Tag: resilient teaching
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Community at the heart of resiliency
By Kryn Freehling-Burton, OSU School of Language, Culture, and Society Reflecting on my own teaching and learning consistently leads me to community. Compassion, nourishment, learning, and creativity run through my own resiliency and the ways I see students respond in the classroom, particularly since the pandemic lockdown. All of these are sharpened in community. “When we decide to…
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Resilient teaching in an Abnormal Psychology course
By Deborah Becht-Buss, OSU-Cascades Resilient teaching often means letting go of control—trusting students to find their own pathways to understanding. In my Abnormal Psychology course, this meant saying yes when a student asked, “Can I use Piglet to explain anxiety?” The result has transformed not only how my students learn, but how I teach. The…
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Re-energize your teaching this fall: Call for participation
In principle, resilient design is meant to be flexible, to anticipate disruptions, and to value social equity and community. —Andrea Kaston Tange, Resilient Design Are you seeking a supportive community of teaching faculty focused on resilience and improvement of teaching? Curious how to choose and use ed tech tools? Looking for an enjoyable way to…
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Resilient teaching and first-year students
By June Morris, OSU College of Education Leaving home and coming to college is fraught with anxiety over the many unknowns. Our first term freshmen grapple with being thrust overnight into a world where they don’t yet understand the norms that define college life. They may come to us as high school scholars, but that…
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Unearthing the unknown-unknowns: Using a backchannel for resilient teaching
By Demian Hommel, OSU College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences We’ve all been there: facilitating a carefully planned class session, only to realize that students seem lost or hesitant to ask questions. Often, it’s the “unknown-unknowns”—the gaps in understanding that we, ourselves, aren’t aware of—that trip us up. To surface these, I’ve adopted an…
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The power of play in resilient teaching
By Erica Woekel, College of Health and OSU Extension Take a moment to think back on your childhood and what your favorite game or activity was to play. Some of my favorites were playing with dolls, cars, dressing up, cards and board games, playing ‘school’, and being outside creating inventive stories for hours. Playing is…
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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…
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Back to basics
By Janell Johnson, OSU College of Agricultural Sciences “…Teaching, when done well, is a craft that requires ongoing reflection and improvement” (Thurston et al., 2021, p. 2). It’s amazing to look back and reflect on not only how much students have changed since I started teaching at Oregon State University, but how my teaching has…
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The power of knowledge mapping
By Islam Hafez, OSU College of Forestry As technology continues to advance, students are now more susceptible to shorter attention spans and information overload. During an entire course, students are exposed to tons of new information. One key challenge with such a plethora of information is that students struggle to organize and connect the various…
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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…