Rachel Song featured panelist in UW Teaching & Learning Symposium keynote event on empowering students through teaching. Song is mentored by Cynthia Levine.
Rachel Song, a UW Psychology graduate student in the Social & Personality area, will be featured in this year’s UW Teaching & Learning Symposium keynote event (April 16, 1pm, KNE225). Rachel will be part of a panel focused on the theme of “empowering students through teaching." The panel will be preceded by a keynote talk by Cate Denial (Knox College), an award-winning scholar and author of the forthcoming, A Pedagogy of Kindness.
The keynote address and panel, Empowering students through our teaching, will take place on Tuesday, April 16, 2024 from 1:00-2:30pm in the Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall 225 and on Zoom.
Register here: https://eventactions.com/eareg.aspx?ea=Rsvp&invite=gcpkep3y2sncmtx8v3r6z73a9nvs8ftmuar7btuvzgg0xb3pp1nx
"Our decision to invite Rachel as a panelist stemmed from a project she and a group of other RAs and TAs developed to help faculty design more inclusive courses. Rachel's been a terrific collaborator so far and we’re very excited to showcase the good work coming out of Psychology." -- Penelope Adams Moon, PhD, Director of the UW Center for Teaching and Learning and Affiliate Assoicate Professor, Department of History.
Rachel was part of a graduate student committee that created a standardized syllabus rubric to support faculty in strengthening the inclusivity of their course syllabi, and by extension, the course itself. Using the rubric, the committee provides qualitative and quantitative feedback on course content, course climate, and course structure for instructors who opt-in to having their syllabus reviewed.
The full list of committee members are:
- Rachel Song, Research Assistant, Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle campus
- Laila Volpe, Research Assistant, Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle campus
- Lindsey Green, Teaching Assistant, Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle campus
- Carly Gray, Teaching Assistant, Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle campus
- Caitlin Stavish, Teaching Assistant, Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle campus
- MJ Schneider, Research Assistant, Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle campus
Read more about the project here: Assessing course syllabi with a rubric: Strategies for inclusive teaching https://teaching.washington.edu/learn/teaching-and-learning-symposium/2024-teaching-learning-showcase/song-et-al/
Song's faculty mentor is Cynthia Levine.