College of Education alumni are invited back to campus for a day of professional development, networking, and inspiration. This event is an opportunity to learn from experts in the field as well as from your fellow colleagues and alumni. There will be educational addresses and breakout sessions alongside social and networking opportunities. We also want to learn from your classroom experiences and will have opportunities for discussion and sharing throughout the day. This year’s presentations will focus on the roles of research and inquiry in and beyond the classroom.
Attendees will earn professional development credit (8 CPE hours, which can count toward an exchange day) for their participation.
Breakfast and lunch are included in your registration.
SCHEDULE:
8:45 - 9:30: Registration and badge pick up, Coffee and breakfast will be served
9:30 - 9:45: Welcome
9:45 - 10:45: Keynote address by Katherine Bomer
Letting Our Students Teach Us: Taking a Researcher Stance in Our Classrooms to
Know What and How to Teach
10:45 - 11: Conversation with Katherine Bomer
11 - Noon: Presentations by the 2018 Alumni Teacher Research Grant Award recipients
Noon - 1:30: Lunch from Trudy’s
1:30 - 2:30: Breakout sessions led by UT faculty and alumni, Details below
2:30 - 3:30: Guided reflection
3:30 - 3:45: Break
3:45 - 4:30: Group discussion, Longhorn Teacher Creed, Closing
5-7: Optional Social, location TBA
ABOUT OUR KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Katherine Bomer, author of The Journey Is Everything, Hidden Gems, and Starting with What Students Do Best, is an internationally-known consultant and teacher of writing. She combines a teacher’s practical advice, a writer’s love of language, and a powerful plea for social justice (www.katherinebomer.com).
AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS:
“What will we do?”: Enactment of Critical Pedagogy in the Elementary Classroom
Chair: Saba Khan Vlach
Presenter: Dr. Keffrelyn Brown, Theory of Humanizing Critical Sociocultural Knowledge
Presenter: Sara Freund, Teaching About Discrimination
Presenter: Diana Garcia, Striving for Global Citizenship in a First Grade Dual Language Classroom
Presenter: Erin Green, Getting into Good Trouble: Growing Students as Activists through a Framework of Peacekeepers vs. Peacemakers
Presenter: Amelia Mahlstadt, Windows and Mirrors: Issues of Local and Global Poverty
What’s New in Global Literature for the K-12
Presenter: Rachel Meyer, Assistant Director, UT South Asia Institute and South Asia Specialist, Hemispheres Consortium
Presenter: Kate Aslan, Director of Outreach and Public Programs, UT Center of Middle East Studies and Middle East Specialist, Hemispheres Consortium
Using Literacy as a Tool in the Science Classroom: Investigations of Students’ Experiences within an Integrated Science-Literacy Unit
Presenter: Anne Daly-Lesch
(morning session details coming soon!)
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR DOOR PRIZE SPONSORS:
Banger's Sausage House and Beer Garden
East Side Pies
Hai Hospitality (Uchi and Uchiko)
Kendra Scott.
