All portfolios with the keyword "reading skills"

Title	Author	Discipline	Keyword(s)
Teaching Essential Skills through Primary Sources and Small Group Discussion — Jennifer L. Weber (2017)	Weber	History	assignment design, critical reading, critical thinking, reading skills, research skills
Improving Class Discussions to Develop Linguistic and Cultural Proficiency — Ketevan Kupatadze, Elon University (2017)	Kupatadze	Spanish	assignment design, critical reading, critical thinking, foreign language, reading skills, research skills
Becoming Better Storytellers: The Use of Writing Workshops in an Introductory Journalism Course — Katie Fischer Clune, Rockhurst University (2017)	Clune	Journalism	labs, learning outcomes, reading skills, research skills, student development, use of class time
Generating Facility with Primary Texts and Conveying Relevance in the Rhetorical Tradition—Dave Tell (2017)	Tell	Communication Studies	assignment design, class time, reading skills, writing assignments

News & Notes

Spring 2021: Revolutionizing Academia: Engaging Anti-Racism and Restructuring Curricular Practices Workshop now has openings in a new Wednesday series.

Please contact Judy Eddy at jeddy@ku.edu if you'd like to register.

Wednesday, 2/17/21 @ 2:00pm-3:30pm: Deconstructing Racism and Colonialism in the Classroom
Wednesday, 3/10/21 @ 2:00pm-3:30pm: Engaging Anti-Racism and Resisting Colonial Curricular Practices
Wednesday, 4/14/21 @ 2:00pm-3:30pm: Disrupting Systems in Academia

Friday workshops are now full. Please contact Judy Eddy at jeddy@ku.edu if you'd like to be put on a waitlist.

Friday, 2/12/21 @ 2:00pm-3:30pm: Deconstructing Racism and Colonialism in the Classroom
Friday, 3/05/21 @ 2:00pm-3:30pm: Engaging Anti-Racism and Resisting Colonial Curricular Practices
Friday, 4/02/21 @ 2:00pm-3:30pm: Disrupting Systems in Academia

Spring 2021: Join our CTE Learning Community: Teaching at a Predominantly White Institution (PWI) on Zoom

Thursday, 2/11/21 @ 11:00am-11:55am: The Importance of Language: What Instructors Want to Be Called
Monday, 2/22/21 @ 2:00pm-2:55pm: Band-aids v. Sustainable Change on Campus
Thursday, 3/11/21 @ 11:00am-11:55am: Getting Caught Off Guard and Confronting Students’ “-isms”
Monday, 3/22/21 @ 2:00pm-2:55pm: Topic to be decided by learning community
Thursday, 4/8/21 @ 11:00am-11:55am: Topic to be decided by learning community
Monday, 4/19/21 @ 2:00pm-2:55pm: Topic to be decided by learning community

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