Teaching Through the Body: An Introduction to Embodied Learning √ §
Explore how the body shapes attention, memory, & engagement.
Location
Engineering : 102
Date & Time
March 25, 2026, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Description
This interactive workshop introduces the core principles of embodied learning—an approach that recognizes movement, sensation, and physical experience as powerful contributors to how people think and learn. Participants will explore how the body shapes attention, memory, and engagement, then take part in an accessible movement activity designed to model embodied strategies that can be enacted in multiple contexts. The session will also invite participants to consider how similar practices might enrich learning in their own teaching practices. This workshop will be facilitated by James DeVita (Student Affairs).
√ Counts toward the ALIT Certificate
Please note that this session is in person only.
Lunch will be provided to everyone who registers and also confirms their attendance prior to spring break. Please click "Going" below to reserve your seat for this session. Please email fdc@umbc.edu
to note any dietary restrictions (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, food
allergies, etc.) by March 11. The deadline to register
for this event is the earlier of March 11 or when the
event reaches capacity. Please email fdc@umbc.edu
to be added to a wait list if the event is full. If you have
registered and find that you can no longer attend, please kindly release
your spot so that others may attend.
§ Counts toward the INNOVATE Certificate
Part of the FDC Advanced Topics Series
Launched in September 2021!
Sessions in this series are designed to delve deeper into special topics that synthesize multiple research-based ideas for cultivating student learning. During these sessions, faculty and staff colleagues will support your efforts to energize your classroom with classic and cutting-edge pedagogical approaches that will help you to ...
Launched in September 2021!
Sessions in this series are designed to delve deeper into special topics that synthesize multiple research-based ideas for cultivating student learning. During these sessions, faculty and staff colleagues will support your efforts to energize your classroom with classic and cutting-edge pedagogical approaches that will help you to ...
- Identify how to integrate complex learning science applications into your course design and delivery,
- Challenge your higher order thinking skills to investigate and assess new ways to foster student success, and
- Connect and collaborate with colleagues seeking to create exemplary learning exercises and environments across courses and learning opportunities.
- aspire to complicate and build on core pedagogical knowledge shared in other FDC programs, or
- wish to cultivate and apply learning research to innovative, engaging, and effective classroom practices.
Please note: This session is open to faculty and staff only.
