This is a corrected version of the info that was sent via email to all faculty on August 26th, 2021
Welcome Back?
| This fall semester we, and our students, continue to face deep uncertainty. The recent Covid update raises questions about teaching modalities, including the possibility of a full campus pivot to remote. Teaching with care, and flexibility, will help both you and your students. Please make an appointment with a Hub Instructional Designer if we can help in any way. |
Masking in the Classroom
| You might find that a mask will require more changes than just speaking more clearly. You can get some ideas from the Hub’s blog post on Masking in the Classroom or by viewing the recording of Tuesday’s Faculty Panel. If you are realizing that masking means some design changes such as delivering lectures online and engaging students in the classroom, consider meeting with a Hub Instructional Designer. The kinds of flexible approaches that you used for remote delivery last year, with some adaptations, might work to humanize your masked-up classroom. A limited supply of clear panel face masks are available for faculty at each Dean’s Office. For other kinds of specialized masks, please use this request form. |
Teaching with Care, First Days
| Pedagogy of Healing: Bearing Witness to Trauma and Resilience UM-Dearborn graduate, neuroscientist, and nationally renowned expert on trauma-informed pedagogy, Mays Imad suggests 13 actions professors and other educators can take to help promote students’ mental health before and during the fall semester. Navigating the Return to In-Person Teaching UofM CRLT’s blog post with a range of ideas you can choose from based on the specifics of your class, your students, and your teaching style. A Four-Step Plan: The First Day of Class on Zoom For those of you teaching online synchronous courses – ways to build an intentional zoom classroom community. Welcoming Students to the First Day of Online Class In fully online asynchronous course, give students a warm welcoming road map to the first week. |
Teaching with Care, Unsettled Times
| How to Prepare Your Students for a Possible Change of Plans Includes a link to a twitter feed with sample syllabus statements about flexibility and contingency plans. You, or your students, may choose to raise issues of vaccines, masks, and recent campus policies in the classroom. These resources will help you facilitate a productive and thoughtful conversation: Teaching in Times of Crisis | Center for Teaching | Vanderbilt Responding to Difficult Moments | CRLT – University of Michigan Navigating Difficult Moments – Derek Bok Center for Teaching Grading the vaccine rollout This interview with our own experts, Terri Laws and Krim Lacey, from last March has important information about the challenges of equity and vaccine hesitancy. Instructional Designers are ready to help you think through how to implement any of these ideas or how some of these current concerns might fit into the content of your course. |
Announcing Jesse Stommel as The Hub’s Fall 2021 Virtual Resident
| The Hub is excited to announce our very first virtual resident and it is none other than Dr. Jesse Stommel who will serve in this role during the Fall 2021 term. As part of his residency Jesse will lead two events over the fall term. Each event is one part traditional presentation style and then, after an hour break, one part conversational session. Save the following dates for these exciting events: This event will feature a public keynote from Jesse followed by a conversational session for Just for Dearborn faculty/staff 11am Keynote – Open to the Public 1pm Fireside Chat – Just for Dearborn Only Thursday, Oct 28th: Critical Digital Pedagogy This event will feature a public panel discussion around Critical Digital Pedagogy led by Jesse. Panelists will include Sean Michael Morris and others to be announced soon! It will be followed by a conversational session for Dearborn faculty/staff 11am Panel Discussion – Open to the Public 1pm Fireside Chat – Just for Dearborn Only In addition to leading these events, Jesse will be invited to join other events as a participant, allowing him to join in the excellent work already underway on our campus. If you would like to join an email list to be notified about various ways to participate with Jesse please do so using this form.Announcing Jesse Stommel as The Hub’s Fall 2021 Virtual Resident |
Ungrading Faculty Learning Community
| An ungrading approach welcomes students into the conversation about assessment and encourages students to be in control of their own learning. Emily Luxon, Associate Professor of Political Science, is starting an ungrading learning community. This fall’s inaugural kick off of the community is focusing on reading Blum’s Ungrading; the Hub has some (limited) funds to purchase books for those who sign up. |
*Correction: The keynote and fireside chat were moved to avoid the Simchat Torah holiday.
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