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Creating Teaching Communities

When: Wednesday, November 2, 2022
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Where: > See description for location
Description: Creating Teaching Communities: A Fall and Spring Faculty Learning Community
Wednesday 11/2, 1:00-2:00 pm or Thursday 11/3, 2:00-3:00 pm
OFD Library 213

Facilitator: Katie Krafft
OFD Assistant Director, Assistant Professor, Crime and Justice Studies

During the period of remote teaching and learning in 2020-2021, the OFD ran a series of workshops called "Tour My Course," and as we all emerge back into in-person teaching and learning, many of us are re-examining what teaching and learning look and feel like. In that context, the "Tour My Course" format is taking on new dimensions, transforming into a cohort-based exchange. Convening initially in Fall 2022, participants will form small groups that will, in person and as small teaching communities, visit each other's classrooms in Spring 2023 to have the opportunity to think through our own teaching practices, learn from each other, consider what our own disciplines and practices can learn from the methodologies of others, and provide thoughtful, generative feedback.

The first meeting will be an opportunity to organize into small groups based on interests and teaching schedules and begin to plan the processes for Spring 2023, which may be different for each small cohort. It will also be an opportunity to clarify the benefits of forming such teaching communities, the forms of feedback and communication that facilitate productive and generative reflection, and our own visions of the impacts that this may have on our own practices, classrooms, and experiences of campus community overall. Faculty learning communities lead to multiple positive outcomes on both personal and professional levels, and this first meeting will be a space for us to envision those outcomes and the paths toward them. To make this opportunity as available as possible, we have scheduled two separate sessions of this initial meeting, in hopes of accommodating both MWF and TTh teaching schedules.

These initial meetings are intended to organize participation in an ongoing cohort that runs from November through May. Participation is limited to 15, and each small cohort will be made up of approximately 4-5. As the teaching cohorts will be physically visiting each other's classrooms in the Spring, the initial meetings will likewise be in-person. Each team will be supported by a small stipend that can be used for professional development (I.e. books and materials, organizing a speaker or talk, presentation at a conference, et al.).

To register, please email Ellen Mandly at emandly@umassd.edu and indicate which date you plan to attend. Questions should be directed to Katie Krafft ekrafft@umassd.edu
Topical Areas: Faculty, Faculty Development