Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
2021–2022
Conor Dube
I focused on remaking our pedagogy course for G3s to meet more regularly and to allow for the cultivation of a real community of teachers. I incorporated several new sessions, based in part on Bok Center seminars, and designed a new final project where the TFs participating in the course have an opportunity to design their own syllabus. The goal of this project is both to expose TFs to the process of course design and also to provide them material they could use on the job market.
2019–2020
Armaan Siddiqi
This year I worked on changing the NELC Doctoral Colloquium’s pedagogy course, based on my own experiences teaching it in the Fall of 2019 as well as feedback from NELC TFs who have taken the course. Employing core principles of pedagogy, each of these sessions seek to instill a core set of teaching tools whose value and purpose will be clearly recognizable and reinforced. Notable changes include shifting the requirement from the G3 year to the Spring of G2 and introducing more NELC faculty-led sessions to inspire enthusiasm for pedagogy and build rapport among the department’s students and faculty.