Something that may be of interest
Do you want to have a deeper understanding of racial equity? Are you ready for change? Take your first step — join the 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge starting Monday, February 8 through February 28.
The Denison University 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge is an educational tool to advance a deeper understanding of the intersections of race, power, privilege and oppression.
For Those Who Need it Most: Using Active Inclusivity to Increase Office Hour Attendance and Extracurricular Activities. This article provides four useful tips on how to create active inclusivity with your office hours. Increase traffic during your office hours by transforming the meetings into “catching students doing something right.”
Hopefully the winter break provided time for you to unwind and recharge. As we enter a new semester with its challenges, here are eight quick things you can do as you put the finishing touches on your classes to make the semester more manageable.
Thanks to everyone at Denison and Furman for taking part in the Rubik’s Cube Challenge: An Expert Blindspot Learning Adventure! We had over 30 participants. Happy to report that 11 Denison faculty can now successfully solve the cube, several in under 2 minutes! But the real learning was understanding what it is like to be a novice learning, and how this experience will help inform our teaching and address our expert blindspots.
A recent Chronicle article suggested tips for looking “like a professor” on Zoom. Watch Dr. Andrew Ishak, of Santa Clara University, push back on this nonsensical notion in this humorous video.
In our recent faculty meeting, we were encouraged to help out students finish strong. What can we do in the next few weeks to help our students successfully cross the finish line? This bulleted article from Faculty Focus tackles six scenarios you may be experiencing in your classes including:
2020 has been a challenging year. Four helpful tips in this Chronicle article to help avoid burnout.
Many of us are used to “reading our classroom” – getting a pulse of where our learning community is. We quickly track our students’ understanding of an idea or topic by their body language and facial expressions, or questions asked.This semester, with masked students in the hybrid setting and remote students a small image on our screen, we cannot get a clear sense of our students’ comprehension.
We’ve made it past the halfway mark! As we reflect on the first half of the semester, now is a good time to pull out the syllabus to check what is working and what might need tweaking. This article from The Chronicle shows how the mid semester course correction is a useful and productive exercise.
