This semester, we continue our professional learning series focused on our Online Teaching Principle for Communicating with Students. At the center of this deep-dive project, we’re asking this question: how do our communication tools, spaces, and methodologies promote student growth and student agency?
Our Principle for Communication with students encourages many practices: from communicating effectively in weekly announcements to maintaining open, dynamic 3rd spaces. This semester, we explore:
Dialoging in End Comments: Feedback on Writing Can Be a Conversation, Monday March 14h 1:00-2:30pm in Zoom
Verbs, Voice, and Grammar (of Canvas): Speaking to Students Through Course Design Decisions, Monday April 11th 1:00-2:30pm in Zoom
First Impressions, Fourth Impressions: Communicating in Community Weeks 0-3, Thursday May 12th 3:30-5:00pm in Zoom
These discussions are interactive with opportunities to explore your own teaching, share ideas, and build plans in a collaborative space. We pause for quiet and deliberate hands-on application, so even if you interact with the video or podcast later, you can still access our Google Docs and contribute your communication practices (listening is FLEX eligible; Letters faculty who contribute to the Doc may claim remuneration).
Hope to see you there!