CIE, Libraries, and Teaching Academy to explore teaching, learning through reading groups for faculty

The Teaching Academy, Center for Instructional Excellence, and Purdue Libraries are inviting faculty to join Purdue's faculty teaching and learning reading groups in the spring semester. These reading groups will bring together faculty from around the campus in small groups to discuss how recent books about the classroom and teaching and learning may inform what they do.

For the spring semester, participants will read “Teaching to Transgress" by bell hooks. The book challenges many of our preconceptions about teaching, asking us to rethink what teaching means and what we can offer our students. It is one of the most widely read and frequently discussed works on pedagogy of the last half century.

Participants will read the book over the course of the semester, meeting once each month to discuss the ideas, theories and application for this semester and in the future.

Participants can choose to meet 2-3:30 p.m. Thursdays or 10-11:30 a.m. Fridays on the following dates:

* Thursdays: Feb. 7, March 7, April 4 and April 25.

* Fridays: Feb. 8, March 8, April 5 and April 26.

Faculty who would like to participate during spring 2019 should fill out an online questionnaire by Friday (Jan. 18) providing information about themselves and their availability.

Those who cannot make it this semester but are interested in faculty reading and learning communities, or who have suggestions for future books/topics, should contact Dan Guberman at dguberma@purdue.edu.