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Learning by Design Studio: Inclusive Learning Materials and Moves in Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

Moodle - FDC Commons

Understanding that all learners are cultural beings, culturally relevant/responsive pedagogy is an asset-based approach to teaching that harnesses students’ cultural identities and lived experiences as tools for student-centered instruction. This Learning by Design (LBD) studio introduces the premise of culturally responsive pedagogy, briefly reviews a case study where the practice guided the selection of material […]

Talking Teaching: Collaborative Group Learning/Projects

James B. Duke Library - Room 043

Talking Teaching conversations provide an opportunity to build community and reflect on links between our teaching practice and student learning experiences. Join colleagues from a range of disciplines to discuss ideas about both long-standing and emerging pedagogical challenges. These open and informal conversations focus on emergent teaching and learning issues in an informal, discussion-based format. […]

Lunch & Learn: Designing and Proposing a CLP Event

Daniel Dining Hall - Trustees Dining Room

The Cultural Life Program (CLP) provides enriching and challenging learning opportunities that engage members of the Furman community in a spectrum of issues, ideas, and artistic expressions from various disciplines and cultures. Whether you are a seasoned CLP pro, or considering your first proposal, you are invited to discuss the process of proposing a CLP […]

Talking Teaching: Equitable and Authentic Pedagogy

James B. Duke Library - Room 043

Talking Teaching conversations provide an opportunity to build community and reflect on links between our teaching practice and student learning experiences. Join colleagues from a range of disciplines to discuss ideas about both long-standing and emerging pedagogical challenges. These open and informal conversations focus on emergent teaching and learning issues in an informal, discussion-based format. […]

Inclusive Syllabus Debrief and Course Tune-Up Roundtable Breakfast

Hartness Pavilion

In this working breakfast we will invite conversation about small tweaks to course design and pedagogy that might bolster learning environments that provide equitable opportunities for students to succeed. After hearing brief highlights from a Furman colleague about their experience making pedagogical changes designed to cultivate more diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning experiences, the remainder […]

Reading Circle: Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It

Author James M. Lang argues that how we teach is often at odds with how students learn. Classrooms are designed to force students into long periods of intense focus, but emerging science reveals that the brain is wired for distraction. We learn best when able to actively seek and synthesize new information.  Brimming with ideas and grounded […]

Reading Circle: College Students’ Sense of Belonging: A Key to Educational Success for All Students

This book explores how belonging differs based on students’ social identities, such as race, gender, sexual orientation, or the conditions they encounter on campus. Belonging―with peers, in the classroom, or on campus―is a critical dimension of success at college. It can affect a student’s degree of academic adjustment, achievement, aspirations, and retention. Group meetings will occur […]

Talking Teaching: AI and Assignment Design

Join us for an open-forum conversation about recent artificial intelligence text generation gains and their implication for teaching and learning. To gain familiarity with the issue prior to gathering, please read one of the following: AI and the Future of Undergraduate Writing OR One in a series of pieces by John Warner in Inside Higher Ed available here and here. Our conversation […]

Duke Leadership Peer Coaching Workshop

Through the generous one-time funding of a recent Duke Endowment Leadership development grant the FDC is excited to offer workshops and resources for participants to develop peer coaching skills. The Duke Leadership Peer Coaching program includes 3 elements that build upon one another: an initial peer coaching workshop, a follow-up skills application workshop in an area […]

Lunch and Learn Open Forum and Workshop

Lunch and Learn Open Forum:  Artificial Intelligence and the Evolving Role of Educator  February 13 from 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm    Trustees Dining Hall    Workshop:  Practical and Ethical Use of AI Tools in Your Course  February 13 from 4 pm – 5:15 pm  Location TBD   The Faculty Development Center and Writing Programs invite […]

Lunch and Learn: Evidence-Based Learning: What Cognitive Science Tells Us About What Works and What Doesn’t in Learning

Daniel Dining Hall - Trustees Dining Room

The science of learning can yield considerable insight and guidance in the quest to understand effective teaching and learning strategies. In this session, join Assistant Professor of Psychology Adam Putnam to learn more about several learning principles that have emerged from research in cognitive science as well as several persistent myths about the learning process. […]

Lunch and Learn: Archives to Active Learning: Special Collections and Archives Fellowships

Daniel Dining Hall - Trustees Dining Room

Special Collections and Archives offers 2 short summer fellowships for Furman faculty each year. Fellows explore our collections and liaise with library faculty and staff with an eye to enhancing an existing course or developing new course assignments or content to engage students with Furman’s rare and unique books, manuscripts, documents, and objects. Come to […]