Online Teaching Conference 2020
Rigor through Empathy
becoming a warm demander
Short URL to this site: tinyurl.com/warm-demander
Description
If you could make just a few simple tweaks to your online teaching that would ensure more students feel safe and apply themselves more fully in your course, would you do it? Join us for an inspirational story that demonstrates the power of becoming a “warm demander” (Kleinfeld, 1975). Drawing from more than forty years of educational research about supporting minoritized students, we will examine the link between positive student-instructor relationships and increased student engagement. In this time of stress and uncertainty, relationships are more important than ever. Get ready to see your students push themselves to make you proud!
Speakers
Michelle Pacansky-Brock
Michelle Pacansky-Brock @brocansky is faculty mentor for online teaching and learning with CVC-OEI/@ONE, a statewide project of the California Community College system, and the author of Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies. Michelle started teaching in the California Community College system 21 years ago and fell in love with teaching online in 2003. Michelle is leading a California Education Learning Lab grant that explores the impact of humanized online teaching on equity gaps in online STEM courses. Learn more about Michelle at brocansky.com.
Aloha Sargent
Aloha Sargent @AlohaSargent is Technology Services Librarian at Cabrillo College and has been designing and teaching online courses for over 10 years. She is a Lead Course Reviewer for the CVC-OEI and co-facilitates two @ONE courses: Online Teaching & Design, and Peer Online Course Review. Aloha also serves as an OER Liaison and instructional designer. She spends so much time working online that she once accidentally called her youngest son "Canvas"!
Fabiola Torres
Fabiola Torres @iLearnNow is an ethnic studies faculty at Glendale Community College and facilitates the @ONE courses, Equity and Culturally Responsive Teaching in the Online Environment and Humanizing Online Teaching and Learning. Fabiola found her purpose in education at Los Angeles Valley College from 1990-1994 (ok... It took me 4 years to transfer). She academically flourished with her fellow first generation, college student activists. Currenlty, she attends Zoom parties with her LAVC, life-long friends. (We're still holding MEChA meetings.)