January 22
200 ATLAS

Write to Learn with Learning Logs
Rosalyn Zigmond, Instructor, Program for Writing and Rhetoric
This workshop will discuss strategies on how to incorporate written learning logs in any classroom, for any subject. We will discuss the differences between learning logs and journals, for example, and when to use them in different learning situations.

January 29
200 ATLAS

Disturbing Images, Mistaken Notions, and Forgivable Sins: The Challenges of Teaching about International Sex Work and Transnational Sex Trafficking
Robert Buffington, Associate Professor, Women Studies
Drawing from his personal classroom experiences, Professor Buffington discusses the perils of teaching
controversial topics, including common misconceptions and the ethical dilemma of maintaining
professional distance in the face of passionately committed students on one hand and student apathy on
the other.

February 5
200 ATLAS

Writing a Socratic Teaching Portfolio
Laura Border, Director, Graduate Teacher Program
This session provides a useful methodology to help you plan experiences, collect materials, and build the framework of your final teaching portfolio.

February 12
200 ATLAS

Humor in the Classroom
Barbara Fox, Professor, Linguistics
Professor Fox shares her own approach to humor in the classroom and draws from her experiences as a linguist to give you the courage to make your classrooms more fun.

February 19
Board Room
229 ATLAS

Putting Your Teaching Portfolio Together
Laura Border, Director, Graduate Teacher Program
Are you getting ready to go on the job market? Are you wondering how your portfolio might compare with portfolios from other applicants? In this workshop we analyze and compare portfolios.

February 26
200 ATLAS

Returning to Community in Teaching and Graduate Study
Marty Bickman, Professor, Department of English
Professor Bickman discusses the harmful effects of narrow notions of invidualism and solitary work and how we can transcend them through wider conceptions based on Deweyan notions of participatory democracy and shared intellectual effort.

March 5
200 ATLAS

Decentering Teacher Authority to Improve Student Learning
Danica Trifunovic, Instructor, French & Italian
The presenter discusses theory on establishing voice and authority and uses her experiences with an experimental third year class to provide concrete examples.

March 12
200 ATLAS

A Revolution in Construction
Michael Eisenberg, Professor, Computer Science
Professor Eisenberg will discuss how a revolution in technology may be used to allow students to produce 3-D objects for the classroom.