Are you interested in discussing STEM education at Brown? STEM Ed Friday is a vibrant learning community where STEM instructors and staff members share ideas, experiences, and challenges related to STEM education. Please register.
Team-Based Inquiry Learning (TBIL) is a form of active learning that uses the structure of Team-Based Learning as a means of implementing Inquiry-Based Learning. While initially developed in the context of mathematics instruction, TBIL is applicable to all disciplines with a tradition of inquiry based instruction. In this workshop, we will describe the essential elements of TBIL, and participants will explore how TBIL can be adapted to their own discipline. Please register.
Do you have questions about using Canvas for teaching and facilitating your course, whether it’s online, hybrid or in person? This workshop primarily addresses what instructors do during the course, as opposed to what must be done before the course, which is design. Facilitation focuses on how you, the instructor, can facilitate conditions for student learning through actions like setting clear expectations, maintaining instructor presence, and supporting and motivating learning. Join a Learning Designer and Learning Technologist from the Sheridan Center’s Digital Learning and Design team for a discussion of these topics. The session leaders will provide an overview of topics related to facilitating learning in courses utilizing Canvas and provide opportunities for instructors to share their strategies and tips with each other. Please register.
Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) at Brown will be hosting a gathering to bring together those who are currently participating in CIRTL as well as those interested in participating in CIRTL. This will be an informal opportunity to stop in and meet others, get to know staff who are supporting CIRTL, and get any of your questions answered about CIRTL at Brown. Lunch provided! Please register.
Do you have questions about using the Canvas template for your online Pre-College course? Join learning designers and technologists from Digital Learning and Design for an overview on how to use the Canvas template. They will also share tips for using Canvas as an organizing framework for your course. We will also devote part of the session to Q & A where you will be ask questions regarding your own course. Please register.
We teach in difficult times. Using Parker Palmer’s The Courage to Teach, this series will engage Brown instructors in reflecting on why we teach, who we are as teachers, and how we can engage our students in sometimes challenging conversations in our classrooms. Participants are welcome to attend just one meeting of the series or all of them. Each meeting will be co-facilitated by Mary Wright (Associate Provost for Teaching and Learning and Professor [Research] in Sociology) and a guest facilitator. We will reflect on purpose-related themes raised in the book – why we teach and who we are as teachers – while “trying on” different discussion approaches. Discussion will take place Noon - 12:50 PM, with lunch served for takeaway or continued conversation.
On Friday, February 16, please join us for a discussion with Professor Andre Willis (Religious Studies). Please register.
On Tuesday, February 27, please join us for a discussion with Dean Rashid Zia (Engineering & Physics). Please register.
On Friday, April 5, please join us for a discussion with Professor James (Jim) Valles (Physics) and Ruth Colwill (Cognitive and Psychological Sciences) at STEM Ed Fridays. Please register.
On Tuesday, April 9, please join us for a discussion co-facilitated with Laura Snyder (Education) and Brad Gibbs (Economics). Please register.
We teach in difficult times. Using Parker Palmer’s The Courage to Teach, this series will engage Brown instructors in reflecting on why we teach, who we are as teachers, and how we can engage our students in sometimes challenging conversations in our classrooms. Participants are welcome to attend just one meeting of the series or all of them. Each meeting will be co-facilitated by Mary Wright (Associate Provost for Teaching and Learning and Professor [Research] in Sociology) and a guest facilitator. We will reflect on purpose-related themes raised in the book – why we teach and who we are as teachers – while “trying on” different discussion approaches. Discussion will take place Noon - 12:50 PM, with lunch served for takeaway or continued conversation.
On Friday, February 16, please join us for a discussion with Professor Andre Willis (Religious Studies). Please register.
On Tuesday, February 27, please join us for a discussion with Dean Rashid Zia (Engineering & Physics). Please register.
On Friday, April 5, please join us for a discussion with Professor James (Jim) Valles (Physics) and Ruth Colwill (Cognitive and Psychological Sciences) at STEM Ed Fridays. Please register.
On Tuesday, April 9, please join us for a discussion co-facilitated with Laura Snyder (Education) and Brad Gibbs (Economics). Please register.
Are you interested in discussing STEM education at Brown? STEM Ed Friday is a vibrant learning community where STEM instructors and staff members share ideas, experiences, and challenges related to STEM education. Please register.
In this workshop we will review how to setup, administer, and grade paper-based exams with Gradescope. Gradescope is a digital platform that makes the work of grading more efficient, equitable, and expeditious. It is designed to provide the benefits of digital assessment while maintaining the security and fidelity of paper-based exams. The first portion of the workshop will introduce optimal Gradescope workflows. The remaining time will be devoted to answering questions from attendees. Please register.
Please join the Sheridan Center for our Canvas Gradebook workshop! In a live demo, DLD Learning Technologists will cover topics pertaining to general gradebook settings, grade posting policies, exporting final grades to Banner, as well as a designated time for any questions. The workshop will be available via Zoom on Wednesday, March 27th from 12pm-1pm. Please register. If you have any questions about registration, please contact [email protected].
Are you interested in discussing STEM education at Brown? STEM Ed Friday is a vibrant learning community where STEM instructors and staff members share ideas, experiences, and challenges related to STEM education. Please register.
We teach in difficult times. Using Parker Palmer’s The Courage to Teach, this series engages Brown instructors in reflecting on why we teach, who we are as teachers, and how we can engage our students in sometimes challenging conversations in our classrooms.
Please join us for this 90-minute session exploring the current state of educational development in the U.S. and imagining its future. A panel moderated by Dr. Debie Lohe, Associate Provost & Chief Online Learning Officer (Saint Louis University), will respond to and build on Dr. Mary Wright’s new book, Centers for Teaching and Learning: The New Landscape in Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023). Panelists will include: Dr. Tracie M. Addy, Associate Dean of Teaching & Learning (Lafayette College); Dr. Isis Artze-Vega, Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs (Valencia College); Dr. Jennifer Frederick, Executive Director of the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning & Associate Provost for Academic Initiatives (Yale University); and Dr. C. Edward Watson, Associate Vice President for Curricular and Pedagogical Innovation & Executive Director of Open Educational Resources and Digital Innovation (AAC&U). Please register.
In this workshop, we will discuss how to prepare our students to engage in and succeed at difficult conversations in the classroom. By focusing on the skills of listening, contributing, self-awareness, and facilitating, we will break down how to help students develop their capacities for engaging in complex dialogues. Please register.
Are you interested in discussing STEM education at Brown? STEM Ed Friday is a vibrant learning community where STEM instructors and staff members share ideas, experiences, and challenges related to STEM education. Please register.
How do we get to know our students as learners and as humans? How do they get to know us as educators? How do they get to know each other? How do we learn together and from each other?
Building community in the classroom is critical for sustaining equitable student engagement throughout the semester. Embodied learning and pedagogical practices can be a powerful community building, content learning and meaning making tool, offering a range of techniques that educators across all disciplines can adapt and integrate into their teaching . (For these sessions, we operationalize embodied pedagogies as centering the engagement of the senses, emotions, the body, movement, and the environment in the learning process.) How can we use embodied pedagogies to get back into our bodies, strengthen the mind-body
connection, and develop connections to ourselves, our students, and to each
other? How can we use embodied pedagogies to deepen understanding of course
material? And how can we use these practices in both in-person and virtual
settings?
Please join Dr. Theresa Ronquillo in an experiential exploration of embodied pedagogical practices drawn from interactive theater, Theater of the Oppressed, improv, and other techniques. Part 1 focuses on collective learning and community building in person. Part 2 opens up embodied possibilities in a virtual environment – including a discussion of applications/ adaptations to online teaching and facilitation, as well as potential challenges and creative ways to address them. Register for Part 2.
Building community in the classroom is critical for sustaining equitable student engagement throughout the semester. Embodied learning and pedagogical practices can be a powerful community building, content learning and meaning making tool, offering a range of techniques that educators across all disciplines can adapt and integrate into their teaching . (For these sessions, we operationalize embodied pedagogies as centering the engagement of the senses, emotions, the body, movement, and the environment in the learning process.) How can we use embodied
pedagogies to get back into our bodies, strengthen the mind-body connection, and develop connections to ourselves, our students, and to each other? How can we use embodied pedagogies to deepen understanding of course material? And how can we use these practices in both in-person and virtual settings?
Please join Dr. Theresa Ronquillo in an experiential exploration of embodied pedagogical practices drawn from interactive theater, Theater of the Oppressed, improv, and other techniques. Part 1 focuses on collective learning and community building in person. Register for Part 1.
