Assessing Equity: Reflecting on an Inclusive Course √ § Ͼ
Presentation by Dr. Bryan Dewsbury
Location
University Center : 312
Assessing Equity: Reflecting on an Inclusive Course √ § Ͼ – Online Event
Date & Time
November 2, 2023, 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Description
Following his powerful and widely lauded keynote at the Provost's Teaching and Learning Symposium in April 2023, we are excited to welcome back Dr. Bryan Dewsbury. In this session, he will be presenting on “Assessing Equity - Reflecting on the Elements of a Successful Inclusive Course Experience.”
In this talk, we will consider the non-cognitive features of the course experience as meaningful, not solely in service of grades, but as valuable constructs for themselves. We will discuss ways to assess the success of our approaches both during the experience, and in the post semester critical reflective stages. This process will reorient our thinking from the consideration of single factors that impact course success and grant us a process to facilitate the process of the permanent, yet beautiful journey towards inclusive course experiences.
Coffee, tea, and water will be provided to all participants registered to attend in person. The deadline to register
for this event in person is the earlier of Wednesday, October 25 or when the
event reaches capacity. Please email fdc@umbc.edu
to be added to a wait list if the event is full.
√ Counts toward the ALIT Certificate
§ Counts toward the INNOVATE Certificate
In this talk, we will consider the non-cognitive features of the course experience as meaningful, not solely in service of grades, but as valuable constructs for themselves. We will discuss ways to assess the success of our approaches both during the experience, and in the post semester critical reflective stages. This process will reorient our thinking from the consideration of single factors that impact course success and grant us a process to facilitate the process of the permanent, yet beautiful journey towards inclusive course experiences.
Dr. Bryan Dewsbury is an Associate Professor of Biology at Florida International University where he also is an Associate Director of the STEM Transformation Institute. He received his Bachelors degree in Biology from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA, and his Masters and PhD in Biology from Florida International University in Miami, FL. He is the Principal Investigator of the Science Education And Society (SEAS) program, where his team conducts research on the social context of education. He is a Fellow of the John N. Gardner Institute and a Director at the RIOS (Racially-Just Inclusive Open Science) institute. He conducts faculty development and provides support for institutions interested in transforming their educational practices pertaining to creating inclusive environments and in this regard has worked with over 100 institutions across North America, United Kingdom and West Africa. He is a co-author on the book Norton's Guide to Inclusive Teaching and author of the upcoming book What then shall I teach? - Rethinking equity in higher education. He is the founder of the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Deep Teaching Residency, a national workshop aimed at supporting faculty in transforming their classroom to more meaningfully incorporate inclusive practices. Dr. Dewsbury is originally from the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and proudly still calls the twin island republic home.
Please note that this is a HyFlex event! Please click “Going In Person” or "Going Virtually" below to reserve your seat for this
session. Please email fdc@umbc.edu
if you have any questions. If you have
registered and find that you can no longer attend, please kindly release
your spot so that others may attend.
A Google calendar invitation with a WebEx
link will be provided to all participants registered to attend online the day before the session.
§ Counts toward the INNOVATE Certificate
Ͼ CIRTL graduate students are invited to attend
