Strange Bedfellows? Engineering Education & The Performing Arts

Kathy Becker — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 20:03:45 +0000

Strange Bedfellows? Engineering Education & The Performing Arts Kathy Becker Wed, 09/27/2017 - 16:03

Can we make our classroom environments more engaging while remaining true to ourselves and our course content? In this active workshop, Robert Danisch, Chair of Drama and Speech Communications, will share tips from the world of communication and the performing arts to help us enhance our classroom presence to foster active student engagement.

Through this session we will examine the unlikely allies of engineering education & the performing arts and discover strategies we can easily implement to promote student engagement.

Co-facilitated by Marc Hurwitz, Conrad Business, Entrepreneurship & Technology Centre, and Gordon Stubley, Associate Dean, Teaching, this session will give participants the opportunity to

Acquire & practise strategies for crafting an engaging teaching presence
Hear from a panel of effective teachers about how they promote student engagement.

Special thanks to panelists Dan Davison (ECE), Maud Gorbet (SyDE), and Mark Pritzker (ChE).

All ��ݮ��Ƶ Engineering faculty members, sessional instructors, and teaching assistants are encouraged to attend — registration is not required. Refreshments will be provided. Please contact Kathy Becker if you have any questions about this event.

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Strange Bedfellows? Engineering Education & The Performing Arts