Campfire - Stories that Teach: Using Emotion to Deepen Student Learning

About this event

Campfires are meant to serve as a follow-up to our 30-minute Sparkshops. These workshops are designed to support you in turning Sparkshop ideas into manageable, meaningful, and practical elements of your teaching practice.

As the semester moves towards its end, students and instructors alike may be feeling a mix of fatigue and anticipation. This period, between mid-semester routines and end-of-term closure, offers an opportunity to pause and reflect. Grounded in Sarah Rose Cavanagh’s work on emotion in learning, this workshop explores how engaging students’ emotions – through storytelling, mindfulness, Joy Cards, and other reflective activities – can strengthen presence in the classroom. Emotions stick with students, helping them make connections, step out of their comfort zones, and engage in meaningful ways. Storytelling can reach all kinds of learners and make revision and performance central to learning.

This in-person workshop will introduce a range of strategies and tools from brief in-class activities to longer assignments and explore how instructors can adapt them for the end of the semester and carry these approaches forward into future courses.

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This offering is part of our UDL Sparkshop and Campfire series'. Select the "UDL" tag below to view more upcoming CTL programs on this topic.

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