Register Today for Interactive Virtual Workshop on Equitable and Inclusive Classrooms
Tom Rice American Astronomical Society (AAS)
Are you an instructor who is interested in designing your courses to be more equitable? Join leaders of the Physics & Astronomy Faculty Teaching Institute (FTI) for a virtual workshop on equitable and inclusive classrooms! This free, interactive workshop will be held on Friday, 3 May, from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm ET and is open to all college and university instructors in the astronomy and physics communities.
FTI is a professional development program for physics and astronomy faculty focused on effective and inclusive teaching practices. In this two-hour, highly interactive session, FTI leaders Rachel Scherr and Ed Prather will give you experience with teaching methods that are energizing, equitable, and fun. This session will demonstrate equitable course design and classroom facilitation in the context of quantitative problem-solving. All are invited to attend, whether you participated in the previous workshop on inclusive teaching or you are a first-timer to these workshops!
Also save the date for our next virtual education workshop:
- 15 May, 2:00–4:00 pm ET
Effective Practices for Physics Programs (EP3): How to be a (Future) Leader – Register here!
This virtual workshop series, brought to you by AAS and the American Physical Society and funded by a venture grant from the American Institute of Physics (www.aip.org), will continue this fall and next spring with more virtual workshops on education. Look forward to workshops on the following topics:
- Equitable mentoring practices, presented by Inclusive Graduate Education Network (IGEN) & Equity in Graduate Education;
- Undergraduate recruitment and retention, presented by EP3; and
- Inclusive classroom teaching techniques, presented by FTI.
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