Facilitating Messy or Disruptive Conversations in the Classroom

This workshop, facilitated by the Centre for Teaching and Learning, is being offered as a part of the Universities in Times of Crisis – Conversations Across Differences series from the Office of the Vice-Provost, EDI.

In this session, participants will be invited to reflect on their experiences navigating and facilitating challenging or disruptive conversations in the classroom. Together, the facilitators and participants will unpack some of the challenges and complexities in our current classrooms, as well as the “external” conditions that contribute to these challenges. Finally, the facilitators will offer a series of concrete proactive and reactive strategies that can support relational, accountable, and critically-engaged classroom conversations.