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2023 Events
Quantitative Reasoning Learning Outcomes Workshop #2
Thursday, April 6, 2023
GEIC Learning Outcomes Workshops Winter 2023
The new General Education model seeks to consider learning as a holistic and integrative process. Rather than organizing requirements by discipline, this model is designed around the skills and attributes that we want our students to have. Courses from several departments would fall into each category, and courses from each department would fall under multiple categories. In other words, we hope to get input from many departments and disciplines as we develop these outcomes!
Learning outcomes for Quantitative Reasoning were initially drafted by the General Education Development Committee (GEDC). The purpose of this workshop is to further define our aspirations for students who complete courses that fall into the Quantitative Reasoning category of the new curriculum.
Quantitative Reasoning Learning Outcomes Workshop #1
Monday, April 3, 2023
GEIC Learning Outcomes Workshops Winter 2023
The new General Education model seeks to consider learning as a holistic and integrative process. Rather than organizing requirements by discipline, this model is designed around the skills and attributes that we want our students to have. Courses from several departments would fall into each category, and courses from each department would fall under multiple categories. In other words, we hope to get input from many departments and disciplines as we develop these outcomes!
Learning outcomes for Quantitative Reasoning were initially drafted by the General Education Development Committee (GEDC). The purpose of this workshop is to further define our aspirations for students who complete courses that fall into the Quantitative Reasoning category of the new curriculum.
What's the Deal with Trigger Warnings? A Brainstorming Session on Effective Strategies for Supporting Student Wellbeing and Resilience
Wednesday, March 28, 2023
First we were told we should include trigger warnings for disturbing or upsetting material in our courses, allowing students to prepare themselves mentally and emotionally. Then we were told that trigger warnings didn't work-and, indeed, might actually be counterproductive to creating an effective learning environment. So what's the deal? And what the heck are we supposed to do when we're trying to teach challenging college-level content at a moment in time when nearly everything seems to have the potential to upset someone?
This session will provide an overview of some of the recent thinking on the topic, but will mainly be focused on crowdsourcing effective strategies for both supporting our students and enriching their intellectual development.
Burnout Resilience in Challenging Times
Friday, March 24, 2023
Guest Scholar, Dr. Rebecca Pope-Ruark, Georgia Tech
The last three years have been challenging, to say the very least, and the ongoing trauma of the pandemic and shake-ups on our campuses have impacted faculty, staff, and students. Many faculty and academic staff were on the edge of burnout before 2020, and the swings between in-person to remote and back again have tested the coping skills of the strongest faculty members. In this workshop, we will explore what burnout is, how to recognize it, and how to approach your work through the lenses of purpose and connection to spark burnout resilience.
Link to the Burnout Presentation
Burnout and Balance for Mid-Career Faculty
Guest Scholar, Dr. Rebecca Pope-Ruark, Georgia Tech
Academic work, especially at mid-career, can feel like a juggling act that never ends, and chronic stress can lead directly to burnout. Between teaching, research, service, mentoring, leadership, and the other kinds of often hidden labor, finding time and mental space for the work that is important but perhaps not urgent can be a major challenge. In this workshop, we'll discuss burnout and its causes, explore the idea of "work-work balance," and develop strategies for managing the often competing demands that arise in academic work.
Link to the Balance Presentation
Coaching Students through the Writing Process: An Interactive Workshop Led by Writing Center Peers and Professional Consultants
Friday, January 27, 2023
The writing process is not a formula or set of steps. Writing doesn't behave that way. Instead, it is more like herding wild horses into a corral or building a cathedral with duct tape and scraps of wood from your neighbor's old garage. In this workshop, Writing Center peer tutors share an insider's view of the writing process from their experiences working with students in the midst of it. We'll unpack the process to reveal its varying shapes, natures, and interplay of creativity, courage, and practice. Most importantly, we'll share strategies that faculty can use to help students strengthen writing process efficacy in the context of any writing assignment.
Wicked Conversations Part 3: Exploring Wicked Course Design
Thursday, January 12, 2023
As a means of priming everyone for the work of the General Education Implementation Committee, the Harte Center is running a series of informal sessions on wicked problems and their implications for course design, teaching, and student work.
This third session will explore aspects of course design: if we want to graduate students who can respond to complex problems with a lot of moving parts, what are the implications of that for, say, text selection, or syllabus construction? Where and how does grading play a part? How do we hand agency over to students to allow them to develop their own skills?