Productive Graduate Student Teaching Retreat 2024 In-Person
Productive Graduate Student Teaching Retreat 2024:
Day 1: Teaching Excellence – May 8, 8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Day 2: Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging – May 9, 9:00 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Description: This productive retreat is designed to provide intentional space for individual and collective reflection about students’ own current or future teaching practices (or both). It is also designed with practical outcomes in mind. Graduate students should leave this retreat equipped with practical knowledge about creating and using different teaching-related documents, like syllabi and teaching statements. Graduate students will have an opportunity to connect with their peers, faculty members, and teaching consultants from the Center for Teaching and Learning throughout the retreat.
This working retreat has four primary goals:
- To provide meaningful time for graduate students to reflect individually on their current and/or future teaching practices;
- To equip graduate students with essential teaching tools and documents (e.g., writing or revising teaching and DEI statements, learning about restorative justice and conflict resolution in the classroom, and how D2L supports student learning) through practical workshops;
- To offer opportunities for dialogue about teaching between faculty and graduate students across the university, including in 1:1 individual consultations;
- To deepen the graduate student teaching community at Marquette.
*Breakfast, lunch, and snacks will be provided!
Photo from last year's Productive Graduate Student Teaching Retreat 2023:
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SCHEDULE |
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DAY 1: Teaching Excellence Wednesday, May 8: All sessions held in the Center for Teaching and Learning (3rd floor, Raynor Memorial Library) |
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8:30-9:00: Breakfast, coffee, registration |
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9:00-9:30: Welcome, invocation, and discussion: Who are you as an educator, and who do you want to be?
Host: Melissa Shew, Associate Director of Teaching Excellence, CTL Topics: The vocation of the educator Characteristics of dialogical pedagogy Being human in the classroom |
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9:30-10:45: Workshop Session #1: Crafting a Statement of Teaching Philosophy
Host: Melissa Shew Topics: What this document is and how it’s used How a statement of teaching philosophy is important for you How this statement communicates who you are to others (hiring committees, etc.)
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11-11:45: Discussion: Who do you want to be as an educator? Potential Topics: What does your application package say about you as an educator? What might you want to say in interviews? What is the relationship between research and teaching in different fields and kinds of schools? How do you present yourself to your students (current/future) as an educator? How do you want to be perceived, and why? |
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11:45-1: Lunch! |
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1-1:30: Ignatian Examen: The Importance of Cultivating a Learning Community of Educators Host: Jennifer Maney, Director, Center for Teaching and Learning |
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1:30-2:45: Workshop #2: Using D2L to Support Student Learning Host: Christina Johnson, Instructional Technologist, and eLearning Specialist |
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2:45-3:00: Wrap up and conclude.
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- Dates & Times:
- 8:30am - 3:30pm, Wednesday, May 8, 2024
9:00am - 1:15pm, Thursday, May 9, 2024
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Raynor Memorial Libraries 330B
- Audience:
- Graduate students and post-docs
- Categories:
- Special events