Consider submitting a proposal “(Re)imagining Humanities Teaching” conference being held on June 8-10, 2017. Details can be found below:
Proposal Deadline: Proposals will be considered on a rolling basis until December 15, 2016 or until all session slots are filled
Session Length: Each 45 minute session will include the work of two or three people.
Submission Details: Proposals should be emailed to CHRP2017@ku.eduYour
400-word proposal should address the five prompts below. References or works cited may exceed the 400-word proposal limit. The review of session proposals will be blind to your identity, so please avoid comments in the proposal that might make that apparent to a reader.
- What are you studying in your teaching? Identify the course context and the nature of your inquiry.
- What have you added or changed to improve the understanding you see in your students? Describe your innovations in assignments and/or learning activities.
- What have you observed (or you will have observed by June) that will give you feedback on the success of your efforts? Be specific about the type of student work you [will] look at for evidence of whether your efforts have been successful, and what approaches you [will] employ to evaluate the relative quality of student understanding in this work.
- What lessons do you take from what you have done and how will your next offering of this and other courses be influenced by your reflections on this work?
- What knowledge or experience could you share with the participants in your session?
- What plans do you have for engaging the audience for your proposed session? Describe how the audience will be involved in the session.
Conference Link: https://cte.ku.edu/chrp#conference
(Re)imagining Humanities Teaching invites proposals for sessions to be held at the June 2017 conference. Proposals can be for a single presentation, a symposium of linked presentations, a roundtable discussion, or a workshop, each led by one person or a team of people. Proposals should include explicit plans for engagement with participants who attend the session. Workshops and roundtable discussions might use the whole session; two individual presenters would divide the time in a session. If participants wish to share a session and connect their work, they should make a joint proposal that reflects that.
Sessions should represent inquiry into a teaching and learning question within humanities courses or interdisciplinary courses that include humanities work. Your line of inquiry could focus on any innovations you have undertaken. Examples might include developing an integrative intellectual goal for students, or a challenge in teaching humanities that has led you to try new or innovative materials and learning activities in your course. Your session should identify the nature of the inquiry, present the innovations you have made, report what you have observed in your students’ work that relates to your innovation, and offer your reflections on lessons learned or next steps. The sessions will allow enough time for colleagues to offer their own experiences, comments, and questions about what you have done.