Tag: resilient teaching
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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…
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Resilient teaching and technology
By Will Later, OSU College of Liberal Arts Depending on how many years a person has been teaching, that person has seen many changes in technology in the classroom. From just chalkboards to having to make transparency copies for the overhead projector or making sure the projector is on, developing online modules in Blackboard or…
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Elevate your teaching in a faculty learning community: Deadline extended to June 12
The growth of any craft depends on shared practice and honest dialogue among the people who do it. We grow by trial and error, to be sure—but our willingness to try, and fail, as individuals is severely limited when we are not supported by a community that encourages such risks. – Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach The Center…
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Incorporating resilient pedagogy within experiential learning
By Karen Elliott, OSU College of Health As we move into Spring term, it is always filled with so many possibilities and excitement for commencement at the end of the term and of course, the excitement of warmer weather as well! As an internship coordinator, it is one of my busiest terms, with supervising internships in…
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Will another app actually help me stay organized? This one will.
By Danielle Skinner, OSU College of Science I am one of those people who finds a new app and thinks, “This. This is going to skyrocket my production and creativity.” I try it for a few weeks, but it never works its way into my routine, or it’s clunky and there are features about it…
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Adaptability as resiliency
By Alison Lay Cranston, OSU-Cascades In the spring of 2020, I was I was not yet a faculty member, but my work was dramatically impacted nonetheless. At the time, I was primarily instructing contract-based outdoor educational and wilderness medicine courses, and I was suddenly out of work. One by one, my contracts were cancelled, and…