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Workshop: (Re)Designing Syllabi for Inclusive Classrooms that Support Learners & Instructors

Register here | Facilitator: Shelley Reid

Are you ready to align your current and future courses with university commitments to inclusive teaching? In this workshop, we will work to advance our understanding of inclusive course design and how to improve syllabi, assignments, and activities to be more inclusive for everyone in the space (including instructors!). During the session, we will have discussion time to focus on connecting these ideas with your course and your discipline. At the end of the workshop, participants will leave with a greater understanding of the potential considerations and options for (re)designing inclusive courses from the foundations to the rafters.

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

Workshop: How to Handle Difficult Classroom Discussions and Situations in the Moment

Register here | Facilitator: Shelley Reid

Are you prepared to handle difficult discussions and charged situations in the classroom in the moment? Do you sometimes think of things later that you wish you would have said or done? In this workshop, we will prepare how to handle important and potentially tense classroom conversations in the moment. Our focus will be on how to support everyone in the classroom – including yourself – during tense times. We will explore and discuss several teaching approaches. This workshop is applicable to instructors across all disciplines for facilitating important conversations, whether or not their course topics include socially pressing issues (like race, gender, religion, politics). Please note, this is the second in a two-part series on difficult conversations. However, participants are welcome and encouraged to attend this session even if they were not able to attend Part One.

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

Workshop: Fostering Engagement and Belonging with Inclusive Classroom Techniques

Register here | Facilitator: Shelley Reid

Are you ready to enhance inclusive teaching throughout your instructional spaces? Would you like to build tangible plans for your classes and hear how other faculty support their students? This is where that journey begins. In this workshop, we will examine some of the definitions and terms often found in conversations about creating more inclusive classrooms. We will work together to advance our individual abilities in broadly inclusive teaching and learning to support all students. At the end of the workshop, we will have developed familiarity with concepts and terminology, explored deliberately inclusive classroom activities, and set one or two manageable goals for our classes.

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

Workshop: Preparing Your Course and Yourself for Difficult Classroom Discussions & Situations

Register here | Facilitator: Shelley Reid

Do you have strategies to prepare yourself and your students to handle difficult conversations? This could be when you are having difficult conversations about topics like race, sexuality, religion, politics, or similar. These situations also could result from a discussion comment that makes a student or group uncomfortable. In this workshop, we will discuss how to design (or redesign) your course and prepare yourself to facilitate important or “hot topic” conversations in the classroom. This workshop is applicable to instructors across all disciplines for facilitating important conversations, whether or not their course topics include socially pressing issues. This workshop is part of a four-part series for Mason faculty to engage in broadly inclusive education across all disciplines.

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

Workshop: Artificial Intelligence Tools and…Inclusive Teaching?

Register here | Facilitator: Laina Lockett

Formerly called “ChatGPT, AI Text Generator Tools, and…Inclusive Teaching?”

Access to artificial intelligence (AI) text generators has upended education – and many other sectors – as much or more than past technology advancements and innovations. Join us in this workshop as we discuss how we continue teaching with impact and to support all students in this new reality. We explore instructional approaches, considerations, and methods to help us teach with less stress and more strategy. This workshop is part of the Teaching with AI credential Level 1 series.

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

Workshop: Artificial Intelligence Tools and…Inclusive Teaching?

Register here | Facilitator: Rachel Yoho

Formerly called “ChatGPT, AI Text Generator Tools, and…Inclusive Teaching?”

Access to artificial intelligence (AI) text generators has upended education – and many other sectors – as much or more than past technology advancements and innovations. Join us in this workshop as we discuss how we continue teaching with impact and to support all students in this new reality. We explore instructional approaches, considerations, and methods to help us teach with less stress and more strategy. This workshop is part of the Teaching with AI credential Level 1 series and the AIEM-Teach credential. 

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

Workshop: (Re)Designing Syllabi for Inclusive Classrooms that Support Learners & Instructors

Register here | Facilitator: Rachel Yoho

Are you ready to align your courses with university commitments to inclusive teaching? Or are you developing a new course or submitting an existing one for the new university-wide tags (like Mason Core)? In this workshop, we will work to advance our understanding of inclusive course design and how to improve syllabi to be more inclusive for everyone in the space (including instructors!). During the session, we will have specific discussion time to focus on connecting these ideas with your course and your discipline. At the end of the workshop, participants will leave with a greater understanding of the potential considerations for designing and redesigning inclusive course syllabi and aligning with broader institutional initiatives and expectations.

Please reach out to Dr. Rachel Yoho ([email protected]) with any questions.

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

Workshop: How to Handle Difficult Classroom Discussions and Situations in the Moment

Canceled Register here | Facilitator: Rachel Yoho

Are you prepared to handle difficult discussions and charged situations in the classroom in the moment? Do you usually think of things later that you wish you would have said or done?  In this workshop, we will prepare and practice how to handle important and potentially tense classroom conversations in the moment.  Our focus will be on how to support everyone in the classroom – including yourself – during tense times.  We will discuss and practice several teaching approaches.  This workshop is applicable to instructors across all disciplines for facilitating important conversations, whether or not their designed course topics include socially pressing issues (like race, gender, religion, politics).  Please note, this is the second in a two-part workshop series on important conversations.  However, participants are welcome and encouraged to attend this session even if they were not able to attend part one.

Please reach out to Dr. Rachel Yoho ([email protected]) with any questions.

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

Workshop: Supporting Student Learning through Self-Awareness and Reflection to Navigate a Complex, Global Society

Canceled Register here | Facilitator: Rachel Yoho

Are you interested in incorporating techniques to help students develop their own self-awareness and navigate a complex, global society in your field, discipline, and course?  Or are you (re-)developing a course for one of the new Mason Core designations of Just Societies or Global Contexts?  This workshop is designed to support your teaching around helping students develop their self-awareness, particularly related to your discipline.  This workshop includes the concepts of positionality and intersectionality broadly, but particularly for the new Core areas. At the end of the workshop, we will have explored the concepts and applied them to potential activities and assignments in our courses.

Please reach out to Dr. Rachel Yoho ([email protected]) with any questions.

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

Workshop: AI Tools and…Inclusive Teaching?

Register here | Facilitator: Rachel Yoho

Formerly called “ChatGPT, AI Text Generator Tools, and…Inclusive Teaching?”

Access to artificial intelligence (AI) text generators has upended education – and many other sectors – as much or more than past technology advancements and innovations. Join us in this workshop as we discuss how we continue teaching with impact and to support all students in this new reality. We explore instructional approaches, considerations, and methods to help us teach with less stress and more strategy.

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.