How do you know where you’re going when you haven’t been there before?
Join us for 2024 CTL Summer Playground Institute in May, where we come together in a playful community to meander on the margins. Through various creative mapping exercises, participants will identify the boundaries of familiarity and be challenged to step outside their comfort zones and experiment with new pedagogies, spaces, worlds, locations, emotions, and more!
What is central to your pedagogy and what is on the periphery? Where do you find yourself entering the unknown and where do you find yourself retracing your steps? Is there a place where you consistently get lost, each time you approach it? Through hands-on exercises, guest speakers, and workshops, we’ll delve into these topics together in a playful, interdisciplinary community. Additional topics will arise out of our meandering and might include: edges and boundaries, expertise, perspective, and exploration.
This year’s Playground Institute will inspire participants to embrace the margins and to find the potential for growth and transformation in the unfamiliar. Through play and creative collaboration, we will develop new perspectives and strategies for fostering learning environments that support experimentation and encourage ourselves and our students to attempt the unfamiliar.
Come ready to teach upside down through playful experimentation!
