Center for Teaching and Learning
Fostering open exchange about teaching and learning among faculty and staff at Hampshire College
The resources on this page are still available to you. But, the Center has been renamed – The Teaching and Learning Initiative, or TLI. To find resources from TLI, you can log in to the TLI course design workshop at
https://moodle.hampshire.edu/course/view.php?id=7693
or go to the TLI community web site (cws) at https://moodle.hampshire.edu/course/view.php?id=7413
Click here for upcoming events and workshops
GIS Librarian Becky Seifried will be leading a crash course on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for the Humanities and Fine Arts at DuBois Library. The workshop is meant for both students and faculty. For more information on the November 4th workshop, go to https://libcal.library.umass.edu/event/5858392.
Announcing Our Student Fellowship Mixer!
Happy October from 5CollBL/DH! We’re excited to share the news of this year’s Student Fellowship Mixer. We welcome faculty working in DH and undergraduate students in the Five Colleges curious about our 2019-2020 Digital Humanities Fellowship to come mingle and learn about what the fellowship program has to offer. The mixer is scheduled for Thursday, October 17, from 4:30pm-6:30pm at Five Colleges, Inc. (97 Spring St, Amherst). Please share widely in your circles and with any undergraduate students in the Five Colleges you think might be interested in attending.
The Chronicle has published a guide to help you reach all students. It can be found here.
We are sure you will find something useful in the guide regardless of your current teaching strategies!
This self directed guide for course design by L. Dee Fink is excerpted from his his book “Creating Significant Learning Experiences,” which you can read online. The guide has a fair amount of background that makes a case for backwards design. Toward the back of the guide there are worksheets to help you plan your course in a way that keeps your learning goals, teaching and learning activities, and your assessment aligned.
Join the CTL for a Scholarly Writing Retreat for Hampshire College Faculty and Staff on Monday, June 3 – Thursday, June 6, 2019, 9:30am to 12:30 pm in the FPH Lounge.
Facilitated by local writing coach, Cathy Luna, each three-hour writing session will begin with goal setting and end with a short debriefing and a look ahead. Participants are invited to sign up for a 30-minute individual consultation with Cathy, to take place during one of the morning sessions. Consultations can focus on writing process and/or time management questions, or on your scholarly writing, fellowship applications, reappointment and promotion materials, or any other writing you would like to discuss. Please sign up at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0B4CABA62CA5F85-scholarly
Please direct questions to Kristen Luschen at kluschen@hampshire.edu.
The CTL has created some resources to help you develop the best collaboration with your TA or TA’s. Some tips for imagining and negotiating their roles – the “Teaching Assistants” page is under “Teaching Resources.”
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Lunch will be provided at noon
To register for one or both workshops, email Shannon Thorin, Assistant Dean of Faculty.
The first month of class is a critical time to set the tone for the semester and foster student participation in critical discussions. In this session, we will review key inclusive practices that assist with this. Then, we will take a closer look at what it means for students to be full participants in the course, with an eye toward how we hold space for different viewpoints. In this session, we will reflect on our own syllabi and projects, with a full participation lens, and work through particular dynamics that may arise in whole class and small group discussions, from both our vantage points as faculty and from the viewpoints of students.
This workshop will be facilitated by Becky Wai-Ling Packard, professor of psychology and education at Mt. Holyoke College and author of Successful STEM Mentoring Initiatives for Underrepresented Students: A research-based guide for faculty and administrators. Packard has served as the Director of the Teaching and Learning Initiative program, Associate Dean of Faculty, and Director of the Weissman Center for Leadership at Mt. Holyoke College.
Before the fall semester begins, come explore the issues involved in negotiating and holding clear expectations and requirements around student accommodations. Be prepared with a system that meets student need without compromising your course or overly taxing your time. We’ll have a general discussion and include uncovering your concerns, articulating your standards, writing a syllabus statement, and developing strategies/using the OARS Holistic Learning Program toolbox for contingency planning with students.
The workshop will be facilitated by:
Milo Bezark, Holistic Learning Project Alumni Fellow
Aaron Ferguson, Director of Accessibility Resources and Services, Office of Accessibility Resources and Services
Kristen Luschen, Dean of Multicultural Education and Inclusion and Co-Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning.