Category: Community Posts

Blog posts, reflections, arguments, and thoughts from the community of teachers and learners at UP.

Connecting your Students to Tutors and Writing Assistance

With Governor Kate Brown’s order that Oregonians all stay at home, we are all now navigating working from off campus as we prepare to enter week three of this unprecedented change due to the Coronavirus. Many of our students are adapting, but others are struggling with living spaces, internet access, multiple online teaching platforms, and…Continue Reading Connecting your Students to Tutors and Writing Assistance

Teaching and learning resources for these trying times

We’ve all been in a crunch over the past week and a half as the spread and unknown reach of the Coronavirus sent us all on many directions. During this time, our colleagues have been learning new systems like Microsoft Teams and TechSmith Relay, and our students have been trying to adjust to our online…Continue Reading Teaching and learning resources for these trying times

Welcome to The Study

Students often need modeling of effective study strategies When students come to the Learning Commons for content tutoring, they often could use more work on how to study in general and in the content area. How one approaches studying in one discipline varies from other disciplines, and how one approaches studying impacts the grade. We…Continue Reading Welcome to The Study

Mentally Healthy: The most common trauma experiences

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This post is an entry for Part III of the Mentally Healthy resource guide for UP faculty and academic staff working with students who might have mental health concerns. While no one would ever wish a trauma experience on a student, the reality is that trauma experiences are common and often unavoidable. The question becomes how we…Continue Reading Mentally Healthy: The most common trauma experiences