Join the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning and build community with other graduate students and postdocs across the institution as we discuss how to create teaching and learning spaces that support all students, instructors, and TAs/graders. All graduate students, whether current TAs or hoping to have a future grader, TA, or instructor of record position, are welcome!
Join the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning and build community with other graduate students and postdocs across the institution as we discuss how to create teaching and learning spaces that support all students, instructors, and TAs/graders. All graduate students, whether current TAs or hoping to have a future grader, TA, or instructor of record position, are welcome!
Join the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning and build community with other graduate students and postdocs across the institution as we discuss how to create teaching and learning spaces that support all students, instructors, and TAs/graders. All graduate students, whether current TAs or hoping to have a future grader, TA, or instructor of record position, are welcome!
These sessions have been canceled.
Would you like to earn the AIEM – Teach Level 2 credential? Is it difficult to find time in your schedule and keep track of different workshops? Consider joining this accelerated session, where participants engage with the full suite to earn the level 2 credential in a shortened timeframe. Come build community and earn a recognized teaching professional development credential! Filling out this form registers you for attending both days.
*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.
These sessions have been canceled.
Would you like to earn the AIEM – Teach Level 2 credential? Is it difficult to find time in your schedule and keep track of different workshops? Consider joining this accelerated session, where participants engage with the full suite to earn the level 2 credential in a shortened timeframe. Come build community and earn a recognized teaching professional development credential! Filling out this form registers you for attending both days.
*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.
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.
*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.
Teaching is difficult and often an isolating experience. There are many mental health issues in academia, particularly related to the situation and the work. Yet, only student mental health is well studied and discussed. In this workshop, we explore faculty mental health, strategies for improving the environment, and address barriers to addressing concerns. Please note that this is not a self-help or “yoga your way out of stress” workshop and does have discussions of mental health issues and self-harm. While university resources are shared, this is an academic and professional development workshop, not medical or mental health advice. Join us to create community and talk about one of the most prevalent, but under-discussed, issues in academia!
*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.
This workshop has been postponed.
Whether individual or collective, trauma can have a significant impact on lives and how students (and instructors) show up and are able to engage in the classroom. In this workshop, we will explore the concept of trauma and how it applies to the classroom, recognize a few common trauma responses, investigate several educational best practices, expand our thinking with resilient pedagogy, and begin to apply these concepts to our own teaching. Together we will move beyond minimum legal requirements or accommodations to design and implement evidence-based instructional strategies in university education.
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This event has been postponed; please check back for a future offering.
Are you ready to take your next steps in engaging successfully in difficult classroom conversations and situations? In this leveled-up workshop, we will explore the elements of free speech in an educational context, investigate types of disruptions and situationally appropriate teaching responses, and analyze scenarios with colleagues. 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 third in a four-part workshop series on important conversations. Participants are encouraged – but not required – to engage with parts 1 and 2 before joining this session.
*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.
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.
*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.
