Schedule & Registration

Fall 2024

Our fall schedule is now available!

November 22 - Teacher-Centered Teaching

In the push for student-centered teaching, it can be easy to lose sight of the fact that instructors have needs too. Lindsay Masland advocates for an approach called “teacher-centered teaching,” in which instructors implement student-centered practices in concert with their own values and contexts. 

This is the third chat in a series inspired by Sarah Rose Cavanaugh’s “After a Tough Year for Classroom Innovation, It’s Time for a Reset” from The Chronicle of Higher Education. 

Moderators: Laura Saunders (Simmons University) and Melissa Wong (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
2:00 p.m. Eastern / 1:00 p.m. Central / 12:00 p.m. Mountain / 11:00 a.m. Pacific
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December 6 - From Framework to Orthodoxy (or You Can’t Question This)

Pedagogical best practices can offer invaluable guidance to instructors. However, what starts off as a set of guidelines to help guide our practice (e.g. growth mindset, trauma-informed pedagogy, even backward design) often gets muddied through interpretation, boiled down to a set of catchphrases, or calcified into an immutable approach that can leave instructors feeling confused and even constrained. In this session we’ll explore some of these concepts and how we can understand their intent, question them carefully, and apply them usefully.

Moderators: Laura Saunders (Simmons University) and Melissa Wong (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
2:00 p.m. Eastern / 1:00 p.m. Central / 12:00 p.m. Mountain / 11:00 a.m. Pacific
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