Tools for Teaching  Critical Thinking & Analysis Skills

Join other graduate students and postdocs to discuss timely topics in teaching and learning.Our highly interactive workshops and events integrate the latest research and theory on student learning with best teaching practices. Our workshops are led by Searle Center staff, Graduate Teaching Fellows, and Workshop Leaders and aim to help graduate TAs and instructors address key issues within and across their disciplines.Workshops are always free to attend, but registration is requested.

Searle Center - Graduate and Postdoctoral Learning

Join us to learn more about developing your students' critical thinking & analysis skills!

About the workshop: The abilities to think critically and apply knowledge are the hallmarks of a university education. Every discipline, however, valorizes critical thinking and analysis in its own manner; each has its own history of approaches to knowledge production. This complexity can make general discussions of “critical thinking” and “analysis” difficult, as one’s disciplinary location will likely determine one’s approach to intellectual work. This workshop aims to equip participants with the skills to define the processes of critical thinking and analysis from their unique intellectual perspective and develop teaching methods that clarify these processes for students.About the facilitators: Keary Watts is a fifth-year candidate in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Theatre &amp; Drama program and is a Franke Graduate Fellow at the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. His dissertation, “Strategic Re-deployment: the American Blackface Minstrel Tradition from 1965 – 2010” historicizes anti-racist uses of nineteenth-century blackface minstrel conventions by contemporary Black theatre artists. He develops the concept of “strategic re-deployment” to theorize how this artistic choice constitutes a legacy of derogatory representation even as it signifies on this legacy to realize alternative possibilities for understanding resistance politics and advancing social change. He has taught classes on research and scholarly writing, dramatic and performance theory, contemporary American theatre, and race and performance.Jenny Wang is a fourth year PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry. She researches nanoscale materials, particularly the patterning of thin film surfaces to enhance material properties. Jenny has been a general chemistry laboratory and recitation TA at Northwestern. She has also led workshops for the Graduate Student Teaching Conference and the Chemistry Department, and she serves as a Science Club mentor at the Boys and Girls Club of Chicago. Jenny strives to incorporate active learning and inclusivity in all her teaching endeavors.

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