Tag: resilient teaching voices
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Resilient Teaching Faculty Learning Community: Emphasis on community
By Krista Burke, OSU College of Business “Searching for a supportive community of faculty?” There’s a chance I stopped reading there and decided to apply. At some point I read the complete description of the Resilient Teaching Faculty Learning Community call for participation, but I can’t say it was prior to my decision to apply.…
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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, 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 transformed…
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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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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)…
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Many individual students, one individual instructor!
By Scott Geddes, OSU-Cascades One of the notable educational outcomes I have experienced in the post-pandemic era has been the change in the public high school system (https://leadershipblog.act.org/2023/10/act-scores-decline.html) and subsequently I have noted a widening in the preparation level of incoming student bodies, particularly in the large enrollment prerequisite classes. As educators and instructors, we…
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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…