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PROF-it Series: "Inclusive Pedagogy" workshop: April 13

Center for the Integration of Teaching, Research, & Learning

Location

Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : Open area

Date & Time

April 13, 2018, 12:00 pm2:00 pm

Description

The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) and the Professors-in-Training (PROF-it) segment of PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) are co-sponsoring a regional workshop on teaching. Come and learn a method of teaching that incorporates dynamic practices and learning styles and multicultural content to promote student academic success.

Are you interested in learning a method of teaching that incorporates dynamic practices and learning styles and multicultural content to promote student academic success? We invite you to join us for this workshop.


Inclusive Pedagogy

  • Speaker:  Dr. Karen Fleming, Johns Hopkins University
  • Date: Friday, April 13, 2018
  • Time: Noon – 2 PM
  • Location: UMBC Campus, Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery, 7th Floor – Open Area
  • Lunch will be served
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Dr. Karen Fleming is a Professor of Biophysics in the TC Jenkins Department of Biophysics at Johns Hopkins University. Her lab works in discovery to fill the scientific pipeline. "Her research is motivated by the power that a deep understanding of the physics/biology intersection can bring to disease, evolution, and biological design."

Dr. Karen Fleming was awarded the 2016 Thomas E. Thompson Award from the Biophysical Society, a Department of Defense Career Award, the Arne Tiselius Young Investigator Award and the Johns Hopkins Diversity Leadership Council award.

In addition to her scientific accomplishments, she has been a champion of Women in STEM, getting awarded grants to run workshops and seminars to overcome bias and barriers to women in STEM fields.

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"Instead of providing something different or additional for children who experience difficulties in their learning, inclusive pedagogy seeks to extend what is ordinarily available to everybody."

Florian, L. and Black-Hawkins, K., 2011. Exploring Inclusive Pedagogy. British Educational Research Journal, 37(5), pp. 813-828. 


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Please RSVP: 

Please click the “I Can Attend” button below.

To share with guests who  do not have a UMBC ID,  please have them send an email to promisestaff@gmail.com with the subject “Inclusive Pedagogy,” and include their contact information.

Make sure to mark your calendars and thank you!