Teaching Naked: Designing Assignments for More Active Classrooms
Thursday, Feb 27, 3 pm Eastern / 12 noon Pacific
Coming up this week at DCAL:
New Faculty Luncheon, 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Focused on helping new faculty jump start their teaching program, these lunch time sessions will address topics on which faculty have concerns. This week’s session will focus on handling difficult conversations in the classroom. Gabrielle Lucke from the
Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity will be with us to guide our discussion. We will discuss the kinds of comments that may trigger reactions from either you or your students, topics that may be challenging to talk about, and some strategies to help
you and your students engage in respectful dialogue across differences.
Talking about Language and Culture-Monthly Discussion Group, 2:30pm - 4:00pm, Thursday, February 27, 2014
Come share ideas about teaching languages and culture, get to know each other better, and create a community of teachers who care about language. this week, The conversation on drill continues. Topics will include: debriefing of the Skype meeting with Kenyon
College Language Intensive program's director, a new Drill Introductory Drill Workshop format starting in the Spring 2014 and How to write meaningful drills – sharing ideas. Light refreshments will be provided, please register here: http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event.php?id=538334
Have a great week!
elaine