From public universities to private colleges, Essential Partners has worked to adapt and innovate its approach to dialogue across differences for higher ed teaching.
We call our model the dialogic classroom.
From arts and humanities to STEM, we've trained hundreds of faculty to lead more open, productive discussions about difficult or divisive issues—topics like stem cell research, the role of race in American society, and gender identity.
Join Essential Partners for a two-day training to learn how to implement the dialogic classroom. In first-year lecture classes and Ph.D. seminars alike, we have helped teachers and students make the shift to a dialogic classroom. The benefits have been broad and deep. Our research has found that the dialogic classroom:
- improves learning outcomes;
- fosters curiosity about course content;
- encourages more students to participate;
- strengthens interpersonal connections;
- helps students feel like they belong.
Lead students toward that crucial balance between intellectual humility and personal conviction, a key to intellectual rigor and for the health of a free democratic society. The building blocks to a dialogic classroom can be adapted to your course and teaching style, whether it's a big lecture hall or a small seminar, in the humanities or in STEM fields.
Essential Partners provides a certificate upon completion of the workshop that can be used to support a request for professional development credits.
For more information, please contact us at training@whatisessential.org or 617-923-1216 ext. 10.
