{"id":2167,"date":"2025-10-16T14:54:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:55:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:55:55","slug":"october-professional-development-lunches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/october-professional-development-lunches\/","title":{"rendered":"October Professional Development Lunches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Fall-2025-PDL-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Fall-2025-PDL-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Fall-2025-PDL-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Fall-2025-PDL-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Fall-2025-PDL-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Fall-2025-PDL.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"_seQBSMLU7RP3n5\"><strong><em>Weekly PDLs are open to all interested Staff &amp; Faculty and a great way to connect with colleagues and meet new ones.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"_5dVA2W9Sc7c3Jt\">Look for us every Thursday in the Tartan Room (Lowry Center), 12-1pm, with lunch tickets available at 11:45am (if you can\u2019t get there in time to pick one up before the event, you can get one afterwards for future use).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>October 23: No PDL<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>October 30: Teaching Beyond the Classroom: A Dialogue on Work-Based Learning<\/strong><br><em>Ashleigh Best, Director of Career Planning<\/em><br><em>Meagen Pollock, Associate Dean for Experiential Learning &amp; Professor of Earth Sciences<br>Jenni Griffin, Dean of APEX<\/em><br>Work-based learning engages students in authentic activities with application beyond the classroom, allowing them to reflect and synthesize real-world experiences with their academic knowledge. This discussion offers a chance to share ways you&#8217;ve incorporated work-based learning into your teaching, discuss obstacles you&#8217;ve encountered, and learn strategies for overcoming challenges. A representative from Riipen (our partner in our CIC work-based learning project), will be there to engage in the conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly PDLs are open to all interested Staff &amp; Faculty and a great way to connect with colleagues and meet new ones. Look for us every Thursday in the Tartan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":753,"featured_media":2170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional-development-lunches"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2171,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions\/2171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}