Setting the Stage for Learning: Applying a pedagogy of play(s) to improve your teaching
This exciting instance of the TeLEd Monthly Event Series will feature Lindsay Doukopoulos, an award-winning poet & playwright who now leads faculty development at Auburn University (USA) as the Associate Director for Educational Development in the Biggio Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning. Dr. Doukopoulos is a rising star in the field of university pedagogy and co-hosts the Centering Centers podcast for the POD Network (North America's largest educational development organization). She also teaches playwriting workshops for the Auburn Theater Department in her spare time, which is especially relevant to her talk. This promises to be a very energetic and engaging session!
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In this workshop, participants will be invited to reconceive their role in the classroom as a dramatic role and lean into the artifice of classroom-learning by incorporating principles of dramaturgy and dramatic storytelling into their teaching. We will explore the somewhat paradoxical idea that the best play(s) challenge the idea(l) and authority of “a single author” just as the best classes are designed so that students take center-stage as authors of their own learning. When faculty become intentional about breaking the “fourth-wall of learning,” students become less fixed in their own preconceptions about their role in the classroom and more willing to play: to try on other perspectives and to understand themselves as learners-playing-students, rather than as students-playing-learners. This workshop will offer examples and research on the impact of these practices and guidance for getting started for faculty of diverse disciplines and experience levels.