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A message from the Center for Leadership, Teaching, and Learning

Featured Events

Turning Dialogue into Action

Monday, September 21, from 4-5:30 p.m

Panelists Andrea Benjamin PhD, Associate Professor of Political Science, The University of Oklahoma, Jael Kerandi, Activist, Student Body President Emerita, University of Minnesota and J Mase III, Educator, Poet, Community Activist, Founder of awQward will discuss how to use dialogue as a tool for creating systemic change in politics (locally and nationally), in local communities, and within higher education.

Emotional Presence in Online Teaching for Increased Student Engagement, Persistence, and Success with Flower Darby

Wednesday, September 23, from 10-11 a.m.

In this session, we will examine the research on how emotion and cognition are linked and how emotions impact our online teaching and learning experiences, based on the Community of Inquiry framework. In addition, we will discuss practical strategies for putting the power of emotions to work for us in online classes to help us capture and hold our students' attention, better engage our students in their learning, and ultimately help them persist and succeed.

Pedagogy Clusters: Round 6

As part of the Mellon Grant, the Dean of Faculty's Office and the Center for Leadership, Teaching, and Learning are partnering to support pedagogy clusters focused on the development of the Bridge Experience (BE) or Fundamental Quantitative Reasoning (FQR) courses. For more, please see the recent email sent to faculty .

Featured Faculty/Staff

Gwen D'Arcangelis is associate professor in Gender Studies. Her areas of teaching and research include gender, race, and science; feminist science fiction; disease and empire; and feminist and anti-imperial praxis. She has published on the construction of white scientific masculinity in U.S. national security discourse, gendered Orientalism in the U.S. news media during the 2003 SARS disease scare, and nurse activism during the war on terror. Her forthcoming book, titled Bio-Imperialism: Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility, examines the gendered, raced, and imperial dimensions of U.S. focus on bioterror and germ threats.

Professor D'Arcangelis's Reflections On Teaching this Fall

"Remote learning is a mixed bag: there are the inevitable online lags and Zoom glitches; but there is also a freedom of movement and ease of communication that we currently do not experience during in-person interactions under the pandemic. I have approached remote learning by simulating in-person learning experiences such as small group work via Zoom's Breakout rooms, and also by exploiting Zoom features such as backchannel chat and video assignments to create new types of student engagement."

Featured CLTL Student

Brandy Smith '21

Brandy is a senior from Dayton, Ohio. She majors in a sociology with a minor in Gender Studies and Intergroup Relations. She is part of the CLTL Advisory Council. Brandy spent part of her 2020 spring semester studying abroad in Brazil and Spain looking at Cities in the 21st century.

Brandy's passions include pretending to be a TV show chef, reading Black literature, and crocheting.

A saying that Brandy lives by is, "See it. Believe it. Receive it." She doesn't quite know what she wants to do in the after she graduates, but she wants to center Black youth. She hopes that the future of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø includes centering the needs of BIPOC on campus, both students and faculty.

Student Voices

What has your experience been with in-person classes so far this fall? Do you have any inclusive pedagogical advice on this topic?

"My in-person class this semester is in a tent outside, and in terms of physical accessibility, there is a paved walkway that goes directly into the tent which is efficient. Within the tent there is a provided microphone which my professor doesn't use yet. Taking into account how hard it is to hear with masks on, especially when you are distanced to the back of the room, this is something I think professors should be more aware of. In terms of accommodations regarding mental wellbeing and taking steps away from in-person group learning, my professor has been very thoughtful which I think is great because the context of the time we are in is so unprecedented." 

"My experience with in person classes this Fall has been a little unsettling. I feel like there has been such a need to return to 'normal' and congregate as a group that sometimes I have to remind myself that we are in the middle of a global pandemic. In my in-person class we sit outside in a big circle and when it begins to get dark, we go inside the tent. This peculiar routine has somehow become normal to me. I think that there is no way to be inclusive given the situation that we are in without recognizing that the pandemic has affected all of us differently. I would like for professors to check in with students more, although I feel like students have been saying this for years and its been a slow change. I want professors to put theory to praxis and acknowledge mental wellbeing."   

News and Resources

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• The Scholarly and Creative Endeavors (SCE) Virtual Groups are meetings Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays from 12:00-1:00 pm this Fall.
• For questions on remote teaching, please email remotehelp@skidmore.edu 
• CLTL office hours are 2-3 p.m. on Mondays via Zoom, beginning on September 21, and by appointment this semester: . I welcome student, staff, and faculty visitors and input into how the CLTL can best serve you. Please reach out to me via email.

In accordance with our liberal arts mission, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø's Center for Leadership, Teaching, and Learning (CLTL) partners with faculty, staff, and students on campus to promote excellence and innovation in teaching and learning through inclusive, evidence-based, and student-centered practices. []

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