June 3 presentation to focus on innovative teaching methods in 'teaching for tolerance'

Submitted by admin on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 9:17am

Western Washington University’s Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment will host its annual Innovative Teaching Showcase Learning Event from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, June 3, in College Hall 310 on the WWU campus.

The theme of this year's showcase is “Teaching for Tolerance.” On June 3, community members are invited to meet the featured instructors, view videotaped interviews with those instructors and find out more about how instructors at Western are incorporating inclusive practices in their courses.

Each spring, the CIIA publishes a new online edition of its “Innovative Teaching Showcase,” detailing innovative teaching practices of several WWU faculty members.

The 2010-11 Showcase features Nicole Brown (Department of English), who teaches a visual rhetoric class focusing on social justice issues; Jill Heckathorn (Department of Physical Education, Health, and Recreation), who focuses on social justice by using experiential and service learning throughout her curriculum; and Carolyn Nielsen (Department of Journalism), who incorporates diversity and representation issues in her newswriting and reporting classes.

For more information on the 2010-2011 Innovative Teaching Showcase, visit http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/showcase2010/ or contact Justina Brown at (360) 650-7210 or via e-mail at Justina.Brown@wwu.edu.