Webinar: Creating a Positive Climate for Learning: Tips and Tools for Dealing with Incivility and Conflict in the Classroom

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Date/Time:Tuesday, 19 May 2015 from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Location:Register for the webinar
Cost:Free online webinar
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Phone:515-294-5357
Channel:Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
Categories:Training, development
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Research shows that differences (e.g., race, gender, etc.) in the classroom are often the variables around which conflict and disruptive behaviors emerge. These behaviors in turn hinder faculty effectiveness and student engagement and learning. Rather than avoid or overlook disruptive behaviors, faculty can address incivility and conflict and powerfully model for their students how to work with uncomfortable circumstances.

**Open to all disciplines**

In this webinar you'll learn strategies to:

== Proactively structure your class context to minimize incivility and conflict
== Address incivility and conflict as it arises in the moment.
== Foster a faculty culture that reduces incivility and conflict.

Presenters:
Dr. Mark Chesler, Arthur Thurnau Professor Emeritus, Sociology, University of Michigan
Mark Chesler is a founding faculty member of Michigan's Program on Intergroup Relations and its focus on intergroup dialogues. Working with the university's ADVANCE program, he has focused on issues of gender and racial inequality and change in departmental policies, programs, and pedagogical approaches. He holds a National Center for Institutional Diversity Award for Distinguished Scholarship and Engagement, among other honors. Chesler earned a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan

Dr. Alford A. Young, Jr., Professor and Chair, Dept. of Sociology,
University of Michigan

Alford Young's research interests span culture, contemporary sociological theory, race relations and race theory, and urban poverty. A University of Michigan faculty member since 1996, he was named a Thurnau Professor in 2005 in recognition of his outstanding teaching and mentoring. Young, who has received numerous awards for both scholarly work and community service, earned his doctorate in sociology at the University of Chicago.

Dr. Joanna Millunchick, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
Joanna Millunchick is Faculty Director of M-STEM Academies in Engineering, a program that supports at-risk students studying science and engineering. In addition to her materials science research, she has conducted pedagogical research on the efficacy of internet-based resources in student learning and the impact of participation in science and technology-related student organization on persistence. Millunchick holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University.

Engineering Inclusive Teaching
This webinar is a product of the Engineering Inclusive Teaching (EIT) project, a 3-year program led by WEPAN and funded by the National Science Foundation. Click here to Learn more about the project and sign up to be included on the EIT mailing list

Support for this work was provided by the National Science Foundation's Research on Gender in Science and Engineering under award HRD-1203164. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.