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Strong Start Teaching Institute Continuing Series: Workshop #1: Expanding Student Reading Competencies (NEW!)
Date and Time
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
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Location
Allendale: Tuesday, Feb 11th 10:00-11:30am (3068 Zumberge Hall)
OR
Downtown: Thursday, Feb. 13th 10:00-11:30am (411 Eberhard Center)
Description
An extension of our annual Strong Start Teaching Institute, this continuing Winter series is meant to carry on conversations around small teaching practices for faculty to support our first and second-year students. These in-person workshops will be offered at both the Allendale and downtown campuses by the Pew FTLC Assistant Director, Dr. Maggie Goss. While these workshops stem from the Strong Start Teaching Institute (focused on engaging students in first- and second-year undergraduate courses), faculty teaching all levels of undergraduate students will benefit from these discussions, and participants need not have attended Strong Start.
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Workshop #1 – Expanding Student Reading Competencies (NEW!)
Tuesday, Feb. 11th 10:00-11:30am (3068 Zumberge Hall)
OR
Thursday, Feb. 13th 10:00-11:30am (411 Eberhard Center)
Reading is a commonly assigned activity to introduce students to new or existing ideas, scaffold the learning process, and practice analytic skills. Ideally, students enter our classes with the ability to make meaning of texts, summarize arguments, and form unique responses. In reality, more and more students struggle to meet reading competency expectations. While GVSU has support systems in place for students to improve their reading skills, this workshop focuses on approaches to reading comprehension across disciplines. We know learning strategies are more impactful in the context of a course (while the course is happening), therefore participants will leave with strategies for clarifying expectations for students in class and ways to integrate the teaching of disciplinary reading skills across the semester. Register to attend the workshop on Tuesday, January 28 or Thursday, January 30.
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Contact
Pew Faculty Teaching and Learning Center
[email protected]