Friday Fragments, May 8
A short collection of resources & articles you might find interesting this week.
5 Takeaways From My Covid-19 Remote Teaching - Chronicle of Higher Ed. (Michelle D. Miller, Professor of psychological sciences at Northern Arizona University)
Trauma-Informed Pedagogy (webinar recording) and the slides from that workshop by Mays Imad, a neurobiologist who studies learning, emotions, stress, and the brain. She recently wrote an article for Inside Higher Education: “Hope Matters: Ten Teaching Strategies to Support Students and Help Them Continue to Learn in this Time of Uncertainty.”
Faculty Burnout - both a compilation of resources/research and an article “Beating Pandemic Burnout” by Rebecca Pope-Ruark, a faculty teaching and learning specialist at Georgia Institute of Technology.
HEDS (consortium of small/medium liberal arts colleges) COVID-19 Institutional Response Student Survey - As of April 30, over 19,500 students at 40 institutions have responded to the student survey; this report focuses on students’ plans to return to their institutions in the fall & their experiences this spring, with in-depth qualitative & quantitative data. (Short version: 73% of 1st-3rd year undergrads responded “definitely yes” to returning in the fall).
Best Practices for Designing a Learning-Centered Syllabus - discussion of Specialized Software, Technology, Technology Skills, and Study Strategies. (Claudia J. Stanny, Director of the Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment at the University of West Florida)
Happy reading!