Upcoming Events
Looking Back, Planning Forward
Date and Time
Tuesday, June 1, 2021 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Location
Zoom
Description
This event is part of our Course Design Series 2021.
Guided reflection and planning activities, hosted by Dr. Julia Metzker.
Description
This last year has been like none other. We are now in a season of anniversaries, which include loss and change. As we look forward to the coming year and prepare for new possibilities, let’s collectively acknowledge how living and teaching in a global pandemic has left its mark on us. In a year of physical isolation, we’ve embraced new approaches to teaching. In this session, Julia Metzker will lead a structured reflection designed to help articulate the learning and growth we’ve collectively experienced over the past year. This session offers the gift of time to engage in sense-making - on the heels of a year that often didn’t make sense.
Facilitator
Julia Metzker - Director, Washington Center for Improving Undergraduate Education
JuliA Metzker serves as the director of the Washington Center for Improving Undergraduate Education at The Evergreen State College. JuliA received her first degree from Evergreen, where she learned firsthand the value of a transformative liberal arts education. She obtained a doctoral degree in inorganic chemistry from the University of Arizona and completed a postdoctoral appointment at the University of York in the United Kingdom. In her 10 years as a chemistry professor at Georgia College, she discovered the power of community-based learning to engage students in learning that matters. After serving as director of community-based engaged Learning at Georgia college, she moved to Stetson University as the founding executive director for the Brown Center for Faculty Innovation and Excellence. During her journey of discovering herself as an educator, she was fortunate to find a cohort of like-minded university educators who cofounded the Innovative Course-building Group (IC-bG)—a grassroots social network for learning that supports teaching faculty and staff across disciplines. Recently, she co-authored a book (1) with colleagues from this group that takes a fresh approach to designing learning experiences for the 21st century. JuliA believes in reimagining and reclaiming the democratic potential of assessment, work she champions as a member of the Imagining America’s “Assessing the Practices of Public scholarship” research group. She and her partner, Joe, raise chickens and bees with the help of an unruly Australian shepherd in the Pacific northwest.
(1) Zehnder, C., Alby, C., Kleine, K., & Metzker, J. (2020). Learning That Matters: A Field Guide to Course Design for Transformative Education. Myers Education Press.
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Information
For more information, please visit: Spring/Summer 2021 Opportunities
Contact
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(616) 331-3498