{"id":1306,"date":"2025-01-15T15:10:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T20:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/baldwin-clt-teaching-times\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2025-01-29T22:38:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T03:38:57","slug":"bclt-spring-semester-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/baldwin-clt-teaching-times\/announcements\/bclt-spring-semester-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"BCLT Spring Semester Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Faculty Writing Accountability groups with Lisa Flanagan <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One-hour meeting every two weeks during the semester to build community and&nbsp;accountability&nbsp;around&nbsp;writing&nbsp;projects (Note: this will not be&nbsp;writing&nbsp;time). Email Lisa Flanagan if interested at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:lflanag2@bowdoin.edu\">lflanag2@bowdoin.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Group 1 begins on Tuesday, January 28<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;at 1:00 p.m. in Magee&#8217;s pub<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Group 2 begins on Friday, January 31<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;at 1:00 p.m. in Magee&#8217;s pub<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Engaging Ideas Reading Group with John Paul Kanwit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please join us this semester for a reading group on John Bean and Dan Melzer\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Engaging Ideas: The Professor\u2019s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom.<\/em>&nbsp;Bean and Melzer\u2019s book provides the best guidance I have seen on how to foster critical thinking through well-designed and sequenced writing assignments. The authors also provide a wealth of practical information about how to grade and comment on student writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will meet twice a month for an hour beginning in early February and continuing through the end of the semester (skipping the spring break weeks). Participants will be provided with a paperback copy of the book (also available as an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ebookcentral.proquest.com\/lib\/bowdoin-ebooks\/detail.action?pq-origsite=primo&amp;docID=6632622\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">e-text<\/a>\u00a0through the Bowdoin Library).\u00a0<strong>If you are interested in joining us, email <\/strong>John Paul Kanwit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Spring Teaching Triangles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interested in a Spring 2025&nbsp;Teaching&nbsp;Triangle. (6-hour time commitment)<br>Complete the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/aiuC4BAkJp\">4-minute interest form here<\/a>&nbsp;before January 31. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/baldwin-center\/for-faculty\/teaching-triangles-program\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Teaching&nbsp;Triangles<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;program provides faculty with an opportunity to gain new insight into their&nbsp;teaching&nbsp;and students\u2019 learning through a non-evaluative, formative process of reciprocal class visits and reflection. The three people in a&nbsp;triangle&nbsp;agree to visit one class session for each participant over the course of a semester and meet to discuss what they learn from their visits about their own&nbsp;teaching. The goal is to create a respectful, reciprocal, reflective dialogue on&nbsp;teaching&nbsp;and learning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty Writing Accountability groups with Lisa Flanagan One-hour meeting every two weeks during the semester to build community and&nbsp;accountability&nbsp;around&nbsp;writing&nbsp;projects (Note: this will not be&nbsp;writing&nbsp;time). Email Lisa Flanagan if interested at&nbsp;lflanag2@bowdoin.edu. Group 1 begins on Tuesday, January 28th&nbsp;at 1:00 p.m. in Magee&#8217;s pub Group 2 begins on Friday, January 31st&nbsp;at 1:00 p.m. in Magee&#8217;s pub Engaging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-events","category-faculty-opportunities","category-on-campus"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kathryn Byrnes","author_link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/baldwin-clt-teaching-times\/author\/kbyrnes\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/baldwin-clt-teaching-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/baldwin-clt-teaching-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/baldwin-clt-teaching-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/baldwin-clt-teaching-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/baldwin-clt-teaching-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/baldwin-clt-teaching-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/baldwin-clt-teaching-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/baldwin-clt-teaching-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/baldwin-clt-teaching-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}