The Practicing Professionalism Workshop for STEM Educators

Workshop for Faculty and Teaching Staff with Professor Marty Baylor, Professor of Physics at Carleton College

• 12:30–1:30 pm: Tex-Mex Buffet lunch, Wiesse-Merriwether Room at the Willits-Hallowell Center
• 1:30–3:30 pm: Workshop, Faculty Club Room at the Willits-Hallowell Center

This workshop is open to all STEM educators from the 5 Colleges, limited to 12 participants.
(Would a morning session interest you? Let us know!

There are three participation options:

• Join Marty for lunch and the workshop
• Join Marty just for lunch! (no limit, but headcount needed)
• Join Marty just for the workshop

The Practicing Professionalism Framework (PPF) provides a classroom structure that helps students in STEM courses build content knowledge and field-specific skills, while infusing one or more topics that the broader STEM community cares about in an authentic way. These topics can include but are not limited to history of the field, social justice and equity in a disciplinary context, outreach, and public policy.

The framework is designed to develop students who are the type of scientific thinkers we want them to be and the type human beings they aspire to be – regardless of their major. Additionally, PPF helps change students’ perceptions of STEM disciplinary communities so that they have a more expanded and professional-like view of what someone in those fields does and cares about, potentially leading to a greater sense of inclusion and belonging.

This workshop will introduce STEM educators to the three components of the framework and how to use these three components to reframe their courses in a way that broadens students; understanding of what it means to be a scientist and do science, within a specific disciplinary community. Attendees are encouraged to bring a syllabus from one or more courses to work on during the workshop.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Physics & Astronomy, The Teaching & Learning Initiative, The Charlotte Haywood Lecture Fund, and the Office of the Provost.