Teaching, Learning & Innovation Summer Institute

This workshop offers a practical space for exploring the third dynamic of the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (IPP): Reflection. While not unique to Ignatian-inspired teaching, Reflection is intimately tied to the visionary characteristics of Jesuit Education - comprehensive, world-affirming, with an emphasis on freedom. Reflection is not a goal in and of itself; as a practice, it allows learners (including educators) to add meaning and understanding to who they are becoming. How does content or experience change a learner's view of the world, of themselves? It is through Reflection that learners can hear the call for resultant actions and build the physical, mental, spiritual, and moral resources to pursue them. In this workshop, we explore Reflection - and discernment - as understood through Ignatian Pedagogy. We will workshop ways as educators that we can create a habit for the self-work of Reflection as part of the process towards introducing Reflection as a pedagogical tool in our educational spaces. All types of educational spaces will be considered in this workshop - online, in classrooms, credit-bearing, co-curricular, immersive, experiential, etc. All educators are welcome to this workshop - staff, faculty, NTL, tenured, administrators, adjunct, graduate students, and any not listed list here.