Discussion Group
Community-Engaged Teaching Discussion Group
Teaching and Learning for Community Impact
This Fall 2024 discussion group is a place where instructors can explore a range of topics, challenges, opportunities, and tangents that arise within the wide world of community-engaged teaching, community-based teaching, service-learning and other practices that unite classroom with community.
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 six in-person meetings. Meetings will be held from 12:00-1:00 PM. The meeting location and topics will vary by week. Lunch will be provided. Participants may be asked to complete readings related to community-based teaching prior to meetings.
DATE | TENTATIVE TOPICS |
|---|---|
Wednesday, September 4 CTE Library | Personal Introductions Who has convened for this discussion group? What is everyone’s experience and interest in community-based teaching or community engagement? Setting Intentions Week to week, what can this group expect to do? Week to week, what practices can we employ, and what intentions can we set, that will create the best environment for learning and progress? Community-Engaged Teaching, To Begin What is community-engaged teaching? What forms can this kind of teaching take? What are the benefits (as defined by “the literature” and by discussants) as well as the costs? |
Wednesday, September 18 CTE Library | Plan A: Day of Service For some participants, your department may have arranged for you to participate in the Charlottesville Day of Service. If so, we urge you to join your departmental colleagues for this annual event. Plan B: Colleague Case Study If your department has not made plans to involve you in the Day of Service, please join us for the regularly scheduled discussion group in the CTE Library. CL Bohannon (Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Associate Dean of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for the School of Architecture) will convene a discussion with UVA colleagues and guest presenters about their recent experience launching a community-engaged course. |
Wednesday, October 2 CTE Library | Engaged Scholarship Conference Introduction If you were to set a goal of presenting at a conference for community-engaged scholarship within the next five years, what steps should you take now to prepare? CL Bohannon will provide an overview of top engaged scholarship conferences; writing to the audience; conference abstracts, and more. |
Wednesday, October 23 Booker House, 1st floor conference room | Community-Engaged Research with Indigenous Communities with Lora Henderson Smith Lora Henderson Smith is Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development. Her work centers on school mental health and culturally responsive practices for teachers, with a significant emphasis on supporting Native American youth. Henderson Smith incorporates Indigenous Research Methods, including the “4 Rs of Indigenous Research:” Respect, Relevance, Reciprocity, and Responsibility. |
Wednesday, November 6 Booker House, 1st floor conference room | Funding Your Work with the Office for Corporate and Foundation Relations Colleagues from UVA’s Corporate and Foundation Relations team are joining us to provide an overview of their office’s service, including: help locating funding, grant advice and management, as well as their perspectives from the field on emerging interest areas for funders. It’s the day after the general election. Are there any connections to be made between the election experience and outcomes and the community-engaged classroom? We will take time to discuss this event as a group. |
Wednesday, November 20 Booker House, 1st floor conference room | Discussion with Louis Nelson Louis Nelson is a Professor of Architectural History and Vice Provost for Academic Outreach. The Office for Academic Outreach counts community-engaged teaching as among its many charges. Louis would like to hear from faculty about their experiences, questions, and aspirations for UVA’s plans around community engagement and teaching |
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, general faculty), graduate students, postdocs, and staff. No prior experience is required. You can attend any individual session or the whole series.
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, September 4, 2024, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
- Wednesday, September 18, 2024, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
- Wednesday, October 2, 2024, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
- Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
- Wednesday, November 6, 2024, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
- Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
- Where: Various Locations
- Format: In-Person
- Audience: Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdocs
Questions about the event?
Contact edb2q@virginia.edu.