Reconsidering and Revaluing Academic Writing in the Age of AI
By Kristina Aikens, PhD, Program Director, Writing Support, StAAR Center What are the pedagogical benefits of writing as an activity
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Five things you can start doing right now to make your content more accessible
By Pamela Thomas, Digital Accessibility Specialist, Tufts Technology Services According to the most recent data from the National Center for
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Setting the Stage for a Successful Semester
by Kayla Elliott, A23, Child Study & Human Development/Education, Student Ambassador Pedagogical Partnership Program (P3) The relationship between faculty and
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The Troubles with Grading & Grade Inflation
Why are we struggling with grading this year? We want grades to be an accurate and useful depiction of students’
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Human to Human: Responding to distressed students with care, compassion, flexibility and expectations
“A common reaction when faced with student struggle is to want to refer the student to a mental health provider.
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The Overwhelmed Brain: Attending To Your Own Well-Being
Last month, Dr. Mays Imad, nationally renowned neuroscientist, author, and Founding Coordinator of the Teaching and Learning Center at Pima
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Interrogating our assumptions about assessments
Assessments are how instructors measure learning. In any credited course with a grade, embedded in our process of assessment is
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Balancing Flexibility and Rigor to Advance Equity in Course Design
This is part 4 of a series exploring how many of our assumptions about learning were challenged, and in many
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There are no quick fixes in JEDI work
Over the past year, I was inspired by so many faculty members working tirelessly in service of their students and
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We Teach Humans, Not Content: Stepping off the Hamster Wheel
By Dana Grossman Leeman, Senior Associate Director, CELT & Annie Soisson, Director of CELT In the spring of 2021, during
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