Workshop 1: Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Workshop 2: Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Workshops are 11:30 am–12:45 pm
Online Event
This workshop will provide an introduction to a field in education known as Contemplative Pedagogy (CP), with a special focus on Online and Hybrid teaching environments.
CP prioritizes reducing stress in the teaching environment for both students and teachers, incorporates mindfulness elements, increases creativity, and cultivates a deeper sense of knowing. It provides access to alternative ways of learning and understanding that is complementary to approaches found in most traditional liberal arts education. By teaching to the whole human, CP addresses the challenges of a global pandemic context.
This workshop will cover:
Come prepared to enjoy yourself, and relax into an atmosphere of mindful teaching and learning, even online!
In this workshop, participants will learn practical tips and proactive techniques for avoiding technology failures in the classroom by creating a personalized checklist for success ahead of time. This will go a long way to helping reduce anxiety and return a more balanced state of emotional wellbeing to course instruction. That said, technology failures will still occur, even with the best of preparation. Thus, we will also learn skills for keeping our nervous systems calm even when technology does fail so we are able to navigate these inevitable surprises with a little more humor and a little more grace.
This workshop will:
Participants will experience a mini technology melt-down during this session and see how they do with their new skills! This will invite more empathy for ourselves and be a lot of fun as we navigate this brave new world of teaching in 2021!
Workshops presented by
Miku Lenentine, CTE Affiliate Faculty
This event is sponsored by the OFDAS Center for Teaching Excellence
Please register as space is limited.