谢泼德教学中心 & 学习

香农Audley

Associate Professor of Education and Child Study

让弗格森

Director of 学习, Research, and Technology

杰西卡Gersony

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

斯科特拉康姆猪

Assistant Professor of Government and of Statistical and Data Sciences

米兰达McCarvel

Multilingual Writing Specialist; Lecturer in Writing & 公共话语、教育 & 儿童研究, & 人类学 

Borjana成员

Rosemary Bradford Hewlett 1940 Professor of Engineering

罗伊奥沙利文

经济学教授

Marney普拉特

Senior Laboratory Instructor in Biology

弗雷泽马厩

Professor of Art, Associate Dean of Integrated 学习

明子,高桥

日语高级讲师

卢斯病房

Laboratory Instructor in Geosciences

Traci-Ann温特

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies

伊丽莎白·斯托德·普莱尔

历史学教授

凯特Queeney

化学教授

This time at Smith is one unlike any other. The vast majority of our students were away from campus, 远程学习环境, both across the US and across the world for quite a bit of time. When COVID-19 shut down our campus in the Spring of 2020, 我们中的许多人认为这将是一个短暂的休息，从日常生活中，一切都会很快恢复正常, 而是, this has become a sustained experience for our 社区. During the 2020-2022 academic years, we plan to use 连接 as our guiding principle in our Sherrerd Center programming. With trauma from the global pandemic, the continuation of brutal racial injustices in the US, and a contentious US election cycle all coalescing, it is arguably more important than ever to feel 连接 to our 社区—and yet, it has never been harder. In the work that we do at the Sherrerd Center for teaching and learning, 我们希望以反种族主义为中心, 在创伤中教学, and the best inclusive practices in the remote classroom so that we can remain 连接: to our core mission, and to each other in the Smith 社区.

While solitude has its purposes and charms, many activities like teaching and learning benefit from partnership. 就像我们谢泼德中心相信有很多不同的教学方法，所有的教学都是可以改进的, we understand that there are a variety of different kinds of partnership (student-faculty, 同行老师, 机构, 社区, 等.) and all partnerships are improvable. During the 2018-19 and 2019-20 academic years, 我们计划用伙伴关系作为一个镜头，通过它来决定我们大约一半的教学艺术午宴节目.

Such programs might privilege pursuing such questions as:

• What conditions make for the most fruitful partnerships?
• 我们从中学到了什么 student-faculty pedagogical partnership program?
• 学院应该支持、发展和维持哪些其他类型的师生伙伴关系
• Can all students be partners in teaching and learning?
• How can we enable collaborative learning in and out of the classroom?
• In what ways can partnerships between the curricular and co-curricular be enhanced?
• 存在哪些障碍，我们如何降低这些障碍，让同事参与合作教学?
• How can we better support staff partnerships with students and faculty?
• What would greater collaboration between different units of the campus enable?

In Engaging 学生 as Partners in 学习 and TeachingAlison Cook-Sather等人. argue that good partnerships require respect, reciprocity, and shared responsibility. 我们决心共同努力，确保我们在澳门葡京博彩软件的伙伴关系遵循这些原则.

In 2015, 谢泼德中心顾问委员会的成员们决定，在2016-18年度的项目安排上，我们要比以往更加用心. We surveyed attendees at 教学艺术午宴, 与澳门葡京博彩软件社区的其他成员进行了交谈，并进行了一次在线调查，以收集对未来主题的建议. 最终, 在收到大量关于该主题的编程请求后，我们决定专注于创建包容性学习环境. 因此, 我们选择了教学艺术午宴的主题，并邀请了Kelly Mack和Beverly Daniel Tatum等嘉宾来推广这一目标. 从一开始, 然而, we understood that the word “inclusive” was in danger of becoming meaningless, 因此，我们一直在起草和修改以下声明，试图澄清我们的意图. We welcome suggestions for revision.

2016 - 18, 谢泼德中心将专注于提高我们创造和维持有效和包容的学习环境的能力, regardless of whether course content areas directly engage with controversial topics. 一个包容的学习社区——而不是简单的多样化的学习社区——是一个每个人的声音都受到同等鼓励和欢迎的学习社区. But this kind of 社区 is what inclusion is all about. There are no formulae for achieving this. 因此, we will pay special attention to fostering conversations, workshops and other programming about how to create inclusive learning communities.

What can professors convey through their course planning, 材料的选择, classroom practice and assessment to make deep learning accessible to all students? 教授们自己必须学习什么，才能更好地教授越来越多样化的学生群体? 创新教学法如何促进有能力工作的反思和创造性学习者的社区, playing and solving the world’s problems together?

我们在全球性和地方性挑战的背景下开展这项工作，这些挑战有些是悲情的，有些是平凡的，它们都威胁着包容性，使创造包容性学习环境变得越来越重要. 其中一些挑战吸引了全世界的注意力，而另一些则是私下感受到的. Instead of simply reacting to each challenge, our programs and collaborations seek to increase our communal preparedness, our individual empathy and our 机构 commitment to inclusive teaching.