Sherrerd Center for Teaching & Learning

News & Events

Demonstration of HistoryMakers Digital Archive

Tuesday, March 27, 2018, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. in Campus Center 204
Event open to faculty, staff and students.
Lunch provided (meat, vegetarian, vegan, GF options). Please RSVP by March 23rd.

Smith College Libraries and the Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning invite you to a lunchtime demo and discussion of the HistoryMakers Digital Archive, with HistoryMakers founder and Executive Director - Julieanna Richardson, and co-presenter Dionti Davis. The HistoryMakers Digital Archive is an extensive video archive of African-American oral histories that is newly available through Smith College Libraries. Explore how this collection of 19th, 20th, and 21st century narratives can be a resource for your research and teaching. This resource can help Smith instructors create and maintain inclusive learning environments.

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Summer Institute: Student-Faculty Pedagogical Partnership

May 22, 2018 & May 23, 2018, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
A maximum of 10 Smith College faculty members will spend two full days on the following:

• Reading and discussing relevant publications on student-faculty partnerships.
• Focusing on the potential of partnerships to interrupt bias, to support the development of classrooms more welcoming to a diversity of students, and contribute to the design of inclusive curricula.
• Hearing from students at Smith and elsewhere about their experiences and perspectives on learning, teaching and partnership.
• Preparing to participate in a partnership during the 2017–18 academic year.

To apply for the institute, send a letter of interest by April 1, 2018, to Floyd Cheung, director of the Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning. In your application please describe possible courses in 2018–19 that could benefit from student-faculty partnership. Faculty participants in the institute are not required but are strongly encouraged to participate in the pilot program itself. Student partners selected later may be eligible for grants or other compensation.

Please refer to our Pedagogical Partnership Page for more information about the program.

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Teaching and Learning in Tumultuous Times

As fall classes begin, we return to the familiar rhythm of the academic year. At the same time, however, all of us—students, faculty and staff—are affected by events in the world. Right now, we find ourselves teaching and learning in the wake of violence in Charlottesville and in the middle of hurricane season. If you are looking for resources, we recommend a webpage on Teaching After Charlottesville by Derek Bruff and our own PDF on Teaching in Tumultuous Times. 

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Pedagogical Partnership Program in the SAQ

An article about the Smith College Pedagogical Partnership Program was included in the Fall 2017 Smith Alumnae Quarterly. Flip to page 9 to read the article featuring Angelica Vargas '17, Tina Wildhagen, associate professor of sociology, and Floyd Cheung, director of the Sherrerd Center for Teaching & Learning and professor of English languages and literatures and American studies.