Past Events and Programs

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.

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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.

2013

Fall 2013

2014

Fall 2014
Summer 2014
Spring 2014
Winter 2014

2015

Fall 2015
Summer 2015
Spring 2015
Winter 2015

2016

Fall 2016
Summer 2016
Spring 2016
Winter 2016

2017

Winter 2017
Spring 2017
Summer 2017
Fall 2017

2018

Winter 2018
Spring 2018
Summer 2018
Fall 2018

2019

Winter 2019
Spring 2019
Summer 2019
Fall 2019

2020

Winter 2020
Spring 2020
Summer 2020
Fall 2020

2021

Winter 2021
Spring 2021
Summer 2021
Fall 2021

2022

Winter 2022
Spring 2022
Summer 2022
Fall 2022

2023

Winter 2023

Spring 2023

Summer 2023

Fall 2023

2024

Winter 2024

Spring 2024

Summer 2024


Past Events

Teaching Square: Encouraging Self-Regulated Learning

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 ...

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Teaching Square: Interdisciplinary Sustainability

Teaching 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 ...

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Teaching Square: Preparing for Your Official Classroom Observation

Teaching 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 ...

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Teaching Square: Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Teaching 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 ...

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Teaching Squares -Inclusive Pedagogy – CANCELED

Teaching 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 ...

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Teaching Squares – An Opportunity to Observe and Reflect

Teaching 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 ...

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Teaching Squares – An Opportunity to Observe and Reflect

Teaching 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 ...

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Teaching Squares: A Reciprocal Observation Experience

Teaching 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 ...

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Teaching Talks for Adjunct Faculty

Teaching 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 ...

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Teaching to Transgress, by bell hooks

Teaching 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 ...

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Last Updated August 21, 2024