Event Date & Time
Event Description
Cia Verschelden is the keynote speaker for Celebrate Learning Week 2021. If would like to participate in this workshop, it would be helpful if you also attend Cia Verschelden’s keynote presentation taking place from 10:00am – 12:00pm on May 18.
Bandwidth concept – scarcity steals mental bandwidth
The cognitive resources for learning of many of our students have been and are being diminished by the negative effects of persistent economic insecurity and discrimination and hostility against non-majority groups based on race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation or gender identity, and other aspects of difference. Recognizing that these students are no different than their peers in terms of cognitive capacity, we can implement strategies and interventions – in and outside the classroom – that show promise in helping students regain the cognitive resources to be successful in college.
In this session for graduate students and teaching assistants we will learn about several interventions designed to help students recover bandwidth, beginning with a strengths perspective about what skills and abilities they bring to the table – “funds of knowledge.” The interventions include values affirmation, connecting the known to the unknown, growth mindset, check-ins, and high-hope syllabi. How do you help yourself and each other maintain your own bandwidth while helping students regain theirs?
This session will be co-facilitated by Natalie Westwood, CIRTL Program Developer, Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology.
Bio: Cia Verschelden
Cia Verschelden is Special Projects Advisor for the Integration of Academic and Student Affairs at the Association of American Colleges and Universities. She recently retired as Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs at Malcolm X College – City Colleges of Chicago. She taught for over 25 years at two- and four-year institutions in social work, sociology, women’s studies, nonviolence studies, and first-year seminar. Her administrative posts have included department chair, institutional assessment lead, and vice president of academic and student affairs. Cia has a B.S. in psychology from Kansas State University, an M.S.W. from the University of Connecticut, and an Ed.D. from Harvard University. Her book, Bandwidth Recovery: Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Racism, and Social Marginalization, was published in 2017 and her new book, Bandwidth Recovery for Schools: Helping Pre-K-12 Students Regain Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Trauma, Racism and Social Marginalization, in 2020.
This event will be hosted on Zoom.
Venue: Online