Workshop Overview

This workshop will give you the opportunity to work together to transform teaching and learning in your courses. These changes provide opportunities for reflection, learning new techniques and strategies, and engaging with others to transform teaching.

Over the course of the workshop, we will engage in a series of activities that will help you think about your course from the student learning perspective. You will learn about pedagogical techniques by engaging in them, not just by hearing about them. You will leave the workshop having begun to (re)design your course and with an action plan and resources for continuing the process.

Workshop Goals

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Effectively incorporate high-impact practices into courses
• Define locally relevant sustainability and social justice issues that are relevant for your campus and surrounding community
• Use relevant issues and skills and habits from your discipline to engage diverse learners in sustainability and social justice education.
• Use the backward design process to (re)design a course

Expectations

In order to achieve the goals of this workshop, participants are expected to:

• By the workshop, read articles below in preparation for discussion during the workshop:
• National League of Cities State of the Cities Report, 2018
• Cash et al., 2006, Scale and Cross Scale Dynamics: Governance and Information in a Multilevel World
  
• Optional Additional Reading:
• What's Next Atlanta, 10 challenges for the Atlanta Region
• Social Justice Content Standards (optional, good read for reflection on the skills and habits of social justice)

• During the workshop, participate in all sessions, develop and submit an action plan, and complete a workshop evaluation;
• After the workshop, complete a follow-up survey as requested.
• Please bring a computer if you are able, it helps us track your progress and refine our program, but we will have some print-outs available.

Facilities

The workshop will take place at CITLE Office, McPheeters Dennis, 3rd floor room 339.

For More Information

For questions about workshop content, please contact Sarah Fortner (sfortner@wittenberg.edu)

For questions about the local site, please contact Elizabeth Deimeke (edeimeke@cau.edu) or Felicia Davis (fdavis@cau.edu)