Davis Family Library Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

When Middlebury faculty and staff innovate as educators, what impact does it have on the broader curriculum? This event features members of the EAC and some recent pedagogical pioneers in a discussion about pedagogical experimentation and its relationship to the curriculum that we have as well as the curriculum that we might want in the future. As the year draws to a close, what could you contribute to this thought-provoking, forward-looking conversation? All are welcome to this lunchtime discussion.

Practitioners of Project-Based Learning gather once a month to share their experiences and support each other in this particular pedagogical endeavor. Please RSVP if you plan to join our PBL Community of Practice meeting. All are welcome.

Lunch will be provided. Please register by April 24 if you will be joining us for lunch.

Practitioners of Project-Based Learning gather once a month to share their experiences and support each other in this particular pedagogical endeavor. Please RSVP if you plan to join our PBL Community of Practice meeting. All are welcome.

Middlebury will be joining hundreds of educational institutions around the world (in more than 50 countries and most US states) in the Worldwide Teach-In on Climate Change during the week of March 27-31. Last year’s event included participation from more than 30 faculty - from Economics, Environmental Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Theatre, Arabic, Geology, Dance, Computer Science, English, and other fields, reaching (by some conservative estimates) over 400 students. This year we are hoping to reach the majority of our campus community!

Please join us for a Career Conversation with Writer Abe Streep ’04. He will discuss his career journey and various aspects of the industry. He is the author of Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana, winner of the Montana Book Award and the New Mexico-Arizona General Nonfiction Book Award.

The Little Things are Never Really Little: Building More Access to Course Materials and Increasing Participation

Deirdre Kelly and Peter Ploegman of the Disability Resource Center join Tara Affolter, Faculty Director of Equity, Justice and Inclusion to share practical resources for more inclusive classrooms. Participants will learn how to create accessible documents, discuss barriers to full participation in classes, and apply our collective wisdom to removing some of the more frequent access barriers our students encounter.

Dan Bouk, Associate Professor and Chair of History, Colgate, created a History Lab for students to contribute research to his recent book on the 1940 Census. Join us for lunch to learn about their collaborative work and to discuss ways in which humanists can learn from and teach with all the stuff “shrouded in cloaks of boringness”: bureaucracies, budgets, censuses, and all sorts of public and private numbers.

Register for the Tuesday in-person lunch.

Join us for this lunch and panel discussion focused on different ways that faculty/staff collaborate with students. How do they all stand to benefit from working together? What conditions are most suitable for effective, collaborative learning? Panelists include Laura Lesta Garcia (Luso-Hispanic Studies) & a PBL Project Assistant, Sarah Lohnes Watulak (DLINQ) & Inclusive Design Studio students, Brandon Baird (Luso-Hispanic Studies) & a research assistant, and Amanda Crocker (Neuroscience) & a course tutor.

Join us for this lunch and panel discussion with Dean of Curriculum Grace Spatafora (Biology), Elizabeth Morrison (Religion), Jonathan Miller-Lane (Education Studies), Priscilla Bremser (Math), and Tanya Byker (Economics). What can we do to create a curriculum that fits our students’ needs? Discussion will begin with impressions of the new half-credit course option and midd.data’s summer bootcamp pilot.

To see the full schedule and register see - go.middlebury.edu/cts

Join us for this lunch and a panel discussion with Derek Doucet (Dean of Students), Jennifer Bates (CTLR), Maddie Hope-Lyng (Health and Wellness Education), and Jodi Litchfield, Peter Ploegman, and Dierdre Kelly (Disability Resource Center). Panelists will provide their perspective on the impact of the last few years on student learning and what challenges and opportunities our students are navigating at Middlebury now. For discussion: How can we all embrace our current students and support them in their learning, wherever they are?