Kaneb Center Announcements: "Teaching First Year Students" workshop and more

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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.  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.   Teaching First Year Students Join colleagues in discussing challenges, opportunities and strategies specific to teaching students in their first year of college. This workshop will be helpful for faculty who teach University Seminars, large lecture classes, Moreau classes, or any course aimed mainly at first year students. Date: Wednesday, February 16 Time: 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Presenters: Susan Ohmer, Associate Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre & Faculty Fellow, Notre Dame Learning | Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence Creating Accessible Materials (Mini Workshop) In this series, we’ll explore a variety of strategies to make our teaching more inclusive. This workshop will focus on creating course materials that are accessible to students of all backgrounds and abilities. Date: Thursday, February 17 Time: 11:00-11:45 a.m. Presenters: Emily Donahoe, Postdoctoral Fellow, ND Learning Inclusive Teaching Mini-Workshop Series Thursdays throughout the semester, 11:00am - 11:45am Supporting Student Wellbeing in the Classroom (Workshop) Wednesday, February 23; 2:00pm - 3:15pm Cultivating Attention in the Classroom Friday, February 25; 12:30pm - 1:45pm Facilitating Effective Discussion in the Humanities and Social Sciences Wednesday, March 2; 11:00am - 12:15pm 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 Blog Post Review: Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks, by Jade Liggett "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom sees the late bell hooks discussing and engaging with her past as a student and then as an educator in relation to education as a potentially profound and transformative experience that can tax the mind, body, and spirit due to opposition and oppression that is very evidently still in place in our educational systems..."

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