{"id":7076,"date":"2017-08-25T16:40:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T20:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/?p=7076"},"modified":"2022-04-05T11:27:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T15:27:11","slug":"teaching-circles-and-squares-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/2017\/08\/7076\/","title":{"rendered":"Circles\u00a0and Squares are back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1408_NewFacultyRoadmap.pdf\">Circles<\/a>\u00a0and Squares are back!<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Inquiry Circles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stetson University supports teacher-scholar development, professional\/practitioner-scholar development, and curricular\/co-curricular collaborations through the award of Inquiry Circle mini-grants ($500). Stetson University faculty members and Campus Life &amp; Student Success staff are invited to submit a proposal for an inquiry circle mini-grant.<\/p>\n<p>A wide variety of ideas qualify for consideration on inclusive pedagogues including team-\/problem-\/project-based learning, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceri.msu.edu\/t-shaped-professionals\/\">designing the T-shaped student<\/a>, values-based or <a href=\"http:\/\/jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu\/toolbox\/whatisit.htm\">authentic assessment<\/a>, learning partnerships, sustainability, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aacu.org\/leap\/hips\">high impact educational practices<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cast.org\/our-work\/about-udl.html\">universal design<\/a>, learning outcomes, culturally-inclusive pedagogy, reflective learning, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaeebl.org\/\">e-portfolios<\/a>, intercultural learning, leadership, well-being, course design\/re-design, collaborative learning spaces, etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&lt;&lt;Apply for an\u00a0Inquiry Circle&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Teaching Squares:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The <strong>Teaching Squares Project<\/strong>\u00a0offers 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 \u201csquare\u201d agree to visit one another\u2019s classes over the course of a semester and then to meet to discuss what they\u2019ve learned. The purpose of a\u00a0<strong>Teaching Square<\/strong>\u00a0is to open up new spaces for reflection and conversation about teaching.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&lt;&lt;Apply for an\u00a0Teaching Square&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circles\u00a0and Squares are back! Inquiry Circles: Stetson University supports teacher-scholar development, professional\/practitioner-scholar development, and curricular\/co-curricular collaborations through the award of Inquiry Circle mini-grants ($500). Stetson University faculty members and Campus Life &amp; Student Success staff are invited to submit a proposal for an inquiry circle mini-grant. A wide variety of ideas qualify for consideration on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,1],"tags":[116,110],"class_list":["post-7076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communities-of-practice","category-faculty-excellence","tag-circles","tag-teaching-squares"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7076"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14172,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076\/revisions\/14172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}