Fall 2024 Book Club: Kindness and Assessment

Join Educational Developers from the Office of Teaching and Learning for a Book Club discussing A Pedagogy of Kindness (Denial, 2024). A Pedagogy of Kindness articulates a fresh vision for teaching, one that focuses on ensuring justice, believing people, and believing in people. Offering evidence-based insights and drawing from her own rich experiences as a professor, Denial offers practical tips for reshaping syllabi, assessing student performance, and creating trust and belonging in the classroom. Her suggestions for concrete, scalable actions outline nothing less than a transformational discipline—one in which, together, we create bright new spaces, rooted in compassion, in which all engaged in teaching and learning might thrive. 

During each meeting, book club members will take part in a facilitated discussion of one chapter of the book and discuss their thoughts, questions or share experiences from their own classes. The book club is open to all University of Guelph faculty, staff and instructors (including teaching assistants and sessionals).   

Register here for the Book Club