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Teaching From The Heart: Using Techniques Of Kindfulness In Teaching To Build A More Empathic And Compassionate Campus, Margaret Butcher
Teaching From The Heart: Using Techniques Of Kindfulness In Teaching To Build A More Empathic And Compassionate Campus, Margaret Butcher
TFSC Publications and Presentations
In today’s world of self-absorption and social and political division, we all need a space that is welcoming and inviting. Teaching with just intellect and without heart may be ‘safe’ but can lead to passionless learning. Creating a classroom that honors space for everyone in the room with a trusting environment can help students find the “So what?” and “Who cares?” that may lurk within the course content. Teachers who view themselves simply as a delivery mechanism for content is missing the opportunity to turn on kindness and compassion in their students that can help build a better humanity. Dr. …
Make The Kind Choice, Gina R. Foster
Make The Kind Choice, Gina R. Foster
Open Educational Resources
During the early days of the pandemic, Dr. Gina Rae Foster, Teaching & Learning Center Director at John Jay College of Criminal Justice wrote a series of emails to faculty to support and guide instructors in helping their students and in redesigning their courses in the midst of lockdowns and racial violence. This guide is intended to address multiple interests and needs: as an informal and partial teaching guide, as an edited historical artifact, as a developing set of perspectives on social justice, and as a reminder that our individual and collective wellbeing can be reciprocal and can be amplified.
Things You Need To Know About Testing: Best Practices, Tips And Tricks, Kathryn Zawisza, Kirstin Karpinski, Christa Hestekin
Things You Need To Know About Testing: Best Practices, Tips And Tricks, Kathryn Zawisza, Kirstin Karpinski, Christa Hestekin
TFSC Publications and Presentations
This presentation will cover four main areas: leveraging technology for testing, discouraging cheating, getting students tutoring assistance, and using the testing center for accommodated testing.
New Master Of Education Degree In Curriculum And Instruction Emphasizes "Teaching As A Calling", Kiki Schleiff Cherry
New Master Of Education Degree In Curriculum And Instruction Emphasizes "Teaching As A Calling", Kiki Schleiff Cherry
Press Releases
Ouachita's new Master of Education degree in curriculum and instruction program launched this semester as the latest post-baccalaureate offering in the university’s growing graduate studies menu. The 12-month program, designed to help teachers enhance skills and increase earning potential, prepares educators to become curriculum specialists and instructional coordinators as well as grow their skills in the classroom.
“This program is for every teacher with a heart for students and a heart for Christ,” explained Dr. Gail Hughes, director of graduate studies in education. “In addition to designing effective curriculum for diverse students, we’ll look at current issues in culture, discuss …
The Four Seasons Of Collaboration: Managing A Multi-Campus Oer Effort, Carrie Lewis Miller
The Four Seasons Of Collaboration: Managing A Multi-Campus Oer Effort, Carrie Lewis Miller
IT Solutions Publications
This session will showcase a grant-funded multi-campus collaboration effort to provide OER professional development to faculty on four university campuses. An outline of the program, tools used to facilitate the administration of the program, outcomes, and lessons learned will be discussed. Recommendations for managing a multi-campus program will also be provided.
Unlocking Student Engagement Opportunities In Learning, Teaching And Assessment Through Active Blended Practice In The Faculty Of Business, Faculty Of Business, Technological University Dublin
Unlocking Student Engagement Opportunities In Learning, Teaching And Assessment Through Active Blended Practice In The Faculty Of Business, Faculty Of Business, Technological University Dublin
Cross Faculty Publications
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A Journey To Finding Space In The Tension: Experience Of Instructors' Relationship With Religion And Spirituality In Doctoral Psychology Programs, Samantha Mcgee
Antioch University Dissertations & Theses
Religion and spirituality, when viewed through a holistic lens, can reflect important aspects of a person’s identity. It can be a source of well-being and also struggle. The fields of religion, spirituality and psychology have had a history of being polarized, with some efforts to integrate the two fields. Tensions exist at multiple ecological levels around the topic of religion and spirituality, which can make it easier to avoid discussing it in classrooms and therapy rooms. It is important to address and create room for discussion of experiences around religion and spirituality in classrooms that are training psychologists so they …