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New to the academic job market? Currently a GTA but wanting to get ahead of the game for future application cycles? Need a refresher or some help with academic job search materials? This FATE Mentorship Virtual Event will offer two presentations on this topic followed by a general Q&A with time to workshop specific questions and concerns from participants. This pilot event is free and participants do not have to be a FATE member to attend.

Presenters: 
Kevin Kao, Assistant Professor of Art at Furman University
Katie Hargrave, UC Foundation Associate Professor and Foundations Coordinator at University of Tennessee

​Host: Millian Giang Pham, Assistant Professor of Art and Foundations Coordinator at Auburn University

November 2022
Harford Community College

A release valve lets off pressure and relieves the stress that can be built up in a system. Yesterday, a student asked me what I do about student burnout. Increasingly, my students just want to get assignments done and off their mental lists. How can we get them out of this grind mode which inhibits creative thought and adds to their stress and into a mental space where their creativity can flourish in a mentally-restorative way? You are invited to partake in experiential pedagogical research on methods to create the right environment and cues conducive to spontaneous play-based (active) learning as part of your students’ creative process. This will not be your average roundtable or workshop. You will be invited as a teaching artist to enter a space with making stations, research stations, and a white board for collaborative note taking. By putting ourselves in the place of our students, our aim is to explore what elements inhibit or are conducive to collaboration, play based research, and iterative thinking. After two hours, we will discuss what worked, what didn’t work, and how we can apply methods in our classrooms. The notes taken at this event will be used to produce a short collaborative paper with all attendees as co-authors.