In the March workshop, , participants will design learning opportunities for students that encourage critical thinking. They will identify how to create assignments that improve upon a GenAI response by prompting revisions and additions to GenAI output.

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Where: online/Zoom

NOTE: everyone is welcome to attend this event — including those who are completely new to FIEAL series and/or communities of practice!

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PARTICIPATING IN THE SERIES
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1. Workshops
The workshops are offered monthly in the Fostering Intellectual Engagement through Active Learning [FIEAL] series. All Montclair faculty and staff are invited to attend as many or as few workshops in the series as they choose.

2. Community of Practice
The Community of Practice (CoP) meets twice a month. During the meetings, instructors discuss and strategize implementation of the monthly topics. Participants, including faculty and staff, work together to deepen their use of active learning in their courses, documenting and reporting outcomes of their experimentations.

*Interested in joining? Please complete .

NOTE: You don’t need to be part of the CoP to attend the workshops. All are welcome!

ABOUT THE FIEAL FACILITATOR
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Dr. Patricia M. Virella, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, has joined OFE as a Faculty Leader for AY24. Dr. Virella’s research focuses on implementing equity-oriented leadership through leader responses, programmatic interventions, and preparation. Dr. Virella also studies equity-oriented crisis leadership examining how school leaders can respond to crises without further harming marginalized communities. She seeks to answer research questions to enable transformation and liberation in school leaders, districts and policies.

As part of the program, we will invite registrants to complete a brief intention-setting worksheet that we will review; in addition, we will offer short 1-1 coaching sessions. Don’t miss this opportunity to advance your research in a supportive, collaborative environment.

Coffee and light refreshments will be available throughout the mornings in the OFE Office.

Led by Emily Isaacs and Catherine Keohane

This event will take place online on Thursday Dec 7th @3pm. Please register to receive the link.

Student response to Simple Syllabus has been positive. Here are a few comments from a recent survey:

• “It made [the syllabus] simple, quick, and accessible.”
• “It helped keep everything organized.”
• “It gave me a better understanding of what would be covered in the course, as well as what would be expected of me.”
• “I was more willing to view the course syllabus since the Simple Syllabus was easier to look at and read.”

Join us online on Tuesday, November 28, 2-3pm to hear from faculty who have piloted this tool. Please register to receive the zoom link.

Additionally, you will get the opportunity to receive confidential, supportive feedback: the course is facilitated by the OFE team members who will review your submissions and get back to you with personalized tips and guidance.

After completing the course, you will maintain access to it on Canvas, so you can come back to it at any time.

If you are interested, please use the button below to sign up.

Where: ADP Center OR Zoom

�ճ����Office for Faculty Excellence and the ADP Center for Learning Technologies are pleased to announce the revival of the Annual Teaching and Learning Showcase highlighting the work of Montclair faculty. The hybrid conference will be held on Tuesday, May 2 (a reading day).

Please join us for this day-long showcase of Montclair’s teaching and learning excellence. Presenters include faculty, staff, and some of their students sharing their projects, practices, and pedagogical experiments, and fostering cross-disciplinary conversations. Sessions will run from 9 am – 4 pm, and you are welcome to attend as many of the sessions as you’d like.

Coffee and lunch will be provided for in-person attendees. In-person attendees will also have the opportunity to visit our showcase lounge and meet with representatives from Advising, CAST, the CWE, ITDS, OFE, and Sprague Library to ask quick questions and to learn about resources available to support them in their teaching.

Presenter: In this lecture Pavlo Lushyn (Educational Foundations) will make a case for the end of the “PTSD industry” (Stephen Joseph) and the emergence of a more generative view of trauma articulated by the Post-Traumatic Growth Movement.  As a practitioner of both psychotherapy and teaching, Professor Lushyn’s lecture integrates theory with stories of post-traumatic growth, reflecting his decades of work in and out of the classroom, and his most immediate experiences supporting Ukrainians experiencing the trauma of war today. Professor Lushyn will draw on his experiences and expertise to suggest implications for teaching – relevant to all instructors as we continue to encounter a student population that exhibits mental health disturbances in response to traumatic experiences.

Respondent: Laura Quiros (Social Work and Child Advocacy) will provide an initial response to Professor Lushyn’s talk based on work using trauma-informed pedagogies to advance social justice by building social connection, inclusion, and empathetic accountability.

This session will be introduced by Pablo Tinio, Chairperson, Educational Foundations.