Are you searching for ways to make your classroom environment more collaborative, liberating and supportive? Have you been wondering what abolition means and looks like in an academic context? Or how college classrooms connect to the prison industrial complex (PIC)? … Read More »Abolitionist Pedagogies: Dismantling Carceral Logics and Practices Panel
What do we grade, and for what purpose? Grading can be a painful experience – for both students and professors alike. This workshop will explore critical approaches to grading and feedback that can foster student agency, transparency, and engagement in… Read More »Why Do We grade? Critical Approaches to Grading
How can a critical approach to grading foster student agency and make grading a more meaningful, intentional process? This workshop will build on the ideas presented in the Towards Generative Assessment workshop and offer concrete practices to include students in… Read More »Student Agency and the Labor of Grading
Grading often emphasizes critique in ways that inspire fear and disengagement. Through generative assessment we aim to build relationships with our students, fostering intellectual development and enthusiasm for learning. In this workshop, we explore opportunities to provide feedback to students… Read More »Toward Generative Assessment
How can a critical approach to grading foster student agency and make grading a more meaningful, intentional process? This workshop will build on the ideas presented in the Towards Generative Assessment workshop and offer concrete practices to include students in… Read More »Student Agency and the Labor of Grading
Grading often emphasizes critique in ways that inspire fear and disengagement. This workshop will explore how generative assessment can affirm students’ interests, development, and academic skills. We will also provide instructors with tools to tackle one of the most unpleasant… Read More »Toward Generative Assessment: Challenging punitive systems of grading
Writing is a central aspect of academic life. As instructors, we regularly assign essays, compositions, proposals, annotated bibliographies, and final papers. There are, however, alternatives or accompaniments to these written assignments that may accomplish similar goals, or facilitate additional ones.… Read More »Reframing the Final Paper: Alternative and creative assignments
Have you ever felt concerned about your ability to provide constructive feedback to every student? Are you interested in building your students’ capacity to critically read and engage with each others’ work? Are you interested in building classroom community and… Read More »Peer Review
Are you feeling overwhelmed by end-of-semester grading? In this workshop, we’ll discuss how to streamline your end-of-semester workload by developing strategies to mark assignments, including papers and final exams, quickly and efficiently. We’ll discuss ways to write clear, high-stakes assignments… Read More »End of Semester Assessment
As teachers, we know the value of being reflective practitioners, but the hectic pace of the semester can make it difficult to build in time for such reflection. Getting into the habit of maintaining a teaching portfolio, which is often… Read More »Teaching Portfolio
