Guest Speaker: Ryne Leuzinger
April 28th
LIB 308

The Library invites you to two hosted talks presented by guest speaker Ryne Leuzinger, Research & Instruction Librarian at Cal State Monterey Bay. At CSUMB Ryne has also served as a lecturer in the Global Studies, First Year Seminar and Sociology departments where he has taught courses focused on social movements. Additional work outside the library has included leading professional development workshops since 2016 on equitable assignment design practices. 

Join us before and after the Teaching Excellence Symposium for these great events!

Transparent Assignment Design
9:00am-10:30am

In this interactive workshop, the facilitator will introduce faculty to the cross disciplinary transparent assignment design framework (tilthighered.com/tiltexamplesandresources) through an overview of how this evidence based practices has benefited both students and instructors (e.g. assignments that are easier to grade). Participants will work to design or refine an assignment of theirs via the transparent assignment design framework.

Metacognitive Reading Skills and Information Literacy Instruction
2:30pm-4:00pm

This workshop will involve an overview of Ryne’s scholarship and teaching practices related to Reading Apprenticeship, an approach designed to improve students’ ability to comprehend and think critically about advanced or unfamiliar texts. Fundamental to this framework is that when instructors become more aware of the complexity inherent in how they themselves make sense of text, they gain new appreciation for the difficulties students face. Thus, in doing so they are better able to make their invisible comprehension strategies visible (or transparent) to students, and create a culture of shared problem solving around reading.