What does it mean to educate the whole person? Faculty often think of themselves as educators of the mind, but students come to the classroom as whole persons, with all of their social, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual experiences and concerns. Furthermore, decades of scholarship on learning and development suggest that the growth of the mind is inextricably linked to the growth of the heart and of the spirit.
This series of workshops, sponsored by the Vice-Provost for Graduate Education, the Office of Graduate Student Life, and the Center for Student Formation, is aimed at graduate students in all disciplines who intend to teach in higher education. It is meant to complement discipline-based programs on teaching, as well as the teaching workshops offered by the
The objective is to help our graduate students understand how the complex human beings they will soon encounter as teachers and mentors learn and develop through the undergraduate years. Lunch will be provided at all sessions.
Program Dates
Wednesday, October 21: "Does Service Lead to Learning? Experiential Learning Across the Classroom"
Dr. David McMenamin, Director of the PULSE Program, Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy (12-1:30pm, McGuinn 5th floor lounge)
Thursday, November 12: "The Faith Lives of Undergraduates: Spiritual but also Religious"
Fr. James Fleming, S.J, Assistant to the Vice President for University Mission and Ministry (12-1:30pm, Hovey Library)
Wednesday, February 10: "Talking About Tough, Divisive, and Potentially Hurtful Issues in the Classroom"
Dr. Ana Martinez-Aleman, Associate Professor (Higher Education) and Department Chair Educational Administration and Higher Education Department(12-1:30pm, McGuinn 3rd floor lounge)
Tuesday, March 16, 2010: "Ignatian Pedagogy: Whole Persons Teaching Whole Persons"
Fr. John Murray, S.J (12:30-2:00pm, McElroy Conference Room)
Your RSVP is encouraged; please email Linde Haskins at linde.haskins.1@bc.edu. If you have questions you'd like the facilitator to consider beforehand, please include them with your RSVP.