August Teaching Enhancement Workshop

"Pedagogical Responses to the President's Task Force Report on Loyola's Connections with Slavery," Wednesday, August 28, 2024 - McGuire Hall

Program | TEW Committee | Past Workshops

Schedule of events
8:30 - 9:30 a.m.	Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30 a.m.	Plenary Panel Panelists: • Milton Javier Bravo (mission and identity) • David Carey (history) • Stephanie Flores-Koulish (education specialties) • Jenny Kinniff (Loyola/Notre Dame Library) Moderator: • Diana Betz (psychology)
10:30 - 10:45 a.m.	Break
10:45 - 11:30 a.m.	Breakout Sessions Round 1 1. Issues of Implementation: What Would a Reparative Pedagogy Look Like as the Presidential Report Informs Teaching and Learning at Loyola? (How can we have departmental conversations about how to coordinate our teaching around the Presidential Report to avoid oversaturation or redundancy?) Location: McGuire Hall Presenters: • Miya Carey-Agyemang (history) • Elizabeth Kennedy (information systems, law and operations) • Nicky McDougal (chemistry) 2. Learning More with Digital Teaching Fellows Location: Beatty Hall 112 Accessibility to Spanish-Speaking Cultures in the Classroom Virtual Language Exchanges on university students as well as the opportunity it presents to students to access native speakers and representatives of foreign cultures. Join Sarah Tyler from the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures to learn her discussion on the reduction of foreign language anxiety due to these interactions, represented by the data collected from her Intermediate Spanish I courses. Trauma-Informed Teaching Practices Christine Mahady (education specialties) will discuss the data and framework that we designed and implemented in the course trauma informed leadership.
11:30 - 11:45 a.m.	Break
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Breakout Session Round 2 see breakout session round 1 for breakout descriptions
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.	Lunch and Updates
Optional Afternoon Sessions
1:30 - 2 p.m.	Title IX and ADA Updates and Resources: What are you required and called to do? - McGuire Hall This presentation will review important updates to Title IX including updates on resources for all community members and new expectations for staff, faculty, and administrators. We will also review expectations for course documents related to the ADA and reveal and review new, exciting resources that will help us move toward accessible course content.
	DAS Updates - McGuire Hall Please join Taylor Thornton and Marcia Wiedefeld in a discussion on updates to procedures and policies and tours of the DAS testing center located in Maryland Hall.
	TCF Promotion - Beatty Hall 112 This information session is being hosted by the Board on Rank for Teaching and Clinical Faculty. Each year the Board on Rank for Teaching and Clinical Faculty considers applications for promotion to associate and full teaching or clinical professor. The goal of this information session is to share important information with all teaching and clinical faculty to help prepare them for this process.