Nothing could have prepared longtime English professor Jolie Goorjian for the first day of the fall semester.
“I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I don’t know what I’m doing — I shouldn’t be doing this,’” the 20-year teacher recalled telling herself in her dining room on Zoom. “This is a whole different game.”
The class turned out fine. But she had come prepared.
In recent years, Goorjian has attended the vast majority of teaching classes, lunch-and-learns, online courses and programs hosted by SF State’s teacher development center, the Center for Equity and Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CEETL), which compensates teachers upon completion. Now, with CEETL’s support, she and Public Health professor Juliana Van Olphen are ready to launch their own online course.
On Jan. 4, 2021, CEETL will release the 25-hour course — Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Writing, Pedagogies for Inclusive Excellence institute (JEDI Writing PIE) — to assist faculty of writing-intensive classes in strikin...
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