Welcome

What is the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), and what can it do for you? Bring your lunch and learn about the various CTL opportunities and resources available to you as a member of the Claremont Colleges community! Faculty co-director Sadie will give a brief introduction to the CTL mission, programming, and staff. There will also be time for questions and conversation.

You may RSVP for a recording of the presentation portion of the event.

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The arrival of new platforms like ChatGPT hit academia by storm this past winter. Suddenly, technology had evolved far enough to produce plausible academic prose in a variety of genres. Why should our students write essays if software could do it for them? If we look past the alarmist headlines, we see that generative AI invites us to reflect on questions of concern to us all. Why do we assign writing in our seminars? What do we want students to learn? How are new technologies changing writing and reading processes—on our campuses and beyond? This workshop brings together faculty to reflect on current developments and articulate theoretically-informed principles for our assignments and our teaching. The goal is to give participants a framework to guide the choices they will make in the weeks and months to come.

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Keynote #1: “Building Climate Resilience through Education,” V. Ramanathan, emeritus professor, University of California at San Diego, and founding chair, Bending the Curve: Climate Education for All
FMI: https://www.hmc.edu/hixon-center/broadening-participation-in-undergraduate-climate-education/

This one-day conference will convene climate experts,teacher-scholars from other disciplines and community partners to discuss thefuture of climate education for undergraduates. The goal of the conferenceis to expand the number of faculty involved in climate education and for thosealready involved to deepen their understanding of and appreciation for thestrengths that multiple perspectives bring to addressing the challenges ofclimate. A theme throughout the conference will be broadeningparticipation in climate education on our campuses and in our communities.

Register here: https://ncsce.wildapricot.org/event-5183218

FMI: https://www.hmc.edu/hixon-center/broadening-participation-in-undergraduate-climate-education/

Inclusive teaching, for me, means fostering a sense of belonging so that students are willing to offer their unique contributions to our collective learning. It also means creating conditions for interconnectedness so that students value the unique contributions of their peers. In this workshop, we will explore classroom activities that “draw forth the best in those gathered,” including “the best of what it means to be a human being” (Pompa 2013, 23). Concrete examples/best practices will be culled from the scholarship on teaching and learning, as well as from participants’ own experiments with inclusive pedagogies.

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