[Uopatos] FW: TEP announcement of Steele workshop

Thu Feb 1 15:56:27 PST 2018

Hello, all. I’m forwarding this opportunity for a workshop with Claude Steele who will be here tomorrow. There is still space if folks are interested in attending this great opportunity. Please forward to folks.

Thank you. Rosa

Following his lecture, join us for

Building Diverse Community in the Classroom
with Professor Claude Steele
Week 4: Fri, Feb. 2
2:30-4:00pm
Price Science Commons Visualization Lab, Room B006
Register here<https://uoregon.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f08876024d7ae1834f7bb294c&id=d8cb898f83&e=36076c2447>

Subject: Last Chance: Classroom Dialogue Group, Teaching Awards, and More
From: The Teaching Engagement Program <tep at uoregon.edu<mailto:tep at uoregon.edu>>
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To: <derose at uoregon.edu<mailto:derose at uoregon.edu>>
Date: January 29, 2018 at 7:01:11 AM PST

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[High Impact Change]

We have a few spaces left... consider joining us!

Working Group on Classroom Dialogue: Applications Open for Faculty-Grad Student Pairs

As part of the University’s upcoming Freedom of Expression series, the Teaching Engagement Program in partnership with the Graduate School and UO’s award-winning interactive theater troupe Rehearsals for Life will form a small teaching development cohort dedicated to classroom dialogue, seeking synthesis between openness and rigor, inclusion and respectfulness.

To incentivize participation and signal the importance of this working group, each participant of will receive $300 (professional development funds for faculty and stipends for students).

Research links core goals of a university education—developing a disposition toward complex thinking, problem-solving skills, even civic mindedness—to students’ meaningful interactions with diverse peer groups that challenge their preconceptions. But for faculty and GEs teaching in a volatile and divisive national context, asking socially urgent questions and initiating dialogue that may destabilize students’ assumptions may seem risky.

We seek applications from faculty-graduate student teacher pairs, enriching the possibilities for lasting mentorship relationships and giving participants a partner to help share material with other departmental colleagues. (Members of a pair needn't have done any prior work together or be part of a teaching team; graduate students should have some teaching experience and expect further teaching at UO). We anticipate a 2018 cohort of 16 members, representing eight departments, that will:

  *   Develop proactive strategies and tools for cultivating inclusive classrooms with an emphasis on building students’ reflective, critical, and constructive thinking across contexts;

  *   Develop responsive strategies and tools for facilitating challenging or heated moments in the classroom with an emphasis on balancing development of students’ listening skills with strengthening their agency, voice, and resilience;

  *   Create professional development materials for sharing and promoting the above strategies and tools to home departments and programs and then through an open-invitation teaching workshop in spring term.
Applications due Friday, February 2 [new deadline]. Brief online application form is here<https://uoregon.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f08876024d7ae1834f7bb294c&id=76879157f5&e=36076c2447>.
Group workshops will be 1:00-3:00pm on these Fridays: February 16, March 2, and March 16. Refreshments will be served.
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Teaching Award Nomination Deadlines Approaching

Williams Instructional Proposals<https://uoregon.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f08876024d7ae1834f7bb294c&id=2001761aea&e=36076c2447> –The Williams Council invites proposals from individuals or groups that allow teachers the opportunity to renew, broaden, restructure, or develop classes and curricula that actively engage undergraduate students in the learning process. Proposals due February 1.

Williams Fellows<https://uoregon.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f08876024d7ae1834f7bb294c&id=dc993fc07d&e=36076c2447> – The council seeks nominations for excellent teachers who have demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to undergraduate education by challenging their students academically, creating an engaged and inclusive learning environment, striving to improve the learning process, and fostering interdepartmental collaboration. Nominations due February 1.

The Distinguished Teaching Awards<https://uoregon.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f08876024d7ae1834f7bb294c&id=29d68d9ed4&e=36076c2447> – The university’s highest teaching honors, this suite of six awards recognizes early-career and senior faculty members who demonstrate excellence in the classroom. Special awards are given for exceptional online instruction and pedagogical innovation. Nominations due February 9.
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Nominations Open for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising Awards

In recognition of the significant role undergraduate advising/mentoring plays in fostering academic excellence at the University of Oregon, the Division of Undergraduate Studies and the All-Campus Advising Association (ACAA) collaborate on an awards program to honor faculty and professional advisers at UO.

One faculty advisor and one professional advisor will each receive a $2000 award.

Nominate a great advisor for their important work today<https://uoregon.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f08876024d7ae1834f7bb294c&id=0d82d2409e&e=36076c2447>!<https://uoregon.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f08876024d7ae1834f7bb294c&id=4814975044&e=36076c2447>
Nominations due February 23.

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[https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f08876024d7ae1834f7bb294c/images/c14a7986-f138-4578-9b79-91d981d388bb.jpg]An Afternoon with Joy Harjo: Poetry Reading and Book Signing
Week 4: Fri, Feb 2
3:00-4:30pm, Straub 156

Joy Harjo’s visit is one of the signature events for the 2017-18 Common Reading program centered around The Round House by Louise Erdrich.

Harjo is an internationally known poet, writer, performer, and saxophone player of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. Her eight books of poetry include Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, and She Had Some Horses. Harjo’s memoir Crazy Brave won the PEN USA Literary Award for Creative Non-Fiction and the American Book Award. She is the recipient of the 2015 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets; a Guggenheim Fellowship; the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America; and the United States Artist Fellowship.

Harjo holds the Chair of Excellence in Creative Writing, Department of English, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

The campus visit is sponsored by the Native American Studies Program; Common Reading, Division of Undergraduate Studies; and the Center for the Study of Women in Society, in collaboration with Eugene Public Library.

CAMPUS PARTNER EVENTS

UO to Host Groundbreaking Social Psychologist Claude M. Steele Friday, Feb. 2
Professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and groundbreaking researcher on stereotype threat, Claude Steele will give a lunchtime lecture, “The Science of Diverse Community.” This event is part of the African American Workshop and Lecture Series hosted by the Office of President Michael H. Schill and organized by the Division of Equity and Inclusion.

Lunch is served at noon. The lecture will begin at 12:15.
Learn more and register here<https://uoregon.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f08876024d7ae1834f7bb294c&id=79fc9664ae&e=36076c2447>.

Following his lecture, join us for

Building Diverse Community in the Classroom
with Professor Claude Steele
Week 4: Fri, Feb. 2
2:30-4:00pm
Price Science Commons Visualization Lab, Room B006
Register here<https://uoregon.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f08876024d7ae1834f7bb294c&id=d8cb898f83&e=36076c2447>

During this open-format workshop and classroom strategy session, Professor Steele will help us think about how his research can inform teaching choices. How can we develop more inclusive classes across the curriculum? What new pressures does he see impacting the classroom during a time of national political division and turbulence, and how can we prepare students to engage each other both openly and respectfully? How can courses that meet UO’s multicultural requirement play a role for developing the skill set of the campus community? Discussion will be facilitated by the Teaching Engagement Program and UO Science Literacy Program.

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Practicing Resistance: Becoming & Growing as an Ally

Hosted by the Center for the Study of Women and Society
with returning guest facilitator Janée Woods
Register here<https://uoregon.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f08876024d7ae1834f7bb294c&id=2677c5d1b7&e=36076c2447>

Resistance 101
Week 6: Mon, Feb 12
Three options: 9-11am; noon-2pm; 3-5pm
EMU Redwood Auditorium

In our Resistance 101 training, you will learn the basics of how to be an effective ally: how to intervene and stand up safely, appropriately, and constructively when you hear or see something racist, sexist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, homophobic, transphobic, or otherwise discriminatory on campus or anywhere in our community.
This training will help each of us examine our own privilege, our implicit biases, and practice developing dialogue and creating safe spaces on campus and in our community.

We hope everyone in attendance will come away from these trainings feeling more ready and able to take action to disrupt bullying and discriminatory behavior as they see it in the moment – to move from bystander to active ally.

Resistance 201
Week 6: Tues, Feb 13
Attendance at Resistance 101 (either last year or this year) is a prerequisite for this training.
Two options: 9am-noon; 1pm-4pm
EMU Redwood Auditorium

In our Resistance 201 training, we will take a deeper dive into the issues raised in our 101 training. We will ground our resistance and allyship in our campus, local, and national climates and context; learn more about the structural systems of power that are at work today and how they manifest in our everyday lives; and work to understand on deep and personal levels the ways in which white supremacy, misogyny, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, and other systems of oppression affect those who are targeted, as well as all of us.
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CU-Boulder's Noah Finkelstein to Visit Campus, Discuss STEM Education and More
Thanks to funding from the AAU to support excellence in teaching, UO is hosting Dr. Noah Finkelstein for a campus visit Monday, February 5. Finkelstein is a professor of physics at the University of Colorado-Boulder and a nationally recognized leader in discipline-based education research as well as studying and effecting institutional change.
Please register for any of the following three discussions<https://uoregon.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f08876024d7ae1834f7bb294c&id=8270b676a4&e=36076c2447> you'd like to attend:
CU’s Center for STEM Learning
10:00-10:50am, 147 Willamette
What programs are found under this umbrella, and what can we learn about this model that is applicable to UO? Learn more about CU's program here.<https://uoregon.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f08876024d7ae1834f7bb294c&id=7de9bbb186&e=36076c2447>

CU’s Teaching Quality Framework Initiative
3:00-3:45pm, Price Science Commons Visualization Lab, Room B006
How is CU looking at the Evaluation of Teaching, and what can we learn from this model to inform our Senate Task Force currently working on this topic. Learn more about the Quality Framework here.<https://uoregon.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f08876024d7ae1834f7bb294c&id=6ca53514a2&e=36076c2447>
Physics Educational Transformation at a Critical Time: The Promises of Disciplinary Engagement
4:00-4:50pm, 125 McKenzie
Significant, perhaps unprecedented, attention is being paid to the needs for transformation of STEM education at the undergraduate level.  This talk examines how higher education STEM disciplines, and physics departments in particular, are positioned to contribute to these discussions. Topics will include:

  *   Growth of the physics education research (PER) program at CU-Boulder;

  *   Understanding of student reasoning to study and transform our introductory through upper division courses;

  *   How our environments do and do not support women in physics;

  *   Examination of the data regarding teaching physics through a massively open online course (MOOC).
Please register for any of these discussions<https://uoregon.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f08876024d7ae1834f7bb294c&id=5aedb077b2&e=36076c2447> you'd like to attend.

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