Description:

Graduate and Postdoctoral Workshop
Building Community in the STEM Classroom*

Thursday, February 25, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Searle Center Library
Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching
627 Dartmouth Place
Evanston, IL

Workshop Description: 

How can we build community in the STEM classroom that respects and affirms students’ diverse experiences? In this workshop, we focus on three aspects crucial for building community: learning about students, establishing inclusive frameworks for classroom activity, and incorporating cooperative, active learning techniques. Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on both personal qualities/behaviors and instructional approaches to create a strong foundation for building classroom community.

Workshop Facilitators:

Tracy Dobie is a Ph.D. candidate in Learning Sciences (in the School of Education and Social Policy) focusing on issues of motivation and equity in mathematics education.

Renee French is a 6th year Ph.D. student in Earth and Planetary Sciences studying tectonic features on the Moon and crustal magnetization of Mars.

*STEM Workshops are part of CIRTL at Northwestern which serves graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to improve undergraduate learning in STEM.