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.