Language Teaching Colloquium with Silja Weber

This is the inaugural meeting of the Language Teaching Colloquium, a new event for the Columbia language community. Each week, the Colloquium will spotlight a Columbia language instructor, who will present on a topic relevant to our current teaching in the Zoom format. We will then transition to an open conversation about the challenges and successes of teaching in our current time.

This week, we are delighted to be joined by Silja Weber of the Department of Germanic Languages, who will speak about reflective assignments for building community and equity.

Here is the program for the event:

• Simon and Chris introduce the idea of the Colloquium
• Silja Weber (German) speaks about reflective assignments for building community and equity
• Q&A for Silja’s presentation
• Open conversation about the challenges and successes of the Fall 2020 Zoom semester so far

At 4pm the event will transition to the LRC Social Hour, for those who wish to stick around and chat.

The event will take place will take place on Friday, September 25 at 3pm at this Zoom ID: 203 508 3989.