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Tag: resilience

  • Applying the self-determination theory to foster resilience

    By Jess Coughlin, OSU-Cascades Resilient Teaching Voices Series I am confident that most of us working in higher education would agree that the past year has required a more purposeful effort to be resilient. We are constantly adapting during a disruptive time period in higher education. The original purpose of this blog post was meant…

  • Resilience is more than a word

    By Luhui Whitebear, OSU College of Liberal Arts Resilient Teaching Voices Series As an Indigenous woman, I have heard the word resilient used many times to describe our communities and nations. I am a descendant of my ancestors that survived genocide, the daughter of activists that fought for the rights we have, and a single…

  • Teaching on the edge

    By Rachael Cate, OSU College of Engineering Resilient Teaching Voices Series Becoming more resilient as a teacher didn’t just sound appealing—it felt essential. I’m Type A, with two young children (ages 6 and 3), and I struggle to recognize when “good enough” is truly enough. The constant flood of information, tools, opinions, and choices leaves…

  • Building resiliency in a new arena

    By Michelle Murphy, OSU College of Education Resilient Teaching Voices Series As a new instructor at the College of Education in the Department of Practice and Research, I have learned a new skill set to maintain resilience during great change. In August, I made a significant decision to transition from the K-12 world to higher…

  • How do you define resiliency?

    By Matt Kennedy, OSU College of Agricultural Sciences Resilient Teaching Voices Series What is resiliency to you? As defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary: It is the ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change. I’ve been teaching at Oregon State University since the fall of 2008 and as I look at the…

  • Resiliency in a profession filled with fur, feathers and frustrations

    By Lilian Wong, Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine A 2019 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) study showed that veterinarians are between two to four times more likely to die by suicide than the general population. Given the mental health epidemic in my profession, resiliency is something my students, colleagues, and I think about on a…

  • Generative AI: Gearing up for Fall ’24

    Wondering how to develop an AI policy for future courses? Trying to sort out potential benefits and drawbacks of using AI in your teaching? How about AI detectors? Just want to find out more about AI tools and maybe start using them in your own work? Good news! OSU has numerous resources to support instructional…

  • The role of gratitude in resilient teaching

    By Ashley D’Antonio, OSU College of Forestry Resilience is one of the first concepts I learned as a recreation ecologist. In recreation ecology, “resilience” is the ability of part of an ecosystem (i.e., vegetation, wildlife) to recover from the disturbance caused by outdoor recreation. I think about resilient teaching similarly, as the ability of a…

  • CUREs to increase student resilience

    By Nate Kirk, OSU College of Science The fear of failure can be demotivating and counterproductive to taking the first couple steps forward. There is a large volume of literature describing this fear to emotional states (e.g. nervousness and anxiety), personality (e.g. having a fixed mindset that one is not capable of achieving the goal)…