Join other faculty preparing for fall in DLINQ’s series of workshops this summer. Titles include Intro to the Midd Course Design Rubric and Building Community in Online Courses. See event listings at https://dlinq.middcreate.net/events/
They are also offering a design camp for shifting existing courses online. Sign up at https://dlinq.middcreate.net/camp-design-online-preview-sign-up/
For other Teaching Remotely resources see https://dlinq.middcreate.net/course-continuity/
This summer, the Inclusive Practitioners Program (IPP) will pilot Anti-Racism as Everyday Practice, a series of eight 90-minute workshops for faculty and staff. Each of the eight workshops will be offered in both July and August, and the workshops will also be included in the broader IPP lineup for the 2020-2021 academic year. The series includes the following offerings:
The workshops are open to all Middlebury faculty and non-student staff. Session descriptions and registration information are available online. Questions about the series can be directed to Renee Wells.
This spring’s Learning Institute in the CTLR will feature sessions on reflecting about the experience teaching this spring, building community in the classroom, choosing to teach in person or remote in the fall, and intentional anti-racist education.
The main goal of the institute is to bring faculty and staff together to reflect on the challenges we all are facing as we do our work in these difficult times and to share helpful ideas, approaches, and resources as we seek to realize our goals.
The institute is a complement to the programs that the Office of Digital Learning and Inquiry (DLINQ) is offering to help faculty prepare for teaching in the fall of 2020.
All sessions will be held on Tuesday, June 30 by Zoom. See additional details and register.
Update: Missed the event? See program description and links to available resources (Middlebury community access)
30th Annual Teaching & Writing Retreat: Slow Teaching
Tuesday and Wednesday, August 22 & 23
Mountain Top Inn & Resort, Chittenden, Vermont
Registration Now Open
Slow Teaching: What can you do to have students commit to learning?
What kinds of discussions, presentations, research work and writing are you engaging students with to dig deeper into the subject at-hand? How do you measure student results? What are some questions and challenges you wish to share about your work with students?
Slow teaching is a practice and a political movement. The Slow Teaching movement grows from the slow food movement, which focuses on the importance of work-life balance (stress), challenges the industrialization and mass production of food with local solutions, and is a call to action that challenges corporate culture. These characteristics inform slow teaching whose principles and professional practices, say Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber, in The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy, are ways “to alleviate work stress, preserve humanistic education, and resist the corporate university.”
We wish to inspire conversations about engaging students and each other; we wish to understand the challenges we face given the current context of higher education, balancing the local and the national, the political and the personal, and our institution’s goals with our individual visions as educators.
The retreat will feature plenary sessions on our theme as well as smaller workshops that will offer approaches to advance our students’ ability to write well, think creatively and critically, and safely navigate challenging ideas and perspectives.
More information about the retreat will be forthcoming; if you would like to register, you may do so using this link: http://sites.middlebury.edu/teachingandwriting/registration/
Remember to submit your application by midnight on Friday, 2/27 to present in the Spring Student Symposium this April! Check out the video below to hear from fellow students who have presented why they would do it again.
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Dear Students and Colleagues:
Join us in celebrating the diversity of a Middlebury education! The 2015 Spring Student Symposium will begin in the Mahaney Center for the Arts on Thursday night, April 9 with a keynote talk by Kevin Murungi ’01, the Director of Human Rights and Foreign Policy at Global Kids, followed by a reception and student presentations. The Symposium continues all day Friday, April 10 with presentations of student work in McCardell Bicentennial Hall.
We invite students from all four years and in all departments and programs to participate. If you have done research in a class, independently, or through an internship; if you would like to read, show, or perform a creative work; if you have a project to present in a poster or oral format, please apply to present your academic work! The application deadline is February 27, 2015.
More information and the application are available at the Undergraduate Research website at http://go.middlebury.edu/sym.
Students: Your application must include a project description (200 words) that has been approved by your faculty or staff sponsor.
Faculty and Staff: Please encourage students to apply.
We look forward to seeing you all at the Symposium!
Pat Manley, Professor of Geology
Lisa Gates, Associate Dean for Fellowships and Research
for the Spring Symposium Planning Committee
…the Symposium encapsulates Middlebury at its best. It was valuable for me to prepare and then present in a professional setting. An equally valuable component of the Symposium is how it celebrates students work. I am grateful that Middlebury has put time, energy and thought into a creating a day that celebrates all that goes on here– much of which could go unseen and unheard.
— 2014 Symposium Participant