Workshops
Workshop sessions involve extensive interaction between presenters and participants around an idea or hands-on experience of a practice. These sessions may also take the form of a crafted panel, staged conversation, dialogue, or debate – all involving substantial interaction with the audience. [45 min. each]
Learning and Applying Moses' Five-Step Pedagogical Framework
Workshop Presentation Dr. Amy Gimino, Jennifer Mahlke
This workshop provides a true "learn by doing" experience for Moses’ Five-Step pedagogical framework (Moses and Cobb, 2001). Research indicates this student-centered pedagogical scaffolding framework promotes the learning of diverse leaners as students experience deeper learning through shared experiences (Ahn, et al. 2018). Moses’ Five-Step approach suits all disciplines and student populations. The first step involves a shared experience created by the instructor. The following steps rely on scaffolding of common everyday language and formal, academic language alongside student created and shared representations of the learning experience. This empowering framework allows students to collaboratively co-construct and create meaning and learn together by co-teaching. This type of active, engaging learning embraces and celebrates the diversity of our student populations and values and builds on their unique perspective in the world and learning environments. This hands-on workshop is designed to complement our Moses’ Five-Step Approach as a Student-centered Scaffolding Framework to Teach Diverse Learners presentation. Participants go through each of Moses’ Five-Step Approach as a learner and are provided with resources so they can design lessons using the approach to support learner diversity, collaborative learning, and a shift in learner agency.
Teaching Academy for Professors (TAP): Shifting Learner Agency through Student-Centered Pedagogies
Workshop Presentation Jennifer Mahlke, Amy Gimino
The Teaching Academy for Professors (TAP; https://www.teachacademyprofessors.org/) is a structured semester-long program at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona where a community of faculty from multiple disciplines co-construct knowledge on teaching and learning with assistance from more experienced facilitators (Ahn, 2019). Grounded in social constructivist theory (Vygotsky, 1978), TAP aims to shift learner agency away from the teacher to empower diverse learners to become more active participants in their own learning. Over the past 3 years, TAP participants have reported significant increases in their knowledge and application of student-centered pedagogical approaches and have demonstrated enhanced student performance after shifting learner agency in their classrooms (Ahn et al., 2019). This hands-on, collaborative workshop will provide participants with a glimpse into one of our collaborative TAP sessions while engage them in student-centered approaches recent TAP participants reported as most transformational to their teaching (i.e., communal notes, chunk and chew, graphic organizers and formative assessment). Our other workshop titled Learning and Applying Moses’ Five-Step Pedagogical Framework, will provide participants with a first-hand experience of an empowering five-step framework central to our TAP program (Moses, 2018; Moses & Cobb, 2001)
