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I’m An Adjunct: What Do I Need to Know About Teaching? 

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In preparing that first course, I focused on what I thought were the essentials of teaching: finalizing the syllabus, picking the readings, and writing the assignments. This is a great first day of class activity that gets students engaged with each other and the instructor right away. Co-create classroom norms with your students.

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I’m An Adjunct: What Do I Need to Know About Teaching? 

Faculty Focus

In preparing that first course, I focused on what I thought were the essentials of teaching: finalizing the syllabus, picking the readings, and writing the assignments. This is a great first day of class activity that gets students engaged with each other and the instructor right away. Co-create classroom norms with your students.

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Challenging Implicit Linguistic Biases in Teaching and Learning Across Disciplines Through Student-Faculty Partnerships

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Students as Learners and Teachers (SaLT) is an innovative teaching approach where students and instructors collaborate to improve educational experiences ( Cavazos et al., One theme on building critical consciousness explored in our program is the presence of implicit linguistic biases in course syllabi and assignment designs.

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Why We Need to Share Care, Appreciation, Kindness and Empathy (CAKE) in our Classrooms  

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To implement the first piece of CAKE, care, we suggest an instructor take some time to implement this strategy. Instructors can provide sheets with an outline of a blank hand/palm or ask students to use the drawing function on their device as an option. Trace boundaries around your fingers and palm to create an outline of your hand.