Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? Often in our attempt to simplify learning, we reduce concepts to either/or, this side/that side, traditional/nontraditional, black/white and other binary constructs. By simplifying complex relations, ideas and thought into two sides, groups or elements that are diametrically opposite, we are using dichotomous or binary thinking. Dichotomous instruction has often …
September 2021 archive
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Sep 23 2021
SIP 14.5 Ideas for Diversifying Your Course
Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? According to the Oxford Dictionary, “diversify” means to make varied or to become more diverse, to be composed of unlike elements and to enlarge or vary a range of products or a field of operation. The way our educational system has diversified curriculum in the past has concentrated on …
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Sep 16 2021
SIP 14.4 Tips to Combat Faculty Fear and Anxiety through the Return to Campus
Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? Since the beginning of the global pandemic and the shift to remote work in spring 2020, faculty members have had to continuously adapt and update pedagogical methods to meet the needs of students while following public-health protocols. On top of the typical challenges of workload and time management, faculty …
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Sep 09 2021
SIP 14.3 Fear and Anxiety Part 1: Students
Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? Sixty-three percent of college students in the U.S. felt overwhelming anxiety in the past year, according to the Fall 2018 National College Health Assessment. In the same survey, 23% reported being diagnosed or treated for anxiety by a mental-health professional in 2017-2018; imagine what this figure might be for the …
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Sep 02 2021
SIP 14.2 Carryovers from Virtual Teaching into the Current Face-to-Face Environment
Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? We all learned so many things over the past 18 months related to responsiveness to students, our colleagues, ourselves and to our tech savviness. It is time to reflect and reuse some of what we learned. The Early Bird had a story titled “Educators reflect on a year of …
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