About

Partnering Pedagogy, a workshop series for faculty, students, staff, and administrators, emerges from a collaboration between the Office of Teaching Development and the Inclusive Pedagogy and Curriculum Working Group of EPI.  Too often here at Vassar the various populations of our academic community are isolated from each other when it comes to cultivating effective teaching environments.  How often do we get together in an open, non-evaluative context to develop pedagogies from our interactions and collaborations?  How might we explore the ways pedagogy creates the intellectual and social contexts in which we all cultivate our place at Vassar?

Doing this is easier said than done. The goals of our workshops are to create public settings where groups that normally do not talk to each other about teaching begin to talk about teaching.  So we will be moving beyond the usual Talking about Teaching gatherings of faculty alone to wider groups including students, administrators, and staff.

In short, we aim to promote inclusive pedagogy and curriculum as a core approach to teaching and learning at the college. This commitment represents an expansive array of practices and principles that imagine the classroom and the curriculum in ways that allow all the members of our various communities to feel welcomed, valued, challenged, and supported throughout their time at Vassar.