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  • Click here to view/print out the Third Annual Faculty Professional Development Day Program.

Conversations about Teaching:
Diverse Students. Diverse Methods. One Mission.

Keynote Speaker:

Professor in the Program in Adult Education and the Institute for Women's Studies at The University of Georgia, Dr. Juanita Johnson-Bailey researches culturally inclusive pedagogies and offers professional development in related areas of teaching and research.

BSC has become an institution energized and remade by a wide variety of teaching/learning and research initiatives that have flourished in the fertile ground of our campus community. We invite you to a day of discussion and practice devoted to deepening our collective understanding of these initiatives and what they mean day-to-day in our classrooms; to the students that populate them; the campus, with its mission and history; and the communities beyond Bridgewater that are home to instructors, students, and initiatives alike.

Faculty will have the opportunity to attend workshops and focus tables on a variety of topics including evaluating speaking, culturally inclusive pedagogies, preparing students for reading difficult texts, and working with second language students.

Please join us at our third annual faculty professional development day on Tuesday, 5 May 2009 (reading day), in the Moakley Center. We promise useful information and lively discussion with thoughtful colleagues.

The May 5 schedule overview is available here (PDF); click here (PDF) for the full schedule. The overview will provide you with enough information to get you where you want to go; please print the full schedule only as needed. Limited copies of the full schedule will be available on May 5.

Dr. Juanita Johnson-Bailey, the keynote speaker of the day, will be co-presenting a workshop entitled "Culturally Inclusive Research = Comprehensive, Accurate, & Holistic Inquiry" with Dr. Donna Drake-Clark and Dr. Mitsunori Misawa, all from University of Athens, Georgia. In an effort to offer you a glimpse of Dr. Johnson-Bailey's work, and why the conference organizers are so excited to be hosting her, we have provided links to appropriate samples of her recent work:

Conversations about Teaching is hosted by:

· The Office of Teaching and Learning

· The Coordinators for First & Second Year Seminar

· The Coordinator for Service Learning                                           

· The Coordinator for Communication Studies 130

· The Writing Program Administrator for First Year Writing

· The Office of Institutional Diversity & the Faculty Associate in the OID

· Writing Across the Curriculum

· Global Studies

· Second Language Services

· The Bridgewater State College Center for Sustainability

· The Office of Undergraduate Research & the Adrian Tinsley Program for Undergraduate Research

*Dr. Johnson-Bailey's participation is generously funded through the Office of Institutional Diversity and the Nellie Mae Foundation through a Project Compass grant.

Last Modified: September 25, 2009