The staff at WORLD: The David and Leighan Rinker Center for International Learning cordially invites you to its annual Open House @ WORLD. October 18, 2017 4:30-6:00 pm WORLD 635 N. Bert Fish Rd Grab a glass of wine and hors d’oeuvres Find out how WORLD can support your interests in international learning Meet faculty and staff […]
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The Brown Center for Faculty Innovation and Excellence has launched a semesterly email newsletter! The newsletter contains information about the center including, An introduction to our Brown Teacher-Scholar Fellows News and events from the Center Upcoming teaching and learning conferences Dates and deadlines for Center programs If you didn’t receive a copy in your inbox read
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The 2017-18 Faculty Spotlight series will kick-off on October 4 with a presentation by Dr. Pamela Cappas-Toro who will speak on Teaching a Gendered Language in a Maximum Security Men’s Prison: Curricular Approaches to Learning Spanish and Latin American Studies Date: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 Time: 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm (lunch served at 11:30) Location: Lynn Business
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Here’s an excerpt from an essay, penned by Kenneth Ruscio during his recent presidency at William & Lee University. The essay was published in 2013 in Peer Review, the premier publication of Association of American Colleges & Universities, AAC&U. Teaching introductory courses (and I mean really teaching them), conversing with colleagues outside your field on a
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The Brown Center for Faculty Innovation and Excellence is offering a multi-part course design (or redesign) workshop series. Through this engaging, hands-on series of workshops, participants will use backward design to develop innovative courses that … foster transformative learning experiences. engage students with complex questions. use a dilemma, issue or question as an organizational principle. clearly
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The International Society for the Exploration of Teaching and Learning (ISETL) is holding its conference in Orlando from October 12-14, 2017. Register before Friday Early bird registration rates and discounted hotel rates expire on Friday, so register today! Registration Hotel Conference program
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On Tuesday, September 26, 2017, Stetson University will celebrate its annual tradition of taking a day from classes to explore the core values of personal growth, intellectual development and global citizenship. The 2017 Values Day speaker is Irshad Manji. She is the Founder and Director of the Moral Courage Project, which equips students to make values-based
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As we busily prepare for hurricane Irma, you might be thinking how you are going to manage your courses. After all, you really just started getting into the groove, right? Some things you might want to consider … Make a communication plan with your students. Its likely we will miss at least a few
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The National Center for Science and Civic Engagement (NCSCE) at Stony Brook University has received a grant to establish and advance robust partnerships between indigenous peoples and local formal and informal educators to improve educational outcomes for all students, promote cultural understanding, and foster long-term collaborations on issues of common concern. The project will extend
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SQUARES HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED FOR 2017-18. APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED. The Teaching Squares Project offers faculty at any stage in their career an opportunity to gain new insight into their own teaching through a non-evaluative process of reciprocal classroom observation and self-reflection. The four faculty in each “square” visit one another’s classes over the course of
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