This 2-day training explores strategies to facilitate communication and understanding across differences in identity, perspective and experience. The August session will focus specifically on the classroom and will cover topics such as: how to create community agreements, how to address issues of psychological safety, policies that impact classroom interactions and discussions, and skills instructors need to facilitate dialogue and translate and share those skills with their students.
After this training participants will be able to:
- differentiate between debate and dialogue and reflect on the role debate and dialogue play in difficult conversations
- build dialogic and facilitation skills to increase collaborative understanding
- practice utilizing dialogic skills for de-escalation
- identify their and others' boundaries through the concepts of psychological safety, learning edges, and danger zones
- practice strategies for ending or postponing a harmful conversation
Click here to register for both the August 6 and August 7 sessions.
If you have registered for this event, or are on the waitlist and require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate, please contact drakeinstitute@osu.edu. Requests should be made at least two weeks prior to the event, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
All members of the university community are welcome in Drake Institute activities, programs, services, and employment —regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, HIV/AIDS status, military status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other bases under the law.
Institute for Teaching and Learning programming is offered in accordance with university guidelines associated with in-person and remote activities. The Institute will inform registrants of delivery modifications should those guidelines change.