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Graduate Teaching Toolkit: Accessibility and Flexibility for Universal Learning

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Time: Tuesday, October 22, 2024 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Location: Ohio Union Interfaith Prayer & Reflection Room

Many graduate students will confront the challenges associated with course design: either as a graduate student instructor, while preparing materials for the academic job market, or in their early career post-graduation. This semester, in Graduate Teaching Toolkit, the Drake Institute’s workshop series for graduate instructors, we’ll explore each step of the course design process. Toolkit workshops are designed to support participants’ professional development, engage them in reflecting on, discussing, and sharing their teaching practices, and build community between graduate instructors on campus who are passionate about improving their teaching. All graduate students, regardless of teaching experience, are welcome to attend.

  • In this workshop, we will explore the second principle of Universal Design for Learning: Representation. Participants will be introduced to strategies to foster a flexible and accessible classroom and activate students’ prior knowledge to promote deep learning.  

      As a result of attending this workshop, participants will be better able to...

  • Understand the second principle of the Universal Design for Learning framework: Representation 
  • Articulate what accessibility and flexibility mean in their specific teaching context 
  • Identify techniques for fostering a more accessible classroom environment 

Devon Stith
stith.51@osu.edu
614-247-1972

If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Devon Stith at stith.51@osu.edu or 614-247-1972. Requests made one week in advance of the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

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