Actions Panel
9-25-18 Principles and Practices of Taking Action: UConn ECE HRTS & EDLR Training
Date and time
Location
University of Connecticut Storrs
Dodd Center Konover Auditorium Storrs, CT 06269Description
On Tuesday, September 25th UConn Early College Experience and the UConn Human Rights and Educational Leadership departments invite all certified UConn ECE EDLR and HRTS instructors to attend the annual professional development training.
Please park in the South parking garage and bring your ticket from the garage for a validation stamp. If you park elsewhere you may be ticketed or towed. For a campus map please see: maps.uconn.edu.
Principles and Practices of Taking Action
Purpose: ECE certified instructors for EDLR1162 and HRTS1007 will engage in a day-long professional development (PD) opportunity that will provide exposure to service-learning, community partnerships, and civic engagement through a human rights lens. Participation in this PD opportunity will count toward the ECE requirement for PD for its instructors.
Throughout the day ECE instructors will be encouraged to think critically about how and why we take action, as well as the consider implications for the multiple stakeholders involved when action is taken. For the purpose of this workshop, “taking action” will most often be defined by engaging in direct service.
Objectives: Participants of this professional development will
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Compare perspectives of various stakeholders engaged in service-learning opportunities
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Demonstrate understanding of the tenants of service-learning as pedagogical approaches to instruction, and its relationship to human rights education
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Apply service-learning framework to the context of their own high schools and community
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Design service-learning opportunity that is reflective of service-learning framework, as well as human rights education principles and practices.
Anticipated schedule of Events:
9:30am Arrival and check-in at Dodd Center
10:00am Theoretical overview of service-learning frameworks
Dr. Kari Taylor and Danielle Derosa will review the tenants of service- learning approaches and engage ECE instructors in a conversation around service-learning as a pedagogical approach.
10:45am Service-Learning panel
Comprised of a UConn faculty currently teaching a service-learning course, a student who has taken a service-learning course, and a community partner, this panel will explore the multiple perspectives of engaging in service-learning partnerships.
12:00pm Lunch (provided)
12:45pm Service learning framework activity
As part of a guided activity, ECE instructors will be asked to examine tenants of service-learning as a pedagogical approach to learning and begin to think about opportunities and challenges that exist for service-learning opportunities in their schools. This session will also allow the opportunity for ECE instructors to break into small groups or pairs to work on creating and/or refining service-learning opportunities that their students could engage in as a way to take action.
1:50pm Closing remarks
Organized by
UConn Early College Experience (ECE) is a concurrent enrollment program that allows motivated high school students to take UConn courses at their high schools for both high school and college credit. Every course taken through UConn ECE is equivalent to the same course at the University of Connecticut. Students benefit by taking college courses in a setting that is both familiar and conducive to learning.
High school instructors who have been certified through the University of Connecticut teach UConn ECE courses.
Established in 1955, UConn Early College Experience is the nation's longest running concurrent enrollment program and is nationally accredited by The National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP).