wednesday, November 17 Decolonizing Your Curriculum II: Syllabus Workshop Tuesday, November 18 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  Phone (574) 631-9146  ka...@nd.edu  To unsubscribe from this list, please send a blank email to kctl-announce-l...@nd.edu.