Past Events

Brown-Bag Discussion: Genders in the Classroom

Sheridan Center for Teaching & Learning

What roles do genders play in teaching and learning in your classroom? Gail Cohee (Gender & Sexuality Studies, Director of Sarah Doyle Women’s Center) will lead a brown-bag discussion on how gender can affect your classroom dynamics and how this can influence your role as a teacher and a mentor to students. She will also explore the changing roles and perspectives on gender among students today. RSVP at sheridan.brown.edu to reserve a place.

Brown Bag Discussion: Talking Science w/ Cornelia Dean

Sheridan Center for Teaching & Learning

Society suffers when scientists and engineers keep away from policy debates, but their language of scholarly discourse can be ineffective in communicating with the public. Learn ways to approach this problem in a discussion led by Cornelia Dean, a science writer and former science editor of The NY Times, and author of Am I Making Myself Clear?, a guide for researchers. RSVP for this brown-bag discussion for faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students at sheridan.brown.edu.

Sheridan Teaching Seminar - Rhetorical Practice: Teaching as Persuasive Communication

Salomon Center, Room 001

Teachers are primarily communicators, and reflection on rhetorical practices promotes better engagement and communication with students. Lindsay Goss (Theatre Arts and Performance Studies) will introduce techniques to help improve your classroom communication.

Sheridan Teaching Seminar - Rhetorical Practice: Teaching as Persuasive Communication

Salomon Center, Room 001

Teachers are primarily communicators, and reflection on rhetorical practices promotes better engagement and communication with students. Lindsay Goss (Theatre Arts and Performance Studies) will introduce techniques to help improve your classroom communication.

Brown Bag Discussion: Mentoring & Advising Undergraduates

Sheridan Center for Teaching & Learning

The mentoring and advising of undergraduates is central to our role as teachers and researchers. Come to this brown bag discussion, led by Jan Tullis (Geology) to share experiences and concerns in supporting undergraduates as they navigate their academic courses, select concentrations, and find appropriate research experiences and transition to life after Brown. Bring a brown-bag lunch. RSVP at sheridan.brown.edu.

Academic Career Roundtable Series: Life as a Faculty Member

Sheridan Center for Teaching & Learning

Join us at the Sheridan Center to hear guest faculty from various institutions share their experiences as a faculty member, and their career paths that led to their academic positions. Christine Shepardson is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee. She is the winner of a 2009-2010 ACLS Fellowship, a 2008 NEH Summer Stipend, and a 2008 Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society. Register at sheridan.brown.edu.

Sheridan Teaching Seminar - Grading and Evaluation: Measuring Your Students' Learning

Salomon Center, Room 001

Professors Luther Spoehr (Education) and Maureen Sigler (Insight Education Group) will discuss the goals of assessment and the role of assessment in student learning. This lecture will cover the importance of setting clear standards for grading, and the development of rubrics and other assessment techniques.

Workshop: Classroom Communication

Sheridan Center for Teaching & Learning

This hands-on, interactive workshop introduces strategies to help new instructors hone the rhetorical skills fundamental to every academic career and improve their ability to communicate in their classrooms. Participants will learn how effective classroom communication can improve student learning and how to improve their own proficiency in communicating. RSVP at sheridan.brown.edu to reserve a place at this workshop. Please register even if the event is currently fully subscribed, as there may be cancellations that would enable you to attend

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