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11:30am – 12:30pm

Implement Active Learning Design with Feedback Fruits

• Facilitators: Joanna Do & Feedback Fruits

Description: Join us to discover how Feedback Fruits facilitates learning journeys, offers insight into the learning process, and links asynchronous activities with class moments.

4pm – 5pm

Bridging The Class and the "Real World"

• Facilitator: Karina Lin-Murphy 

Description: In this workshop, we'll explore ways you can connect what students learn in class to their future practice – in their work or in their lives. We'll discuss how you can choose readings and develop activities that give your students a more genuine experience of using what they've learned in their work or in a new career. We'll also discuss ways you can bring what students are already experiencing in their jobs and experiences into the classroom.

6pm – 7pm

Using New Zoom Tools to Enhance Student Engagement

• Facilitators: Susan Goldstein & Michael Kilmurray

Description: Learn to effectively use tools that Zoom has recently developed such as Whiteboards with sticky notes and templates, more poll options, accessibility features, apps and more to keep your students engaged.

10am – 10:45am 

Content & Lecturing (HES Teaching Foundations)

• Facilitator: Zahra Ahmed

Description: In this workshop, we’ll talk about presenting and organizing the content –readings, slides, and more – in your course and finding the balance between giving information that students need without overwhelming them.

12pm – 1pm

It’s “Simple” to Create a Customized Syllabus

• Facilitator: Lisa Klein Pearo

Description: This session will review the more advanced options available to you to create a rich, comprehensive syllabus with our new Simple Syllabus Tool.

2pm – 3pm 

Teach Partnerships Spotlight

• Facilitators: Kerry Foley & Sara Makiya 

Description: In this session, Kerry Foley and Sara Makiya will review the Teach Partnership program and share recent projects. You’ll learn how faculty can collaborate with the Learning Experience Design team to deepen student engagement through targeted projects and interventions, such as redesigning activities and assessments, organizing course content in Canvas, and creating custom multimedia learning assets such as welcome or instructional videos, visuals, and infographics. 

10am – 10:45am 

Community & Interaction (HES Teaching Foundations)

• Facilitator: Zahra Ahmed

Description: In this workshop, we’ll talk about pedagogical practices you can implement in your Harvard Extension School class to build community and encourage interaction in your class. We will also discuss managing interaction in your Zoom classroom. 

11am – 12pm 

Instructor Chat for Management & Business Programs 

• Facilitators: Laura Wilcox & Susan Goldstein

Description: Management & Business Program Instructors, join us for an informal chat with Program Director, Laura Wilcox, where you can connect with other instructors, engage in conversation, ask questions about your courses, and gain new teaching tips from each other. Feel free to drop-in for any duration of the chat. 

1pm – 2pm 

Harvard Library Resources Q&A

• Facilitators: Jonathan Paulo, Mary Frances Angelini, Spruill Harder

Description: Do you have questions about HOLLIS? Would you like to learn more about connecting your students with research help? Do you have a question about Library Reserves?  Join Jonathan Paulo, Mary Frances Angelini, and Spruill Harder as they devote the time to any questions you have about Harvard Library access, resources, services, or collections.

5pm – 6:15pm 

Improv for Educators 

• Facilitators: Bridget Copes 

Description: In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore how the tenets of improvisation can help foster a supportive learning environment. Participants will exercise active listening skills, embrace mistakes as a part of growth, learn through play, and reflect on how improv’s “yes, and” philosophy can be helpful in the classroom.

10am – 10:45am 

Assessments & Feedback (HES Teaching Foundations)

• Facilitator: Karina Lin-Murphy 

Description: In this workshop, we’ll talk about assessments in its many shapes and forms, as well as keys to giving feedback your students can use to improve on their work and learning.

11am – 12pm 

Instructor Chat with Museum Studies Program 

• Facilitators: Katherine Burton Jones & Susan Goldstein

Description: Museum Studies Program Instructors, join us for an informal chat with Program Director, Katherine Jones, where you can connect with other instructors, engage in conversation, ask questions about your courses, and gain new teaching tips from each other. Feel free to drop-in for any duration of the chat. 

4pm – 5pm 

Instructor Chat for Math Education Program 

• Facilitators: Carolyn Gardener-Thomas & Susan Goldstein 

Description: Math Education Program Instructors, join us for an informal chat with Program Director, Carolyn Gardener, where you can connect with other instructors, engage in conversation, ask questions about your courses, and gain new teaching tips from each other. Feel free to drop-in for any duration of the chat.