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How Professors Can Bring Culturally-Responsive Teaching to Online Courses

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Based on that feedback, the professor, Julia Parra, says she changed the assignment to make it broader, and more inclusive. Instead of just superheroes, she invites students to think about their own cultural icons and cultural representations, and use that to design a character. She takes the approach of co-designing.

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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

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Trusting students does not mean ignoring accountability; it means designing courses, policies, and practices that build their confidence and skills while treating them as equal partners in their education. Collaborative syllabus design: During the first class, engage students in setting community and classroom norms and goals.

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Teaching With Technology in Higher Ed? Start With Relationship-Building.

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In addition to using technology in my own biology courses, I also work with faculty across the country on how to teach with technology through an inclusive lens. I have also seen instructors blindly adopt tools without adjusting their pedagogy or thought behind what the human interactions would look like afterwards.

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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

Faculty Focus

Trusting students does not mean ignoring accountability; it means designing courses, policies, and practices that build their confidence and skills while treating them as equal partners in their education. Collaborative syllabus design: During the first class, engage students in setting community and classroom norms and goals.

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Searching for the Optimal Class Design to Maximize Learning

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Would you emphasize a supportive learning environment, cognitive and affective learning, pedagogical design, essential content, creating assessments, providing feedback, integrating technology, or something different? This could take the form of a no-point or low-stakes quiz, a case study, group work, or even a reflective activity.

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Social Justice Movements to Health Policy: Lessons from a Pilot Cross-Course Collaborative Project

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HSC also planned for logistical matters needed to enact the policy and reviewed and provided feedback to SSC’s project components. The last face-to-face collaborative session was designed to share policy proposals, answer thought provoking and logistic-related questions, and ultimately vote for the most impactful policy.

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Searching for the Optimal Class Design to Maximize Learning

Faculty Focus

Would you emphasize a supportive learning environment, cognitive and affective learning, pedagogical design, essential content, creating assessments, providing feedback, integrating technology, or something different? This could take the form of a no-point or low-stakes quiz, a case study, group work, or even a reflective activity.