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.