Kaneb Center Newsletter: Equitable and Effective Team-Based Learning 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 Instructors of Color Learning Community, the Collaborative Teaching Certificate, and our upcoming workshops. To view our full fall workshop schedule, visit our Events page.  Apply Now! Collaborative Teaching and Learning Certificate Fall 2021: Inclusive Teaching The Collaborative Teaching & Learning Certificate recognizes graduate students and postdocs who form an interdisciplinary cohort to discuss scholarship on teaching and learning and explore evidence-based pedagogical strategies over the course of a semester. This fall, our learning community will focus on inclusive teaching. Discussions will be tailored to the interests of participants, but we plan to explore the following: social justice, decolonizing the curriculum, antiracist teaching, culturally responsive teaching, and feminist pedagogy. Click here to learn more about the Collaborative Teaching and Learning Certificate requirements. If you’re interested in joining the Fall 2021 Collaborative Teaching and Learning cohort, fill out this form no later than Monday, September 6.  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 2: Canvas Discussions 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 focus on ways to use discussions in your course and how to create and manage them in Canvas. Date: Wednesday, September 8   Time: 10:00-10:45 a.m. Presenter(s): Brianna Stines, Learning Designer, ND Learning | Office of Digital Learning Equitable and Effective Team-Based Learning Team-based learning activities can be used to prepare students to operate as reflective, equitable, and collaborative members of diverse teams in their future careers (Lee et al., 2020). In this workshop, we will explore inclusive strategies for facilitating student interaction and designing effective teams. Participants have the opportunity to consider: assessment criteria for evaluating student groups; strategies for inviting students to co-create team contracts; and the benefits of assigning student roles within group projects. Date: Wednesday, September 8  Time: 10:30-11:45 a.m.  Presenter(s): Alex Oxner, Assistant Program Director for Inclusive Teaching and Emily Pitts Donahoe, Postdoctoral Associate, ND Learning | Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence Gathering Early Semester Feedback Thursday, September 16 Difficult Conversations in the Classroom Friday, September 17 Using Canvas to Implement Instructional Strategies and Enrich Your Course Wednesdays, throughout the semester Interacting Meaningfully with Texts Using Perusall Thursday, September 23 What Inclusive Instructors Do – virtual book talk/workshop with Tracie Addy Friday, September 24  (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.