Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? Spring is beginning with students and faculty members alike feeling frazzled and distracted. We are trying to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, but after two years of the pandemic, the Marshall fire, the December mass shooting in Denver and upheavals in housing, employment and health for many folks, we are …
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Mar 19 2020
SIP 11.9 Emergency Transitioning to Remote Teaching and Learning
Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? This week, the SIPsquad would like to focus on supporting faculty members as they move into perhaps the most challenging moment in our institution’s history: fully implementing remote teaching and learning, mid-semester. This unprecedented precautionary measure, intended to combat the spread and impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on …
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Oct 10 2019
SIP 10.9 Flexibility with Deadlines
Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? Some students are driven by deadline pressure, but many find the stress of a looming deadline overwhelming. Additionally, our students are often juggling competing demands and deadlines from courses, jobs and their personal lives, and our assignment due dates may overlap with a big work-related deadline or an important …
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Oct 10 2019
SIP 10.8 Compassion on Campus
Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? Last week, the SIPsquad dished on the stress and anxiety surrounding working in “crisis mode.” As a follow-up this week, we would like to consider how to embed compassion into our practice as faculty and staff. Being aware of the distress students and faculty are experiencing and wanting to …
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