What do you do (or what CAN you do) when a student stops showing up to class? From a recent brownbag conversation on the topic, the Teaching and Learning Collaborative compiled concrete, specific suggestions from the Shepard Academic Resource Center, the Care Team and faculty colleagues. Big takeaways: follow through on attendance policies in your syllabus (changing […]
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TLC Tip of the Week: Adding Library Resource Links in Moodle
When you add a link on your Moodle course page to an article in a library database or to a streaming video, how can you tell if the link will work for students connecting from off-campus? Most library databases offer the option to obtain a persistent or stable URL for individual articles or videos, and […]
TLC From The TLC: “Why Global Learning Cannot Wait”
This week from the Teaching and Learning Collaborative: Internationalizing higher education has become a top priority world-wide (Gould, 2017). “Today’s college students must become adept both at interacting, cooperating, and engaging with individuals from diverse backgrounds and at grappling successfully with the kinds of unscripted problems and challenges that characterize life and work in the complex world […]
TLC From The TLC Blog
How can white professors at UP achieve a more complex understanding of race and racism? In this week’s Teaching & Learning blog, Lars Larson offers an overview of this year’s College of Arts & Sciences book group selection, White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, by Robin DiAngelo (pictured). For more information […]
TLC Tip of the Week: Try Exit Cards
Want a way to gauge whether you are reaching your students? One simple way to gather informal, low-stakes feedback from students is through exit cards. Rather than relying on end-of-semester evaluations to gauge how a class is going, exit cards can give ongoing feedback to help instructors make decisions about instructional techniques, pacing, or classroom […]
Compassionate Listening: Lessons for Teaching, Learning, & Mental Health
In their roles as instructors, advisors, coaches, and mentors, faculty members are often sought out by students who confide in them about the various academic and non-academic challenges they encounter. Practitioners from various faith traditions have developed the art of compassionate listening as an approach to helping individuals process, heal, and feel truly heard. The Teaching […]
Mental Health TLC Blog Series: Thoughts & Tips From Students
If your students had a chance to tell you what they think about how faculty and academic staff matter to student mental health, what might they say? As a follow-up to a discussion with faculty by leaders of the Active Minds student group at UP, this week’s installment of the mental health series on the Teaching […]
TLC From The TLC: Student Mental Health Concerns?
As another entry in the ongoing Teaching and Learning Collaborative blog series on student mental health, this week’s post offers an update on a recent brownbag discussion with faculty, academic staff, and Eliot Altschul from the Health and Counseling Center. We talked about some basic updates on mental health services at UP, and also discussed hypothetical but […]
TLC From The TLC: Internationalization Support
Over the past few years, internationalization efforts have increased throughout the University, according to Kimberly Ilosvay, education. Campus activities with global opportunities are well-attended and courses have been redesigned to included international, intercultural, and global topics for discussion and action. In the quest to expand “culturally-engaging curricular opportunities and promote knowledge, skills, and dispositions for successful interaction in diverse […]
TLC From The TLC: Student-Athletes and Mental Health
In this week’s installment by the Teaching and Learning Collaborative, Andre Guest asks: Do student-athletes have particular mental health concerns that faculty and academic staff should be aware of? The short answer is yes and no. The slightly longer answer is offered in a brief two part series on the UP Teaching & Learning Community […]