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Professional Development Book Club

Dedicating time to reading is a part of our personal and professional development. Reading and learning together can accelerate our learning, inspire new ideas, develop a common language, and boost our campus culture.

Dr. Jennifer O’Hara and Sarah Tronkowski will be running a once-a-month book club. Please join us for a monthly discussion in the library where we will explore relevant topics in higher education, teaching, and professional development. We hope that by breaking the book down into smaller sections, everyone will be able to make time in their busy schedules.

As was suggested by our new VP Dean of Academic Affairs, Dr. Tony Wohlers, the first book we'll read is Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom by Kelly A. Hogan and Viji Sathy. Our campus library has a multi-user license for this eBook so we can all read together. If you want to buy the physical book, the ISBN is 978-1952271632. 

Second Book Club Meeting

Read through the first five chapters

Friday, March 28th

3:00 pm

Library Board Room

 

Current Book Club Selection

Inclusive Teaching

Award-winning teachers offer practical tips for addressing inequities in the college classroom and for making all students feel welcome and included. In a book written by and for college teachers, Kelly Hogan and Viji Sathy provide tips and advice on how to make all students feel welcome and included. They begin with a framework describing why explicit attention to structure enhances inclusiveness in both course design and interactions with and between students. Inclusive Teaching then provides practical ways to include more voices in a series of contexts: when giving instructions for group work and class activities, holding office hours, communicating with students, and more. The authors finish with an opportunity for the reader to reflect on what evidence to include in a teaching dossier that demonstrates inclusive practices. The work of two highly regarded specialists who have delivered over a hundred workshops on inclusive pedagogy and who contribute frequently to public conversations on the topic, Inclusive Teaching distills state-of-the-art guidance on addressing privilege and implicit bias in the college classroom. It seeks to provide a framework for individuals and communities to ask, Who is being left behind and what can teachers do to add more structure?