DII Sessions: 2016
Monday July 11, 2016
TOPIC: Perceptions of Diversity and Inclusion in Society
Librarian Perspectives:
Tahirah Akbar-Williams
Librarian forthe College of Informatio Science and the College of Education
University of Maryland Libraries, College Park, MD
Dr. Yukako Tatsumi
Curator of the Gordon Prange Collection & East Asian Studies Librarian
University of Maryland Libraries, College Park, MD
Instructor's Biography:
Dr. Alexis Y. Williams is a lecturer in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She also serves as Assistant Director for PROF-it (Professors-in-Training), a University System of Maryland teaching professional development program designed for STEM graduate students and postdocs, and open to any who are interested in academia.
Understanding creative and connected teaching and engaged mentorship have become Dr. Williams’ professional passions. She has taught at the university level for eight years in the content areas of developmental science and educational psychology. She also served as a mentor for the NSF-funded PROMISE program: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) and as Coordinator of Graduate Programs for the Teaching and Learning Transformation Center (TLTC; formerly the Center for Teaching Excellence).
Dr. Williams enjoys teaching about teaching. Her dissertation work surveyed high school teachers, analyzing the connections between teachers' beliefs about students and teachers' own efficacy and emotional experiences in the classroom. Through her research, mentorship, and teaching in the areas of achievement motivation and the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL), she has learned that teachers’ social and emotional development are at least as essential as content knowledge and teaching skills for the success of any student.
Session Overview:
Topic: Identity and the creative learning process
Outcomes: 1) Define identity and creativity, explore the basics of identity development (self and other; multiple identities), and discuss the conditions which inspire creativity in learning; 2) design a plan for "shared creativity in teaching and learning"
Structured sub-topics:
Assignments:
The purpose of this assignment is to help you reflect and plan ahead for helping people learn and create with an appreciation for multiple identities (including your own).
For tonight, First:
Please complete the Learning and Creating Session survey - your answers will be emailed to you if you enter an address. You will receive the following prompts:
Dr. Williams’ take home: “Love and learn” - you must be inherently valuable - valued - FIRST in order to open up emotionally and intellectually to learning and creating. So as an educator, I must love (appreciate, respect) FIRST and my students (and I) will learn together as a result.
What is your take-home and how can you begin to apply it to your work with students and educators?
TOPIC: Perceptions of Diversity and Inclusion in Society
Librarian Perspectives:
Tahirah Akbar-Williams
Librarian forthe College of Informatio Science and the College of Education
University of Maryland Libraries, College Park, MD
Dr. Yukako Tatsumi
Curator of the Gordon Prange Collection & East Asian Studies Librarian
University of Maryland Libraries, College Park, MD
Instructor's Biography:
Dr. Alexis Y. Williams is a lecturer in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She also serves as Assistant Director for PROF-it (Professors-in-Training), a University System of Maryland teaching professional development program designed for STEM graduate students and postdocs, and open to any who are interested in academia.
Understanding creative and connected teaching and engaged mentorship have become Dr. Williams’ professional passions. She has taught at the university level for eight years in the content areas of developmental science and educational psychology. She also served as a mentor for the NSF-funded PROMISE program: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) and as Coordinator of Graduate Programs for the Teaching and Learning Transformation Center (TLTC; formerly the Center for Teaching Excellence).
Dr. Williams enjoys teaching about teaching. Her dissertation work surveyed high school teachers, analyzing the connections between teachers' beliefs about students and teachers' own efficacy and emotional experiences in the classroom. Through her research, mentorship, and teaching in the areas of achievement motivation and the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL), she has learned that teachers’ social and emotional development are at least as essential as content knowledge and teaching skills for the success of any student.
Session Overview:
Topic: Identity and the creative learning process
Outcomes: 1) Define identity and creativity, explore the basics of identity development (self and other; multiple identities), and discuss the conditions which inspire creativity in learning; 2) design a plan for "shared creativity in teaching and learning"
Structured sub-topics:
- How to connect identities (mine/yours; ours/theirs; us/them etc.)
- The shared learning process
- What creativity looks like during learning/creating/making
- Shaping and scaffolding learning for identity fulfillment and deep learning
Assignments:
The purpose of this assignment is to help you reflect and plan ahead for helping people learn and create with an appreciation for multiple identities (including your own).
For tonight, First:
Please complete the Learning and Creating Session survey - your answers will be emailed to you if you enter an address. You will receive the following prompts:
- Here are my take-home messages about learning and creating in diverse groups - what I want to remember in my future work that will help students and educators (including myself) learn and create...
- This is what I would change or adjust in this session to make it even better…
- (Optional) I have these final thoughts after today...
- Copy and paste one of your take-home messages from the first prompt into our discussion board for today
- Comment on one another’s take-home messages in the discussion board (see example below)
Dr. Williams’ take home: “Love and learn” - you must be inherently valuable - valued - FIRST in order to open up emotionally and intellectually to learning and creating. So as an educator, I must love (appreciate, respect) FIRST and my students (and I) will learn together as a result.
What is your take-home and how can you begin to apply it to your work with students and educators?