Davis Family Library Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

This fall, we invite you to join in a reading and conversation series focused on student engagement. Each month, we’ll share just one article to prompt and provoke conversation. Through reading and discussion, we hope to make space for you to share your thoughts about student engagement, as well as explore the many facets of student engagement and its implications for teaching and learning. (You’re welcome to join us to talk about student engagement, even if you haven’t read the article!)

This fall, we invite you to join in a reading and conversation series focused on student engagement. Each month, we’ll share just one article to prompt and provoke conversation. Through reading and discussion, we hope to make space for you to share your thoughts about student engagement, as well as explore the many facets of student engagement and its implications for teaching and learning. (You’re welcome to join us to talk about student engagement, even if you haven’t read the article!)

This fall, we invite you to join in a reading and conversation series focused on student engagement. Each month, we’ll share just one article to prompt and provoke conversation. Through reading and discussion, we hope to make space for you to share your thoughts about student engagement, as well as explore the many facets of student engagement and its implications for teaching and learning. (You’re welcome to join us to talk about student engagement, even if you haven’t read the article!)

Once a month we welcome new and veteran colleagues to build community over a shared lunch and to discuss important subjects about academia. April’s lunch conversation, moderated by Roberto Lint Sagarena, will center on a facet of our work at Middlebury that deserves more attention, reflection, and perhaps even reform. Junior faculty, this one about advising isn’t to be missed.

Please register by Monday April 1st

To help raise awareness for Worldwide Climate Justice and Education Week, the CTLR welcomes you to a conversation with faculty and staff colleagues, led by Julia Berazneva (Economics) and Minna Brown (Climate Action Program). What creative steps, big and small, could we each take to insert a little climate education into our teaching this week and beyond? We will gather around the lunch table to explore this question with those who are experienced in this practice and those who are wanting to learn how.

Please register for this event by Thursday March 28th

Learn the most effective and efficient approaches to reading and studying and get the highest learning outcomes with the smallest investment of time possible. Bring your reading and your notes so you can practice what you learn with Learning Resources staff—or grab some handouts and go.

Snacks and hot cocoa provided!

The CTLR welcomes all faculty to enjoy lunch together and to engage with new and veteran colleagues in a discussion about what life looks like after tenure. Come for tasty food, camaraderie, and lively conversation about the post-tenure world at Middlebury. On the one hand, a major professional milestone has passed; on the other hand, committee work, chairing of departments, and a new level of professional commitments typically begins in earnest at this point.

On Tuesday, February 27, Arthur Chiaravalli, scholar, educator, and now administrator at Champlain Valley Union High School, will join us to share his insights on what is shaping the academic and emotional development of today’s high school students. As the founder of Teachers Going Gradeless, Arthur will also entertain questions about the impact of different forms of evaluation and assessment, including “-less” grading as well as no grading within a grading environment.

On Wednesday, January 31, we will gather for a final lunch to answer those questions for ourselves. From that discussion, where do we see room for consensus around the table? What related topics of interest are emerging among us that deserve future exploration or action in Spring 2024?

Please register for lunch by Friday, January 26.

On Tuesday, January 30, members of the Educational Affairs Committee, Faculty Council, Strategy Committee, and the Curriculum Committee will provide their perspective on how curricular issues impact their committee work. What intriguing questions do they see emerging around our curriculum and where do they see the curriculum needing to go in the future?

Please register for in-person (by January 26) or online participation. In-person lunch/gathering begins at 12:15. The presentation will begin at 12:30.