Fall 2023 Learning Community: Decolonizing Peer Review and Writing Workshops
RSVP by September 20th
This group will deconstruct traditional workshop and peer review models and explore effective approaches for peer review in classes that include underrepresented communities whose voices are often silenced in our classrooms and other spaces.
These approaches can be used in many disciplines or in non-academic settings with a more diverse student population as a way to improve writing, reading, speaking, and listening skills, build confidence, foster community, and promote reflection. As a result, this topic could appeal to instructors who teach world language courses, first year seminars, intensive writing classes, and to instructional staff supporting writing across campus.
Provost's Retreat RSVP
The Provost's Retreat on Teaching and Learning took place on August 31st. Keynote speakers Loretta Ross and Ted Mason shared their insight about Rigor as Inclusive Practice, the theme of the event
Chatting About ChatGPT
A popular new AI chatbot can respond to any written input. A February 20th panel, convened by Academic Technology Services and the Center for Teaching and Learning, asked: What does this mean for teaching and learning?
Alumni speak of faculty having impact on their future
Read Emily Gold Boutilier's article "A Great and Lasting Impact" to understand how small gestures from compassionate professors had an impact on these five Amherst alumni and continue to shape who they are today.
August's Provost's Retreat 2022 theme - Ethic of Care: Relational Teaching and Learning (to sustain you and your students)
Teaching During Covid-19
Here are some resources that may help you plan and navigate teaching during the pandemic:
Metacognition
This year's Provost Retreat on Teaching and Learning focused on metacognition which is the ability to identify and utilize methods of learning that will be most effective for solving a particular problem or question and to assess one’s own learning in order to improve retention and transferability. Dr. Saundra McGuire’s keynote addressed the need for all students to develop metacognitive skills and introduced practical strategies for integrating metacognitive practices into our classes.
