Kaneb Center Announcements: Lessons for Building Community

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Home      About      Blog This week's email includes information about the Graduate Peer Observation Program, spring workshops, and a new blog post. To view our full workshop schedule, visit our Events page. Notre Dame Learning Speaker Series: Lessons for Building Community from Social Neuroscience Join us for our ND Learning Speaker Series workshop with Dr. Sarah Rose Cavanagh.  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 here. Graduate Students and Postdocs, Join the Kaneb Center Team! The ND Learning | Kaneb Center seeks graduate students and postdocs with interest and experience in teaching to serve as Kaneb Center Postdoctoral and Graduate Associates (PGAs) for the 2022-2023 academic year. PGAs facilitate workshops on effective teaching, develop teaching resources, and contribute to other activities to help graduate students and postdocs grow as teachers. This position is an excellent opportunity to develop as an instructor, a professional, and a leader. Click here for details about the position and application process. Applications are due on March 20. For more information, contact Kristi Rudenga at krud...@nd.edu. 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 March 25, 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. Upcoming Workshops We invite you to sign up for any of the following pedagogy workshops this spring. All workshops will take place via Zoom unless otherwise noted. For more information and to register, click here. Facilitating Effective Discussions in the Humanities and Social Sciences Classroom discussion can make or break a course. Done well, it’s the linchpin for meaningful classroom engagement; done poorly, even the best-planned course material can fall flat. In this workshop, participants will explore strategies for sparking effective discussions and generating inclusive student interactions. We will also brainstorm how to turn those strategies into concrete action in social sciences and humanities classrooms by practicing a range of discussion techniques. Date: Wednesday, March 2 Time: 11:10 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Presenters: Julian Chike and Haley Dutmer, Graduate Associates, ND Learning | Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence Supporting Inclusive Group Work in STEM Classes (Mini Workshop) In this series, we’ll explore a variety of strategies to make our teaching more inclusive. This workshop will focus on inclusive approaches to group work in STEM courses. Date: Thursday, March 3 Time: 11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Presenter:  Victoria Goodrich, Associate Teaching Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering & Faculty Fellow, ND Learning | Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence Inclusive Teaching Mini-Workshop Series Thursdays throughout the semester, 11:00am - 11:45am Improving Your CIFs Wednesday, March 16; 3:30pm - 4:45pm Creative Assignments and Assessments in Language and Culture Education Tuesday, March 22; 9:30am - 10:45am Hard Conversations in STEM Tuesday, April 5; 11:00am - 12:15pm Integrative & Engaged Learning with ePortfolios Wednesday, April 20; 2:00pm - 3:15pm Teaching for Social Justice Friday, April 22; 11:00am - 12:15pm New Library Resources Stay up to date on what's new in Teaching and Learning — check out some of the newest titles added to the Kaneb Center Library: José Antonio Bowen. Teaching Change: How to Develop Independent Thinkers Using Relationships, Resilience, and Reflection. Johns Hopkins University Press (2021). Micere Keels. Campus Counterspaces: Black and Latinx Students' Search for Community at Historically White Universities. Cornell University Press (2020). Jessamyn Neuhaus. Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds. West Virginia University Press (2019).   New Blog Post Using Social Annotation to Enhance Student Preparation by Kevin Barry and Brian Burchett "Instructors often report that their students are not reading assigned material prior to coming to class, and this limits the possibility and impact of what happens in the classroom.  Students who prepare for class are more likely to ask questions in class, they ask more meaningful questions, and are better prepared for engaging in activities that dive deeper into the concepts that they explored prior to class. A social annotation tool, such as Perusall..." 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Home      About      Blog This week's email includes information about the Graduate Peer Observation Program, spring workshops, and a new blog post. To view our full workshop schedule, visit our Events page. Notre Dame Learning Speaker Series: Lessons for Building Community from Social Neuroscience Join us for our ND Learning Speaker Series workshop with Dr. Sarah Rose Cavanagh.  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 here. Graduate Students and Postdocs, Join the Kaneb Center Team! The ND Learning | Kaneb Center seeks graduate students and postdocs with interest and experience in teaching to serve as Kaneb Center Postdoctoral and Graduate Associates (PGAs) for the 2022-2023 academic year. PGAs facilitate workshops on effective teaching, develop teaching resources, and contribute to other activities to help graduate students and postdocs grow as teachers. This position is an excellent opportunity to develop as an instructor, a professional, and a leader. Click here for details about the position and application process. Applications are due on March 20. For more information, contact Kristi Rudenga at krud...@nd.edu. 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 March 25, 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.

Upcoming Workshops We invite you to sign up for any of the following pedagogy workshops this spring. All workshops will take place via Zoom unless otherwise noted. For more information and to register, click here.

Improving Your CIFs This workshop will cover practical approaches to improve Course Instructor Feedback (CIF) scores in science and engineering corses. It will address course design, policies, and appropriate classroom environment. The workshop is geared toward new instructors. Date: Wednesday, March 16 Time: 3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Presenter: Steve Corcelli, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry & Faculty Fellow, Notre Dame Learning | Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence

Creative Assignments and Assessments in Language and Culture Education

With the recent rapid move to online teaching, many instructors are trying to find the best alternative to traditional assignments and assessments for language courses. In this presentation, we will re-think how we are assessing our students and explore options to diversify students’ assessments such as adopting a final movie project to replace the traditional language oral exams. The hands-on part will include the following topics: Asynchronous Oral Exams using Flipgrid or Google Form; Online Quizzing using Liveworksheets; In-video Quizzing via EdPuzzle; Adobe Page and Adobe Video Date: Tuesday, March 22 Time: 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Presenter:  Weibing Ye, Associate Teaching Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures & Faculty Fellow, Notre Dame Learning | Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence

Inclusive Teaching Mini-Workshop Series Thursdays throughout the semester, 11:00am - 11:45am

Hard Conversations in STEM Tuesday, April 5; 11:00am - 12:15pm Integrative & Engaged Learning with ePortfolios Wednesday, April 20; 2:00pm - 3:15pm Teaching for Social Justice Friday, April 22; 11:00am - 12:15pm

New Blog Post What I Learned as a Kaneb Center Graduate Associate: Reflections on Teaching Skills from an Industry-Bound Graduate Student by Kathryn Trentadue "During my fourth year of chemistry graduate school, I learned about an opportunity for graduate students with an interest in pedagogy: the Kaneb Center’s Postdoctoral and Graduate Associates (PGAs). Each year, the Kaneb Center hires several graduate students and/or postdocs to help with running workshops, writing blog posts, and providing teaching consultations. This program isn’t just for those who are already perfect teachers though (which is good because I’m certainly not perfect!). Instead, PGAs focus both on teaching others how to teach effectively and on continuing to grow and become better teachers ourselves. ..."