Lecture: "Teaching for Success: Developing Your Teacher Identity and Agency" April 7

As part of the Grad Rebel Appreciation Week events, the Graduate College is partnering with the Teaching & Learning Commons and Brookings Mountain West to offer a workshop with Brookings Senior Fellow Brad Olsen on Monday April 7, 2025, at 3 p.m. at the Greenspun Auditorium with a reception to follow in the lobby.  

Olsen’s research focuses on teachers, teaching, and teacher development; school reform; global comparative education; and qualitative research methods. Olsen’s most recent book is Teaching for Success: Developing Your Teacher Identity in Today’s Classroom (2016, Routledge). Olsen was series editor for “The Teacher’s Toolkit” (2010, Paradigm Publishers). He is a recipient of the 2007 Excellence in Teaching award from the University of California, Santa Cruz. In this workshop, Olsen will discuss teacher identity and agency, and how current and aspiring teachers in academia can integrate effective practices at the higher education level.

This lecture is open to the entire UNLV community.  We highly encourage academic faculty and graduate students who are interested in teaching to attend. Please RSVP by April 2, 2025, to reserve your seat.

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