Events

Monday, September 19, 2022 | 3:30-4:30pm GST | Campus Center (C2), HBCTL, Floor 3

Our students are experiencing trauma. The challenges brought forth by global disruptions, COVID-19 included, but also natural disasters and conflict, mean that our student body is experiencing a combination of traumas at this time. This trauma is different from regular stress because it persists.

In this session, we will discuss:

• the importance of building connections and fostering purpose
• building trustworthiness
• how to design and facilitate peer-to-peer activities that foster peer support in the classroom
• Navigating sudden shocks
• Review the importance of building connections between the students themselves.

Speaker:
Nancy W. Gleason, Director, HBCTL, Assoc. Professor of Practice, Political Science

Thursday, September 29, 2022 | 12:30-1:30pm GST | Campus Center (C2), HBCTL, Floor 3

Academics with various roles and responsibilities for educational leadership are increasingly required to account for research-informed, evidence-based, effective, efficient, and strategically aligned curriculum and pedagogical practices. In this interactive workshop presented by a leading expert Harry Hubball, faculty members will be engaged in a dialogue around context-specific educational inquiry (e.g., formulating your practice-based SoTL/SoEL research interests and aligned research methodology). The session will also address strategic dissemination considerations in peer-reviewed fora.

Speaker:
Professor Harry Hubball, The University of British Columbia, Canada

Friday, October 7, 2022 | 10:00-11:00am GST | Campus Center (C2), HBCTL, Floor 3

This session will address how to implement a mid-term course evaluation and how to reflect on and respond to the outcome responses. Mid-term course evaluations help students feel more engaged and committed to the course while giving you enough time to make teaching adjustments specific to their needs. They offer ample space for personalization and foster a culture of completion at the end of the semester. Giving students an opportunity to respond to the course in an anonymous format will encourage them to communicate responses that they may not feel comfortable providing in person – including positive comments. We will discuss how to share the results and take-aways with your students after reviewing the feedback and how to use such a conversation to further illuminate your teaching goals and expectations for students.

RSVP below. Light snacks will be served.

Speaker:
Nancy W. Gleason, Director, Hilary Ballon Center for Teaching and Learning
Associate Professor of Practice, Political Science

Tuesday, November 1, 2022 | 12:30-1:30pm GST | Campus Center (C2), HBCTL, Floor 3

Learn how the NYUAD Library can be a partner for your teaching practices with the targeted sharing of relevant library resources. The session will include guidance on incorporating information literacy practices into your own assessments and classroom activities, as well as how the library can support both you and your students in understanding information literacy objectives.

Lunch will be served. RSVP below for sustainable catering.

Speaker:
Beth Russell, Associate Director for Research Services and Strategy, Associate Academic Librarian for the Humanities
Grace Adeneye, Assistant Academic Librarian for the Arts

Tuesday, November 8, 2022 | 12:30-1:30pm GST | Campus Center (C2), HBCTL, Floor 3

In November 2022, Egypt will host the UN Climate Negotiations, COP27. The 28th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 28) to the UNFCCC is scheduled to take place from 6-17 November 2023 in the UAE. As aligned to Sustainable Development Goal 13 – Climate Action – University curriculums have a significant role to play in the integration of knowledge and action relating to climate. Join this session to hear from NYUAD faculty who are integrating climate issues into their course and gain inspiration to do the same. Collect ideas of how best to integrate this big 2023 event into future iterations of your course and meet others considering doing the same.

Speaker:
NYUAD Faculty will be sharing examples from their courses.

Lunch will be served. RSVP below for sustainable catering.

Wednesday, December 7, 2022 | 12:30-1:30pm GST | Campus Center (C2), HBCTL, Floor 3

Effective feedback helps enrich students' experience and move their learning forward. In an online environment, it is also a way to keep your learners engaged and on track. Join this session to learn more about the differences between formative and summative feedback, the elements of effective feedback, and evidence-based best practices to deliver it. We will also discuss strategies to make writing feedback more time-efficient.

Speaker:
Nancy W. Gleason; Director, Hilary Ballon Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Associate Professor of Practice, Political Science

Wednesday, August 24, 2022 | 11am-1pm GST | The Torch Club | Lunch Provided

Students at NYU Abu Dhabi bring extraordinary amounts of diversity to our community. This includes linguistic, ethinic, racial, religious, gender-based, socio-economic, and prior learning diversity. All of their experiences, neurodiversity, and aspirations inform the classroom context within which we meet them. Across the cohorts, they are experiencing a transition from high school to residential college life, or returning from study abroad, gearing up for their capstone thesis work, and managing finances, and their worlds outside of campus. The climate we as educators construct in the classroom and on the syllabus has implications for learning and performance. A negative climate may impede learning and performance. Hear from students themselves about what it is like to be a student here, and how you can best support their learning in your class.

Speakers: 

Mohamed Muqbel and Gloria Noh, NYUAD Students
Nancy W. Gleason, Director, Hilary Ballon Center for Teaching and Learning, Associate Professor of Practice Political Science, NYU Abu Dhabi
Kirsten Edepli, Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement and Engagement, Professor of Biology

Wednesday, August 24, 2022 | 3-4:15pm | Campus Center (C2), Library, HBCTL

Making connections with students and building trust are key to successful student engagement and inclusive learning. Establishing communication channels early on in the semester makes all the difference. Join this session for insights and best practices on getting to know your learners in week zero and week one to set up your learning community to empower each other through their strengths. This session will provide practical next steps to get to know your students. Join us to build communication for optimum student engagement and learning in our upcoming semester.

Speaker:

Nancy Gleason, Director HBCTL,  Assoc. Professor of Practice, Political Science

Wednesday, August 24, 2022 | 5:30-6:45 pm | Campus Center (C2), Library HBCTL | Dinner Provided

Rapidly changing advances in science and technology, along with the urgent needs of society, require continuous improvements and re-evaluations of our engineering education practices, and ultimately what and how we teach. This teaching workshop will touch on the need for advancing our engineering education practices in order to properly prepare future engineers. Join this session to gain insights from NYUAD engineering faculty member Mohammad Qasaimeh. He will share ideas on active-learning activities through lab-class integration, flipped exercises, real-life labs, and guest lectures. He will also lead a discussion with participants on the integration of topics relating to ethics, society, diversity, and inclusion in engineering curriculum.

Speaker:

Mohammad Qasaimeh, Associate Professor, Engineering

Inclusive Approaches to Linguistic Differences

Thursday, August 25, 2022 | 9:30-10:30am | Campus Center (C2), Library, HBCTL

NYU Abu Dhabi students and faculty bring a wide variety of linguistic contexts to their teaching and learning practices. The global spread of English has resulted in the emergence of a diverse range of postcolonial varieties of language around the world. Approaching our teaching methods with a Postcolonial lens is about keeping the human experience that has traditionally been either silenced or marginalized by dominant groups or discourses in the forefront of our approach to teaching. This session will be a mix of the why (theoretical) and the how (practical) of taking steps to foster belonging for more inclusive learning. Participants will learn and share about what it means to consider multiple Englishes in the NYUAD classroom.  Join this important conversation led by the Arts and Humanities Writing, Languages and Pedagogy Research Kitchen.

Speaker:

Aieshah Arif, Writing Instructor, NYUAD
Neelam Hanif, Writing Instructor, NYUAD
Sweta Kumari, Writing Instructor, NYUAD

Speakers Bios

Thursday, August 25, 2022 | 2:30-3:30pm GST | Online - Zoom

Close faculty and student interaction is a hallmark of our living and learning liberal arts context. As students enter and progress through their college years they are transitioning into adulthood while navigating demanding academic work. Mentoring students and advising them on the choices available to them is a key ingredient to student success. Whether you are mentoring students through undergraduate research in the Capstone experience, or you are advising on decision making and in-class work, being aware of best practices can help make a positive impact. Join this session to learn from NYUAD’s Director of Academic of the Academic Resource Center, Hema Nair, and teaching award winner, Professor Kinga Makovi about mentoring students at NYU Abu Dhabi.

Speaker:

Hema Nair, Director of Academic Resource Center, NYUAD
Kinga Makovi, Asst. Professor, Social Research and Public Policy

Thursday, August 25, 2022 | 4-5pm GST  | Online Zoom

Brightspace is NYUAD’s Learning Management System and it is full of useful tools for teaching students and engaging them. Brightspace is more than a means to deliver materials to students, it is an opportunity for engagement across linguistic differences and time. Join this session to learn about the messaging capabilities for staying in touch, the Discussion Forum, and the assessment feedback features. We will also share options for course organization that will help provide transparency to students about the course structure, as well as provide ease for your students to engage online.

Speakers

Jayson Cabrera and Ron Berry, NYUAD Academic Technology & Library
Nancy Gleason, Director HBCTL,  Assoc. Professor of Practice, Political Science

Friday, August 26, 2022 | 12-1:30pm GST | Campus Center (C2), Library, HBCTL

The NYU global network is changing the course evaluation questionnaire, reporting software, and infrastructure around measuring teaching, to better address bias and provide a better tool to enhance teaching. The new questionnaire reflects commitment to values in the institution, in our student body, and advances in the learning sciences. Join this session to learn about the new questionnaire and reflect on your teaching approach.

Speaker

Nancy W. Gleason, Associate Professor of Practice, Political Science, Director, Hilary Ballon Center for Teaching & Learning, NYUAD

Friday, August 26, 2022 | 3-4pm | Online Zoom

In order to foster belonging and motivation in our learners, we need to understand the stories of students in STEM practitioners, in all their difference and diversity. How can faculty be advocates for marginalized students, and impact the positive experiences of students in STEM? Dr. Pamela E. Harris, and Dr. Aris Winger will share key insights from their new book “Read and Rectify: Advocacy Stories from Students of Color in Mathematics.” This collection of narratives offers insights into better ways to be advocates and highlights the work that remains as we strive to help create communities where marginalized students thrive authentically in mathematics and beyond. Join this session to reflect on how to be an effective advocate in the STEM classroom. This session is co-hosted by the Science Division Faculty Diversity Liaison Diogo Arsénio

Speaker:

Dr. Aris  Winger, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Georgia Gwinnett College
Dr. Pamela E. Harris, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statics, Williams College

Speakers Bios

Dr. Aris Winger is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Georgia Gwinnett College. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Mathematics Enrichment through Diversity and Learning. The organization looks to work with educational institutions to better serve their underrepresented and marginalized groups. A consultant and math coach, his recent areas of interest include finding equity and belonging in the mathematics classroom and utilizing culturally relevant pedagogy to create safe mathematical spaces for people of color. He is a graduate of Howard University (B.S. Math), and Carnegie Mellon University (MS and PhD in Mathematical Sciences).

Dr. Harris is Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Faculty Fellow of the Davis Center and the Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Williams College. She co-hosts the podcast Mathematically Uncensored and she is President and co-founder of Lathisms: Latinxs and Hispanics in the Mathematical Sciences. Her research interests are in algebra and combinatorics, particularly as these subjects relate to the representation theory of Lie algebras. 

Wednesday, February 23, 2022 | 5:30-6:45pm GST | VIA ZOOM

This session will address how to implement a mid-term course evaluation and how to reflect on and respond to the outcome responses. Mid-term course evaluations help students feel more engaged and committed to the course while giving you enough time to make teaching adjustments specific to their needs. They offer ample space for personalization and foster a culture of completion at the end of the semester. Giving students an opportunity to respond to the course in an anonymous format will encourage them to communicate responses that they may not feel comfortable providing in person – including positive comments. We will discuss how to share the results and take-aways with your students after reviewing the feedback and how to use such a conversation to further illuminate your teaching goals and expectations for students.

Speaker: 

Nancy W. Gleason, Director, Hilary Ballon Center for Teaching and Learning, Associate Professor of Practice Political Science, NYU Abu Dhabi

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 | 12-1:15pm | Via ZOOM

Join Senior Lecturer Sabyn Javeri Jillani for a workshop and discussion on how to diversify your course content for a more inclusive learning experience. Jillani specialises in postcolonial feminism, South Asian literature, and creative writing. She will share insights on how to envision more cultures and knowledge systems in the curriculum with regards to what is being taught, and how it frames the world for our learners. Come join the conversation and take away practical advice for your own course.

Speaker: Sabyn Javeri Jillani, Senior Lecturer, Writing Program Arts & Humanities, New York University Abu Dhabi

Wednesday, March 9, 2022 | 12-1:30pm | Social Science Building (A5), Room 006 

Given the global expansion of English-as-a-medium (EMI) of instruction (Macaro et al., 2018), transnational higher education (TNHE) has grown exponentially. From a language policy perspective, this EMI-inflected educational sector has, however, been criticized for its hegemonic tendencies (Phan, 2017). Building on this critique, I problematize EMI language policy and practice in TNHE in order to understand how English monolingual biases are negotiated within multilingual academic and social settings. Using Western-partnered institutions in Asia and the Middle East as focal points, I examine how students, faculty and administrators reclaim local languages through making strategic policy and pedagogical decisions.

Speaker:
Peter de Costa, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Languages and Cultures; and Department of Teacher Education, Michigan State University.

Thursday, May 12, 2022 | 2-3:30pm | Conference Center (A6), Room 005

Teaching statements are important data points that help you evidence your impactful teaching. This session, developed in collaboration with the office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement and Engagement, will guide you on articulating your teaching philosophy as well as strategies to evidence its enactment in course design, pedagogy, and teaching methods. We will reflect together on our teaching practices and how they evolved over semesters. What innovations have we made in our courses? How can you evidence them to show your reflective practice? How do we incorporate our research into teaching? The focus will be on providing evidence of the many ways in which you have reached your learners. We will go over a suggested list of topics to include in your statement and help you tailor it to the needs of your respective committee chairs.

Speaker:
Kirsten Sadler Edepli, Ph.D. Professor of Biology, Global Network Professor of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, NYU, Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement and Engagement
Nancy W. Gleason, Associate Professor of Practice, Political Science, Director, Hilary Ballon Center for Teaching & Learning, NYUAD