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Community-Based Teaching

Teaching and Learning for Community Impact

This Spring 2024 learning community is a place where instructors can explore a range of topics, challenges, opportunities, and tangents that arise within the wide world of community-based teaching.

In this setting, we use "community-based teaching" as shorthand for practices such as community-engaged teaching, service-learning, social action teaching, and more. What these practices all have in common is that they bring students, faculty, and community partners together in pursuit of community-defined, mutually beneficial goals.

In practice this may look like: 

  • A social action course that challenges students to identify and work to change policy  

  • A service-learning course that combines classroom and experiential learning through student volunteering and reflection

  • A community-engaged course in which significant portions of the syllabus are co-planned, or even co-taught, with community partners

  • Or another form of community-based teaching and learning or engaged scholarship

MEETING DETAILS 

There will be five in-person meetings. Meetings will be held from 12:00-1:00 PM in the first floor conference room of Booker House. Lunch will be provided.

Participants may be asked to complete readings related to community-based teaching prior to meetings.

DATE 

SPEAKERS AND TOPICS 

Wednesday, February 7

CL Bohannon - Associate Professor in the Landscape Architecture Department and the Associate Dean of Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, UVA School of Architecture

Topics: Planning and delivering conference presentations on community-engaged teaching and public service work

Wednesday, February 21

Carah Ong Whaley - Academic Program Officer, Center for Politics

Topics:

  • Supporting student civic engagement and electoral engagement, from within the classroom and programs

  • Levels of civic engagement among students here at UVA

Wednesday, March 27

Steve Parks - Professor in the Department of English, Faculty Fellow on the Middle East & South Asian Track in the Global Studies Program

Topics:

  • Engagement between classrooms and global partners

  • Community-driven and collaborative writing projects, bringing students and community partners together

Wednesday, April 10

Speaker TBA

Tentative topics:

  • Engaging local history (including historians and knowledge-keepers) through community-based teaching

  • Practical considerations of site-based work, including transportation, scheduling

Wednesday, April 24

Michael Palmer - Barbara Fried Director, Center for Teaching Excellence 

Topics:

  • Equitable grading

  • Creating an approach to grading that works for individual instructors; taking into consideration time consuming nature of community-based courses wherein student development and output may be more difficult to assess



PARTICIPATION

These sessions are open to any UVA colleagues interested in community-based teaching, engaged scholarship, and university-community partnerships, including full-time and part-time faculty (tenured/tenure-track, AGFM), graduate students, postdocs, and staff.

SPONSORS

This learning community is organized with support from the Center for Teaching Excellence and Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Outreach.

Event Details

  • When:
    • Wednesday, February 7, 2024, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
    • Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
    • Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
    • Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
    • Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
  • Where: Booker House, first floor conference room
  • Format: In-Person
  • Audience: Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdocs

Questions about the event?

Contact edb2q@virginia.edu.