Graduate

Online Room/Area: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/my/CTLgrads

Want to practice a new in-class activity or just get some more practice before teaching in your virtual classroom? Join peers in an online Microteaching Practice session where you will divide into groups of 3-4 with a facilitator and take turns delivering short samples of instruction to each other. After each teaching sample, your facilitator and your peers will offer structured feedback to support your teaching. Whether you are currently teaching at Columbia or not, all graduate students looking to practice teaching are welcome to attend this Microteaching Practice session.

Columbia University makes every effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. Contact ColumbiaCTL@columbia.edu or 212.854.1692 for accommodations. This event may be photographed. For concerns, contact ColumbiaCTL@columbia.edu.

Teachers’ Lounges are a series of informal discussions for graduate students about teaching practices and the culture of learning at Columbia. Since many classes have shifted online this semester, Teachers’ Lounges are linking theories and models of online instruction to insights derived from working in digital learning spaces with Columbia students.

In this session, we will consider the often competing demands on attention when learning in the online environment, and discuss their impact on retention and understanding. What can instructors do to focus and pace the attention of their students while interacting with them in digital spaces? How can supplemental or asynchronous materials help? Join us to share tactics and gain inspiration. Please register here.

Columbia University makes every effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. Contact ColumbiaCTL@columbia.edu or 212.854.1692 for accommodations.

This event may be photographed. For concerns, contact ColumbiaCTL@columbia.edu.

It is no secret that stress, anxiety, and other mental health challenges are prevalent in higher education. In fact, each year, more students report experiencing negative academic impacts from stress than from the common cold and flu (NCHA, 2019). Yet standard mental health policies we include in our syllabi often frame these experiences as something to be addressed solely outside of the classroom. This learning community takes a different approach, recognizing that, as instructors and TAs, we have the power to support and prioritize our students’ (and our own) physical and mental well-being in the classroom, and that doing so can foster student learning.

In this learning community, we will re-center well-being by focusing on the techniques we, as instructors, can deploy in the classroom (or on Zoom). Such a re-centering of health is crucial now, as COVID-19, state-sanctioned violence, anti-Black racism, and political turmoil compound mental burdens and trauma. In this learning community, participants will explore the deeply entwined spheres of mental and emotional health, the human body, and education. Through a combination of asynchronous modules and synchronous workshop and discussion sessions, participants will frame the literature of mental health and bodily awareness in the classroom with their lived experience and leave with concrete methods of incorporating new insights into their own practice. By implementing these methods, our goal is for both students and teachers to experience more positive, rewarding, and healthy class spaces, and to support each other in working toward this vision.

Please register here.

*Please note: Prior to Session 1, registrants should complete all readings and activities in Module 1 of this asynchronous resource: https://courseworks2.columbia.edu/enroll/E637CL in order to prepare for and supplement Session 1 discussions.

This learning community is designed and facilitated by Abby Schroering and Adam Massmann, Senior Lead Teaching Fellows at the Center for Teaching and Learning and is part of a 2-part Learning Community series. Participation in both meetings of this LC is strongly encouraged; please be sure to register for Session 2 (On October 28, 2020) as well at: https://events.columbia.edu/go/wellbeing2.

*Please note: Prior to Session 2, all participants should complete all readings and activities in Module 2 of this asynchronous resource: https://courseworks2.columbia.edu/enroll/E637CL in order to prepare for and supplement discussions in Session 2.

This learning community is designed and facilitated by Abby Schroering and Adam Massmann, Senior Lead Teaching Fellows at the Center for Teaching and Learning and is part of a 2-part Learning Community series. Participation in both meetings of this LC is strongly encouraged; if possible, please also register for Session 1 (On October 21, 2020) at: https://events.columbia.edu/go/wellbeing1.

Please contact CTLgrads@columbia.edu with any questions.
Columbia University makes every effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. Contact ColumbiaCTL@columbia.edu for accommodations.

This event may be recorded and/or screenshots of the session may be taken. For concerns, contact ColumbiaCTL@columbia.edu.