The week's events
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CCT Scaffolding Session CCT Scaffolding Session
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November 2, 2021Date:
Tuesday, November 2, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location:
Zoom
CCT Scaffolding session for Graduate Students and Postdocs completing their Certification in College Teaching
If you have attended any of our Certification in College Teaching Institutes in the last few years, please join a scaffolding session to help you complete your Certification in College Teaching. In this session we will help clarify requirements, answer questions regarding the completion process, your teaching philosophy, your mentored teaching project and associated assessment methods as well as your e-Portfolio completion. Please register for the Scaffolding Session on November 2, 2021 from 4:00 – 5:30 pm.
Category:
Professional Development
Leadership Workshop 1: The Skills of Adaptation Leadership Workshop 1: The Skills of Adaptation
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November 2, 2021Date:
Tuesday, November 2, 2021 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location:
Zoom
Dr. Meg Moore
Successful leaders must be able to gauge their environment accurately and match their plans and strategies to the unique demands of their environment. In order to navigate effectively, we must stay connected to our own sense of purpose and values while adjusting how we function, reinventing ourselves as needed. This skill has never been more necessary or more difficult as it has been during the pandemic. In this workshop, we will talk about concrete strategies to increase your ability to adapt in the face of changing circumstances.
Category:
Professional Development
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Apprenticing into the Academy: Communities of Practice and Learning as Participation Apprenticing into the Academy: Communities of Practice and Learning as Participation
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November 3, 2021Date:
Wednesday, November 3, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
Zoom
In bi-weekly Virtual Lunch and Learn & Best Practices in Teaching gatherings Graduate Teaching Assistants share their knowledge about teaching, teaching and technology tools as well as discuss research of teaching, book chapters relevant to work in an instructional setting. Anyone interested in these topics can join these meetings.
(11:45 am: Check in and Community Connect)
Session Description:
When you work as a TA while completing your graduate studies, do you have the sense that the work you are doing now resembles and will prepare you for your future teaching responsibilities in a university context? We usually think of learning as mastery of content or skills, but all learning is really participation and identity construction (Lave and Wenger, 1991; Wenger, 1998). Ideally, working as a teaching assistant ought to be apprenticing you into the role of a teaching professor. In this session, we will identify some of the reasons why the job of a teaching assistant does not always involve a learning process that aligns with your professional goals, and we will discuss strategies for tapping into your communities of practice to promote your own learning (McDonald & Cater-Steel, 2017). The session itself will also model ways of promoting interaction in online learning contexts.
Presenter Bio:
Amanda Lanier (Ph.D., Georgia State University) is an applied linguist and language teacher educator who focuses on social and cultural aspects of language learning, teacher cognition, and technology in language teaching and learning. She began her career teaching English as a foreign and second language, and she has worked with teachers of 20 other languages and language varieties. Through her role as instructor and director in a fully online graduate program, MSU’s MA in Foreign Language Teaching (https://maflt.cal.msu.edu), Dr. Lanier has designed a dozen online graduate courses on topics including pedagogical methods, intercultural competence, language acquisition theories, and program development and administration, and she has also become an advocate for online learning and teaching. Learn more, find teacher resources, and read brief articles at https://alanier.msu.domains.
Please register below and attend and we will send you slides and other related materials.
Join Zoom Meeting https://msu.zoom.us/j/732599810Meeting ID: 732 599 810 Passcode: GTAsTeach
Category:
Professional Development
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Culturally Responsive Mentoring Workshop Culturally Responsive Mentoring Workshop
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November 5, 2021Date:
Friday, November 5, 2021 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location:
Zoom
The MSU AGEP Program will be hosting a virtual Culturally Responsive Mentoring Workshop on Friday November 5, 2021 at 12:15 pm with Dr. Etta Ward (IUPUI Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research Development) and Dr. Randall Roper (Associate Professor of Biology and Director of the IUPUI Graduate Mentoring Center at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis). To sign up, click here, https://bit.ly/3nrCzQC
This event will be valuable for any graduate student, post-doc, faculty member or community leader interested in developing their skills in cultural sensitivity as well as the creation of inclusive environments and work teams.
Category:
Professional Development
Science & Society Public Forum Science & Society Public Forum
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November 5, 2021Date:
Friday, November 5, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:
Zoom
MSU AGEP Learning Community will feature Dr. Carmel Martin-Fairey (NCCU, MSU AGEP alum). Her presentation, “The Biology of Memory: Impacts on Teaching and Studying” will focus on skills on how to students and instructors modify study and teaching techniques based on current neuroscience research. Dr. Martin-Fairey will bring her years of experience as Assistant Professor of Biology in the Life Sciences Department at Harris Stowe State University. Dr. Martin-Fairey has been recognized as an inductee of the Society for Neuroscience recipient as a Neuroscholar and the first African American to earn a doctoral degree in the field of Behavioral Neuroscience at MSU. This event will be valuable for any undergraduate, graduate student, post-doc, faculty member or community leader interested in developing new approaches to teaching and learning. To sign up, for this presentation on Friday November 5, 2021 at 4:00 PM-5:00 PM click here, https://bit.ly/3xu197T
Category:
Professional Development
