Teaching and Scholarship Hub

What have we learned over the past decade from teaching first-year seminars? What has worked, and what can be improved? As we move forward with our modified, fall-semester-only FYSs, this interactive workshop will ask participants to reflect upon their best—and worst—experiences teaching their first-year seminars. What do you do that contributes most to your students' learning and development? What would you never do again?

Join FYS colleagues from across the university as they reflect upon their experiences teaching in our nationally recognized FYS program.

Michael Reder, Director of the Joy Shechtman Mankoff Center for Teaching & Learning at Connecticut College, will also be joining us. Among his areas of interest are effective teaching and learning, especially using writing and other active teaching techniques to enhance student and faculty learning, and the creation of faculty teaching and learning centers at small colleges.