Creating connections: Exploring relational education practices to transform classroom communities

Do you struggle to connect with your students? Are you unsure how to really create a welcoming classroom community? You’re not alone. As instructors and students alike navigate our own complex lives, it can be difficult to come together to grow and learn in our disciplines. Relational education practices are here to help. By facilitating the creation of meaningful connections between instructors and students, these powerful pedagogical tools can have a widespread positive impact on both instructors and students. Join Lilly Conference Fellow Dr. Alex Berglund as she shares the multitude of relational educational practices she explored at this year’s Lilly Conference, an innovative teaching and learning conference that focuses on innovative and evidence-based teaching strategies to advance student learning. During the workshop, participants will explore, discuss and model several concepts and practices, including micro affirmations, sustainable course design and giving student-led learning experiences. At the close of the session, attendees will have collaboratively and individually created a list of relational educational practices that can be immediately enacted to transform their classroom spaces. 

This workshop will be held both in-person and virtually for your convenience.

• Monday, Oct. 23, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. (in person)
• Friday, Oct. 27, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. (virtual)

Register to attend either occurrence.