Davis Family Library Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

Sometimes growth involves reassessing our own foundational practices and assumptions. Join us for this lunch and discussion about academic reading, facilitated by Hector Vila (Writing and Rhetoric Program). Knowing how to read is fundamental, but do we prepare our students to meet the objectives we set for reading assignments in our courses? How can we understand and communicate the value of this fundamental skill and the various reading processes our students need to use?

Join us for this lunch, panel discussion, and workshop with Julia Berazneva (Economics), Ellery Foutch (American Studies), Alex Lyford (Math), Alexis Mychajliw (Biology), and Greg Pask (Biology). Following a brief panel discussion about faculty’s experiences with teaching through play, project-based learning, research-based learning, and community-connected public humanities labs, participants will be able to meet with the panelists to discuss ideas for experimenting with their own instructional approaches.

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

Students from Tara Affolter’s class will perform Act II of their “Freedom Dreaming” theatre production, which points out barriers the students have faced or witnessed in the work towards an anti-racist Middlebury. The performance (about 10 minutes) will be followed by an informal discussion with attendees over cocoa and cookies. Audience members will be asked to reflect on what they heard and how it might affect their own curricular and pedagogical choices.

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

Join us for lunch and this final session of the “Freedom Dreaming” series, where participants will explore the ideas offered in the play as well as the live audience responses regarding how to make progress towards an anti-racist Middlebury. Participants will then set anti-racist goals within their own disciplines. This session is also a chance to ask for specific support or offer ideas for more programming around equity, justice, and inclusion.

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

Join us for lunch and a panel discussion with Tara Affolter (Education Studies), Mikaela Taylor (Special Collections), and Renee Wells (Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion). From the plethora of DEI workshops Renee has created for faculty and staff, to the support Mikaela brings to the archival work of the Twilight Project, and then the new “Freedom Dreaming” theatre project created by Tara and her students, this panel will help fill in the picture on current efforts to create an anti-racist Middlebury.

Come join us for casual conversation and a delicious free lunch before the Faculty meeting. We are meeting in the CTLR at the Davis Library. All are welcome. Please register for lunch by December 9th.

Practitioners of Project-Based Learning gather once a month to share their experiences and support each other in this particular pedagogical endeavor. All are welcome.

Please register via this link.

Practitioners of Project-Based Learning gather once a month to share their experiences and support each other in this particular pedagogical endeavor. All are welcome.

Please register via this link. 

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.

Craig Maravich and faculty friends will share their work on the ‘Beyond the Page’ initiative, which brings actors into classes to take text-based learning to a new level. Lunch will be served at this event in the CTLR Lounge at 12:30. Please register by Oct 30.