304: AU Signature Skills Demo: Lightning Talks & Artifact Gallery Walk

Date: Wednesday, August 19

Time: 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM

Presenters: Aaron Grocholski (Senior Professorial Lecturer, CAS | Physics), Dora Oduor (Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, CAS | Sociology), Jody Hagen-Smith (Undergraduate Advisor and Adjunct Instructor, Baker School of Education), Kevin Boyle (Professorial Lecturer, SPA | Justice, Law, Criminology & Security) & Tracy Spesia (Senior Professorial Lecturer, Baker School of Education)

Moderator: Samantha Cohen (CFE Faculty Associate and Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer, Baker School of Education)

Session Description:

Come hear from five faculty members who have been engaging in planning all summer to embed the AU Signature Skills within their courses, across the AU Core, AU Encounters, the Baker School of Education, and with a focus on national and global communities. Within the session, we will engage in a short moderated set of lightning talks, where each faculty member will share their process and lessons learned, as they have aligned their courses and assignments to the following AU Signature Skills: Deep Reflectiveness & Self Direction; Civic Engagement; & Principled Disagreement and Seeking Common Ground. Following the lightning talks, each faculty member will set up a station around the room to share more about their planning and assignments. There will be opportunity to look at artifacts from the courses and to engage in smaller group dialogue. To conclude the session, we will have time for some large group questions and planning.

The AU Signature Skills  were developed by a group of AU faculty and staff this spring to operationalize AU’s goal to help students develop into thoughtful and engaged professionals, and are an extension of AU’s Meet Our Moment Strategic Plan.