BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:10686-506149993325d70526991364ac389052@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260416T065756Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop: Active Learning with Confidence (and without the Burnout) DESCRIPTION:\nThe Fisher Family\, Robert and Marie Secor\, and the John Moore Teaching Mentorship in English Present Christina Katopodis.\n\nWe know from the learning sciences that active learning is the best way to learn. Empowering students to be active learners can introduce uncertain ty in a classroom that looks and sounds different from a more traditiona l one. In this workshop\, we brainstorm our priorities so we can be stur dy leaders throughout the learning process. Participants come away with a student self-evaluation structure that works in any classroom.\n\nChri stina Katopodis\, Ph.D.\, is a senior postdoctoral research associate at the City University of New York’s Humanities Alliance\, pursuing resear ch on the indispensable role of a humanities education in a just society . She is the former associate director of Transformative Learning in the Humanities and founder of Engaged &\; Ready\, a project that empower s faculty with antiracist active learning tools to democratize their cla ssrooms. She is the winner of the 2019 Diana Colbert Innovative Teaching Prize and the 2018 Dewey Digital Teaching Award. She has authored or co -authored articles published in Chronicle of Higher Ed\, English Languag e Notes\, ESQ\, Hybrid Pedagogy\, Inside Higher Ed\, ISLE\, MLA’s Profes sion\, Times Higher Ed\, and Zeal: A Journal for the Liberal Arts. With Cathy N. Davidson\, Katopodis is author of The New College Classroom (Ha rvard University Press 2022)\, winner of the AAC&\;U 2023 Frederic W. Ness Book Award.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/w orkshop-active-learning-with-confidence/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Fisher Fami ly, Robert and Marie Secor, and the John Moore Teaching Mentorship in En glish Present Christina Katopodis.

We know from the learning scien ces that active learning is the best way to learn. Empowering students t o be active learners can introduce uncertainty in a classroom that looks and sounds different from a more traditional one. In this workshop, we brainstorm our priorities so we can be sturdy leaders throughout the lea rning process. Participants come away with a student self-evaluation str ucture that works in any classroom.

Chris tina Katopodis, Ph.D., is a senior postdoctoral research associate at th e City University of New York’s Humanities Alliance, pursuing research o n the indispensable role of a humanities education in a just society. Sh e is the former associate director of Transformative Learning in the Hum anities and founder of Engaged & Ready, a project that empowers facu lty with antiracist active learning tools to democratize their classroom s. She is the winner of the 2019 Diana Colbert Innovative Teaching Prize and the 2018 Dewey Digital Teaching Award. She has authored or co-autho red articles published in Chronicle of Higher Ed, English L anguage Notes, ESQ, Hybrid Pedagogy, Inside H igher Ed, ISLE, MLA’s Profession, Times Highe r Ed, and Zeal: A Journal for the Liberal Arts. With Cathy N. Davidson, Katopodis is author of The New College Classroom (Harvard University Press 2022), winner of the AAC&U 2023 Frederic W . Ness Book Award.

For more details: https://events.la .psu.edu/event/workshop-active-learning-with-confidence/

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