Events in November 2021
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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
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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
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Coffee and Connection Coffee and Connection
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November 9, 2021Please check the COGS Events page for the location
https://cogs.msu.edu/upcoming-events/
Strategies for Effective Team Authorship Decisions: Power Dynamics, Authorship Policies, and Team Climate (3620-ILT), November 9, 2021 Strategies for Effective Team Authorship Decisions: Power Dynamics, Authorship Policies, and Team Climate (3620-ILT), November 9, 2021
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November 9, 2021Date:
Tuesday, November 9, 2021 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location:
Zoom
Research is an increasingly complex endeavor, and one rarely works in isolation. This session will help you understand and appreciate what a ‘conflict of interest’ is, that they occur in many situations and are manageable. Strategies to avoid conflicts of interest will be presented. Conflicts within the context of peer review will be discussed - an important duty for all members of the scholarly community.
The term 'collaboration' in academic research is usually thought to mean an equal partnership between at least two academic faculty members who are pursuing mutually interesting and beneficial research or scholarly activities. Today, however, many collaborations involve researchers of differing stature, funding status, and types of organizations. In this workshop, rules for successful research collaboration will be discussed.
For registration see https://abilitylms.msu.edu/MSU/LearnerWeb_PTM.php?ActionID=Enroll&EventID=6731
Category:
Professional Development
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Navigating the PhD Workshop (Session 1) Navigating the PhD Workshop (Session 1)
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November 12, 2021Date:
Friday, November 12, 2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location:
Zoom
This interactive online writing workshop is designed to help you develop an individualized plan for graduate writing, especially comprehensive exams, dissertation proposals, and dissertations. Session 1 is generally designed for students in the early years of their PhD study.
In this 3-hour workshop, plans for time management and working with others, especially during these unprecedented times in higher education, will be the main focus. Participants will create academic timelines for their PhD work at MSU and discuss technologies and habits that can help them stay on task. Participants will also discuss how to manage the stress that often pervades the life of PhD students and how that stress might be particularly amplified during this year considering that we are collectively working through the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing racial and systematic injustice and police violence against the Black community.
Facilitators will help guide these discussions and share resources and strategies for overcoming writer's block and procrastination and adopting and maintaining productive practices to consider how to balance time management and prioritizing academic goals.
Additionally, discussion about selecting and working with committees will provide a space for sharing about and learning how to communicate with faculty members about research and writing.
A Zoom link will be shared with registrants prior to the date of the workshop.
Category:
Professional Development
Navigating the PhD Workshop (Session 2) Navigating the PhD Workshop (Session 2)
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November 12, 2021Date:
Friday, November 12, 2021 - 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Location:
Zoom
This interactive online writing workshop is designed to help you develop an individualized plan for graduate writing, especially comprehensive exams, dissertation proposals, and dissertations. Session 2 is designed for students in the latter years of their PhD study.
In this 3-hour workshop, the focus will be on developing and maintaining productive and effective writing processes and practices, especially during these unprecedented times in higher education and in society where we are collectively working through the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing racial and systematic injustice and police violence against the Black community.
Every PhD program at MSU requires comprehensive exams, dissertation proposals, and dissertations. In the workshop, participants will explore and share their current writing practices and be given practical writing and revision strategies. During the latter half of the workshop, participants will draft a plan for developing and completing their dissertations.
A Zoom link will be shared with registrants prior to the workshop.
Category:
Professional Development
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Night at the Planetarium -
Best Practices in Trauma Informed Teaching Best Practices in Trauma Informed Teaching
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November 17, 2021Date:
Wednesday, November 17, 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.
Session Description:
Undergraduate and graduate students at MSU come to us with very diverse backgrounds and experiences that impact their preparation and learning. Adversity and other experiences, including the current pandemic impact student engagement with learning and faculty. This workshop will explore an understanding of universal approaches that are trauma informed and support student engagement. Principles of trauma informed work as well as best practices for trauma informed teaching will be explored and discussed.
Presenter Bio:
Cheryl Williams-Hecksel is on the faculty of the MSU School of Social Work. Cheryl is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has been with the School of Social Work since 2006. Prior to joining the faculty at MSU, she has spent more than 25 years in clinical and administrative roles in public and private child welfare and mental health agencies. She is the coordinator of the School’s Evidence Based Trauma Treatment Certificate. She is also involved in MSU’s work with the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute where she serves as coordinator of the University Partnerships team. Her work also includes consultation with social service agencies around their capacity to trauma informed. She is also one of the founders of the Trauma Services and Training Network at MSU, a collaborative grass roots effort of University faculty, staff and students to work towards creating a trauma informed University. Within this work, she is cofacilitator of a Learning Community that engages those in the MSU community that are working within their units and roles to implement trauma informed principles into their work.
Please register below and attend and we will send you slides and other related materials.
Join Zoom Meeting https://msu.zoom.us/j/732599810 Meeting ID: 732 599 810 Passcode: GTAsTeach
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Professional Development
COGS Full Council Meeting -
Leadership Workshop 2: DIV.IN.ITY. : A Deeper Look at DIversity, INclusion & EquITY Leadership Workshop 2: DIV.IN.ITY. : A Deeper Look at DIversity, INclusion & EquITY
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November 18, 2021Date:
Thursday, November 18, 2021 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location:
Zoom
By Shruti Khandelwal, Neelanjana Mukherjee and Donna Tran
We invite you to engage creatively and socially with the MSU community on topics of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. This event has three creative mini-sessions with role-play and dialoguing to enhance our knowledge and share our story!
Category:
Professional Development
Diversity and Inclusion -
Graduate School Write-In Graduate School Write-In
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November 19, 2021Date:
Friday, November 19, 2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location:
Zoom
'Graduate School Write-Ins are co-sponsored by the Graduate School and The Writing Center @ MSU. The write-ins are hosted and facilitated to provide writers with an opportunity to write in a shared writing space where other writers are present, and a writing center consultant/staff member is present to provide consultations for writers who would like to have a consultation appointment during the session.
Along with this, the write-ins provide an opportunity for facilitators to promote and share information about upcoming events hosted by the Graduate School, Writing Center, and other campus partners such as the University Outreach and Engagement Office and to provide resources and information that can be used to form graduate writing groups, have writing center appointments or attend workshops (provided by the Graduate School) cater to graduate students based on goals they may share during the write in.'
Category:
Professional Development
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Coffee and Connection Coffee and Connection
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November 23, 2021Please check the COGS Events page for the location
https://cogs.msu.edu/upcoming-events/
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Thanksgiving Break - University Closed Thanksgiving Break - University Closed
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November 25, 2021 – November 26, 2021Date:
Thursday, November 25, 2021 - 12:00am to Friday, November 26, 2021 - 11:55pm
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Important Dates
Annual Thanksgiving Day Unity Dinner Annual Thanksgiving Day Unity Dinner
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November 25, 2021Date:
Thursday, November 25, 2021 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Brody Classroom
The Annual Thanksgiving fellowship dinner at Michigan State University is an annual dinner coordinated by OCAT and hosted by Student Life and Engagement.
This event provides a FREE Thanksgiving meal to students who remain on campus during the Thanksgiving holiday. Please use the QR codes in the image to register as a volunteer or dinner participant.
Email floresj2@msu.edu with questions.
Category:
Life and Well-Being
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Thanksgiving Break - University Closed Thanksgiving Break - University Closed
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November 25, 2021 – November 26, 2021Date:
Thursday, November 25, 2021 - 12:00am to Friday, November 26, 2021 - 11:55pm
Category:
Important Dates
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Night at the Planetarium
