Butler Summer Faculty Development Workshop
July 31 and August 1, 2012, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Widening the VIEW: Culturally-Focused Learning and
Asset-Based Thinking™
All Butler faculty and Student Academic Affairs instructional
staff are invited to participate in a summer workshop on
culturally-focused learning and asset-based thinking. Asset-based
thinking highlights assets of all students and then uses these
diverse assets to enhance student learning by focusing on issues of
equity and social justice as they apply to pedagogy, learning
styles, curriculum, and assessment. The program, facilitated by
Lori Dixon, Ed.S., supports shared conversations and professional
development among Butler faculty and instructional staff and
Shortridge Magnet High School teachers.
Goals of the workshop:
- To determine how teachers' personal perspectives relate to the
classroom outcomes and practices
- To examine our own microcultures and to understand our personal
culture and how that effects our classroom
- To understand group identities, stereotypes, and their effects
on community
- To define culturally-proficient instruction
- To learn how to motivate students through a strengths-based
approach in order to initiate and create a culture of change
Click the following link for the Butler Summer
Faculty Development Workshop Application
Application:
Please explain, in 1-2 pages, why you
are interested in the Butler Summer Workshop on Widening the VIEW:
Culturally-Focused Learning and Asset-Based Thinking™. The
open-ended nature of this request is deliberate in order to
encourage faculty from all departments and programs and all levels
of experience to consider their own teaching experiences and
interests.
Issues you may (but need not) address include: your teaching
contexts (class size, type of course such as Core or major, Early
College Program course) and how these lead you to wish to explore
multicultural teaching and learning; experiences, problems, or
questions that incite your interest in the workshop; any previous
exposure that you may have had to issues of multiculturalism in
teaching and learning, including pedagogical strategies; your sense
of yourself as a teacher and how that might relate to the topic of
the workshop.
To help us plan for the workshop….If you have a specific goal or
outcome for your participation in the workshop, or if there are
specific topics or issues you would like to see addressed within
this workshop's topic, or suggestions for readings or other
materials, please offer your ideas and suggestions. The
presence or absence of a response will not affect your
selection-this simply provides you an opportunity to help shape the
workshop.
Deadline for Receipt of
Applications - Extended to July 6, 2012.
Please send applications
electronically to: facultyaffairs@butler.edu
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Participants will receive $100/day as a stipend OR as course
development funds to enable you to implement asset-based thinking
in your courses, assignments, projects, or in-class exercises**.
Readings and resources to enhance your teaching, and lunch and
refreshments will also be provided, as well as collegial
camaraderie among participants.
**In keeping with practices that
govern other internal grant opportunities, faculty on 9-month
contracts are eligible for the stipend or course development fund;
faculty on longer contracts are, of course, welcome to participate
and will receive materials, meals, and refreshments.
This workshop is jointly sponsored the
Early College Program of the Butler
University-Indianapolis Public Schools Partnership (Ruth Lilly
Philanthropic Foundation Grant), the Faculty Development
Program at Butler University, and the College of
Education.