Every quarter, the Faculty Commons publishes a program with all our events and additional information in a *.PDF format. Past events published on our website are listed below.
Every quarter, the Faculty Commons publishes a program with all our events and additional information in a *.PDF format. Past events published on our website are listed below.
Programs (PDF)
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Past Events
Teaching Square: Encouraging Self-Regulated Learning
This teaching square will introduce you to the secrets of self-regulated learning using strategies through reflection activities. How to teach students how to be self-regulated learners is a frequent question we have as teachers. This teaching square will introduce you to ways to enhance learning and create lifelong learners. Through this non-evaluative opportunity, you will ...
Read moreTeaching Square: Interdisciplinary Sustainability
This teaching square allows faculty to gain interdisciplinary perspectives on sustainability and insight from other faculty while integrating sustainability into their teaching. To start, we will review basic sustainability principles and interdisciplinary perspectives on this issue. With the support of other faculty, participants implement a sustainability lesson into one of their own courses. Conversations with ...
Read moreTeaching Square: Preparing for Your Official Classroom Observation
Will you have your performance review in winter or spring quarters? All adjunct faculty are required to complete a performance review during their 2nd and 5th quarters, and this process includes a classroom observation. In addition, all tenure-track faculty have their courses observed regularly. This Teaching Square will support participants as they prepare for their ...
Read moreTeaching Square: Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Meeting times will be determined by a poll of registered participants. You will be contacted by Archana by January 7 to complete the poll. In winter quarter, you can join fellow faculty members to learn from one another through a non-evaluative process of reciprocal classroom observation and self-reflection. The focus of this Teaching Square is ...
Read moreTeaching Squares -Inclusive Pedagogy – CANCELED
This workshop has been canceled. This Teaching Square is designed for faculty currently teaching in on-ground or hybrid courses. If you are teaching online, please see our Online Teaching Squares workshop. During this teaching square, you will first review current literature about inclusive teaching, discuss these with other participants, and then work to implement them ...
Read moreTeaching Squares – An Opportunity to Observe and Reflect
Registration closes April 10 so the group can begin planning for the 3 meeting dates during the quarter. Zoom remote participation will be an option for those meeting dates. Spring quarter, you can join fellow faculty members to observe and share reflections with one another in this non-evaluative process called a ‘Teaching Square.’ A Teaching ...
Read moreTeaching Squares – An Opportunity to Observe and Reflect
Registration closes April 10 so the group can begin planning for the 3 meeting dates during the quarter. Zoom remote participation will be an option for those meeting dates. In spring quarter, you can join fellow faculty members to observe and share reflections with one another in this non-evaluative process called a ‘Teaching Square.’ A ...
Read moreTeaching Squares: A Reciprocal Observation Experience
Whether you’re trying out something new with your class or you’d like feedback on one of your frequent practices, Teaching Squares is for you! Fall Quarter you can join fellow faculty members to observe and learn from one another in this non-evaluative process of reciprocal classroom observation and self-reflection. This means you will observe two ...
Read moreTeaching Talks for Adjunct Faculty
Curious to know what other instructors are doing in their on-ground or online classes? Would you like to get some fresh ideas and experiment with them in your class? Join us for one or both Teaching Talks this spring to discover new ideas with colleagues. These are two great presentations, designed particularly for adjunct faculty ...
Read moreTeaching to Transgress, by bell hooks
Are you wondering if your classroom practices unwittingly support, as hooks states, "White supremacist capitalist patriarchy?” Would you like to challenge essentialist notions that you have been taught are good but that are really just perpetuating capitalist white supremacy and instead engage teaching to transgress? Are you ready to confront your own teaching practices and ...
Read moreLast Updated August 21, 2024