This series focuses on English outside the classroom, especially as it relates to U.S. culture. Participants will discuss language usage in daily life and have opportunities to share their experience. Coffee and tea provided.
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Join the ELL team for our weekly English reading and conversation group. The Brown Bag News Group uses news articles as launching points for discussions about US culture, idiomatic language, and English vocabulary. All are welcome. Pizza provided!
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This series aims to help participants speak clearly and confidently when using English in academic settings. Topics will range from pronunciation to presentation skills.
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https://sheridan-center.securevault.com/pma/apex/f?p=210:76:0::NO::P76_E...
Open to registered participants only.
Join the ELL team for our weekly English reading and conversation group. The Brown Bag News Group uses news articles as launching points for discussions about US culture, idiomatic language, and English vocabulary. All are welcome. Pizza provided!
Please register here:
https://sheridan-center.securevault.com/pma/apex/f?p=210:76:0::NO::P76_E...
This lunch series brings early career faculty together with campus leaders to explore a variety of faculty issues. Lunch will be served at 11:45 am.
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This series focuses on skills needed for academic writing in the U.S., including summarizing, paraphrasing, writing cohesively, writing persuasively, integrating sources, and citation.
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New TA Orientation to Teaching at Brown features a graduate student panel and hands-on workshops to help graduate TAs prepare for the first days of class, practice approaches to responding to student writing, and learn strategies for grading in quantitative courses. Light refreshments will be served.
Co-sponsored by the Graduate School and the Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning.
This workshop will equip First Readings seminar leaders with tools and strategies to facilitate thoughtful and productive discussion. Participants will learn techniques for creating a seminar environment conducive to discussion and develop strategies for starting, sustaining, and concluding a book discussion. This workshop will be offered twice and is appropriate for faculty and staff who will be facilitating a First Readings seminar. Undergraduate co-facilitators are also welcome to attend this session by invitation. Please register
What does someone mean when they say "catch the RIPTA" or "meet me in The Ratty"? Join ELL Graduate Specialist Sara Gramley in exploring the local language of Brown and the surrounding community. Idioms, acronyms, and abbreviations will be decoded and discussed.
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Join ELL Graduate Specialist Sara Gramley in exploring some do's and don'ts of email communication in a university setting.
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This workshop will equip First Readings seminar leaders with tools and strategies to facilitate thoughtful and productive discussion. Participants will learn techniques for creating a seminar environment conducive to discussion and develop strategies for starting, sustaining, and concluding a book discussion. This workshop will be offered twice and is appropriate for faculty and staff who will be facilitating a First Readings seminar.
What does someone mean when they say "catch the RIPTA" or "meet me in The Ratty"? Join ELL Graduate Specialist Sara Gramley in exploring the local language of Brown and the surrounding community. Idioms, acronyms, and abbreviations will be decoded and discussed.
Register here: https://sheridan-center.securevault.com/pma/apex/f?p=210:76:0::NO::P76_E...
Date & Times: Monday, August 28, 10:00am-11:00am
Where: Sciences Library, Room 520
Description: Join ELL Graduate Specialist Sara Gramley in exploring some do's and don'ts of email communication in a university setting.
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On Friday, August 25, the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning will offer its annual teaching orientation for faculty and postdoctoral fellows new to teaching at Brown. You may also be interested in resources the Sheridan has developed for syllabus design or for those new to teaching at Brown.
Members of the Brown community are invited to honor the recipients of the University awards in Teaching at the 2017 Awards Ceremony. Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of faculty and graduate students at this university-wide reception and ceremony. Sponsored by the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning.