In response to last Spring’s Teaching Complex Topics series, this Fall, the Adams Center is hosting Teaching Squares focused on teaching complex topics.
Teaching Squares provide a supportive, collaborative way to learn from colleagues across campus. Through classroom observations, conversation, and shared reflection, you’ll gain fresh perspectives on your teaching while contributing your own experience and expertise.
How do Teaching Squares work?
- Faculty will be placed in interdisciplinary groups of three or four.
- Each group will meet at least once a month throughout the Fall semester.
- Participants will share course materials, offer constructive feedback, and observe one another’s teaching.
Participant Expectations
- Identify an aspect of your course or teaching on which you’d like feedback.
- Observe at least one fellow group member’s class and receive at least one classroom observation yourself.
- Meet regularly as a group—over coffee, a meal, or in the Adams Center. (We’ll even provide a Bean voucher or AC lunch to help fuel the conversation!)
- Keep all observations and feedback confidential within your Teaching Square. Focus on formative growth, not evaluation.
Inviting colleagues into your classroom and sharing your course materials can feel vulnerable. Yet those conversations often lead to some of the most meaningful professional growth. Teaching Squares create a space to reflect, encourage one another, and discover new ideas alongside faculty from across the university.
If you’d like to participate, email Laura Carroll or Amy Boone by Friday, September 4, to sign up.
We hope you’ll join us this fall!