Inclusive Teaching in STEM √ (DATE CHANGED!)
Create welcoming, encouraging, and supportive STEM classes!
Location
Engineering : 102
Date & Time
January 23, 2018, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Description
How do we make our STEM classes
welcoming, encouraging, and supportive for our diverse students today? Join
your colleagues for a discussion of evidence-based teaching practices that help
all our students feel included and motivated—thus fostering their success. We
will use ideas in the two papers below as a starting point for our
conversation—please read them in advance.
- Killpack, T. L., & Melón, L. C. (2016). Toward inclusive STEM classrooms: What personal role do faculty play? CBE Life Sciences Education, 15(3), es3. http://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.16-01-0020
- Aguilar, L., Walton, G., & Wieman, C. (2014). Psychological insights for improved physics teaching. Physics Today, 67(5), 43-49. https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2383
Lunch will be provided to all registered participants, please click “I
Can Attend” below to reserve your seat for this session. Please email fdc@umbc.edu
to note any dietary restrictions (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, food
allergies, etc.) by Tuesday, January 16. The deadline to register
for this event is the earlier of Tuesday, January 16 or when the
event reaches capacity. Please email fdc@umbc.edu to be added to a wait list if the event is full. If you have registered and find that you can no longer attend, please kindly release your spot so that others may attend.
√ Counts toward ALIT Certificate
