On Wednesday, October 18^th, UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for Philosophy, Prof. Mitch Green met with certified PHIL Instructors for their annual professional development workshop. Prof. Green spoke with instructors about grading student essays. Each instructor provided three anonymized graded samples of student essays for the conversation.

Later, Prof. Green led a discussion on “post-truth” epistemology after instructors watched, a Ted Talk by UConn Professor Michael Lynch(below): “How to See Past Your Own Perspective and Find Truth.”.

UConn PHIL courses offered through ECE.

On Friday, October 14th , UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for Philosophy, Mitch Green, met with ECE certified PHIL Instructors for their annual professional development conference.

Professor Green shared opportunities for ECE/Philosophy Instructors and students including details about the Ethics Bowl, online courses, APA membership, Squire Foundation, and journals. Later, the group shared their experiences leading philosophical discussions in their classrooms and participated in an exercise on paper grading. After lunch Prof. Green lead a discussion on Applied Philosophy of Language: slurs, dog whistles, gaslighting, and fig leaves and spoke on new directions in Epistemology: Knowledge, understanding and wisdom, with special reference to the epistemic value of fiction.

UConn Philosophy Courses offered through Early College Experience.

On Friday, October 1^st  UConn Early College Experience and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for Philosophy, Prof. Mitch Green met with certified Instructors for their professional development workshop. Michael McKenna (U. of Arizona) gave a philosophical presentation on free will.

The day also included a collective discussion regarding Issues, Problems, and Challenges of the past (2020–21) and new Academic Years, FERPA and Dual Enrollment, and Grading Standardization.

UConn Philosophy courses offered through ECE.

On Friday, October 30th UConn Early College Experience and UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for Philosophy. Prof. Mitch Green met with ECE Philosophy Instructors for their annual professional development conference.

Prof. Lauren Bialystok, from the University of Toronto discussed her research “ Presentation on Philosophy in Ontario High Schools” and later “Secondary Teacher Preparation for Philosophy Teaching”.

Later in the afternoon, Prof. Green and Instructors discussed the book “Existentialism, A Very Short Introduction” by Thomas Flynn. Which was provided to instructors prior to the workshop.

UConn Philosophy courses offered through UConn ECE.