Description:

This is an online workshop. You will receive a link via email to the Zoom meeting link upon registration and prior to the beginning of the workshop. Please use your Northwestern Zoom account. 

Workshop Description: 

This workshop gives participants the chance to explore a variety of strategies for managing difficult content in the classroom. By discussing sample scenarios and course policies, participants will come away with tools for navigating course topics that might warrant content warnings or illicit controversial or unpredictable reactions from students.

This workshop will also discuss the concept of a classroom community and how TAs and instructors can better facilitate spaces where challenging but productive conversations can take place.

Workshop Facilitators:

Caitlin Monroe is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the history department. She studies how practices of history education in Western Uganda have evolved over the course of the 19th-20th century. She has been a TA at Northwestern for a variety of courses and she will be teaching her own course on the global history of the year 1948 in the spring. She is particularly interested in thinking about creative courses designs for introductory history classes and in discussions about building inclusive and active classrooms.

Samantha Freeman is a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Screen Cultures department. Her dissertation traces how television represents sexual violence in an effort to better understand how narratives have changed over time. She has TAed a variety of media courses in her time at Northwestern and will be teaching #MeToo Media, a course she designed through the Searle Teaching Certificate program, this summer. She is passionate about feminist pedagogy and is especially interested in how we as educators can best design inclusive and safe classrooms for our students.