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2024 Teaching & Learning Symposium

Join us for the 20th annual UW Teaching & Learning Symposium! This tri-campus event showcases UW instructors’ new and exciting work in the classroom.
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The UW Teaching & Learning Symposium brings together faculty, staff educators, and graduate instructors from across UW’s three campuses to share and explore teaching practices that support student learning and engagement. The Symposium is an opportunity to connect with colleagues, share your work, learn new teaching strategies, and build your portfolio of teaching-related scholarship and engagement.

Event Information

April 16, 2024 | 1:00-2:30 pm
Walker Ames Room, KNE 225 (Zoom option available)

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Theme

This year’s Symposium focuses on the theme of “Empowering students.” The theme acknowledges that our classrooms, like the world around us, are filled with power dynamics – novice/expert, student/instructor, listener/doer, marginalized/privileged. How does or should power shape learning environments? What are ways to acknowledge, redistribute, and responsibly use power in the classroom? How can our teaching practices empower students?

Keynote Event: “Empowering students through our teaching”

Tuesday, April 16, 2024 | 1:00-2:30 pm | Walker Ames Room KNE 225 (Zoom option available)

The event will begin with a keynote address by Professor Cate Denial, immediately followed by a panel discussion with UW faculty about how to empower students through our teaching practices. Register today. 

A headshot of Cate Denial, a white woman with short red hair and glasses, smiling at the camera

Professor Cate Denial, Knox College

What does it mean to “empower” students? What kinds of power are routinely denied to them, or used to limit their aspirations? What does it mean to meaningfully share power with our students? Empowering students involves attending to the issues of justice and injustice at work in their lives, believing them when they tell us about their experiences of higher ed, and believing in them as co-creators of our classroom communities. Professor Denial approaches these issues by prioritizing kindness in her teaching – a kindness that transcends the ‘let’s get along’ dictates of being nice.

Cate Denial is the Bright Distinguished Professor of American History and Director of the Bright Institute at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois and author of the forthcoming book, A Pedagogy of Kindness (2024). A Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians, she is the winner of the American Historical Association’s 2018 Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award and consults on pedagogy in the U.S., U.K., and Australia.

a woman teaching students

Discussion with UW Educators

Directly after Professor Denial’s address, a panel of UW educators will engage in a discussion with the speaker about the power dynamics in their classrooms and how their teaching empowers students, followed by a Q&A with the audience.

More information about our panelists coming soon.

 

 

Coming Soon! Symposium Showcase

The Symposium Showcase is a publicly-accessible digital gallery celebrating evidence-based, learner-centered, reflective teaching at the University of Washington. Check back on April 16 to see the work of faculty, staff, and students featured in this year’s showcase.

Check out last year’s Teaching & Learning Symposium Showcase!

Questions?

Please email teaching@uw.edu.