April 14: Distilling Your Message for Teaching and Outreach: Brief and Compelling Interactions with the People You Need to Talk to
April 14: Join us on April 14th from 12:30 p.m. - 2:20 p.m. view Zoom for Distilling Your Message for Teaching and Outreach: Brief and Compelling Interactions with the People You Need to Talk to.
Effective teaching begins with effective communication. Public outreach requires shaping one’s message for new audiences. Collaboration occurs only when collaborators can find a common language. In this interactive and experiential learning-based workshop facilitated by faculty from Virginia Tech’s Center for Communicating Science, participants will build their communication skills through engaging in exercises that help them move from “information overload” to engaging, clear, and simple communication. We will introduce the 5 W’s of clear communication and learn about the curse of knowledge. Participants will begin to translate their research findings or other complex information into messages that inspire curiosity and engagement. For this interactive Zoom workshop, please plan to have your cameras on and to be in a location where you feel comfortable speaking and moving.
- Register here
- Instructors: Jon Catherwood-Ginn & Carrie Kroehler
- Presented By: Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL)
The workshop will earn graduate students credit toward a certification program:
CIRTL AT VIRGINIA TECH ASSOCIATE TEACHING PROGRAM
The CIRTL at Virginia Tech Associate Teaching Program is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral associates to connect and associate with effective teaching practices. Participants will engage in programming focused on foundational knowledge about teaching and complete a teaching philosophy activity to start building their teaching portfolios. Upon program completion, participants will receive a digital badge recognizing their achievement of program requirements. The program is open to graduate students and postdoctoral associates regardless of teaching experience or responsibilities. Multiple options for program completion are available. To be eligible for the program, you must be a current graduate student or postdoctoral associate at Virginia Tech. Program requirements must be completed during your time as a graduate student or postdoctoral associate at the university. For more information and the online application form, visit https://cirtl.vt.edu/teaching-program.html
*The workshop will be included in Option 1 for program completion*