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Three Strategies that Support Student Well-Being and Mental Health

Faculty Focus

Integral to these efforts, the Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) designed and delivered several faculty development opportunities focusing on research-based teaching and learning strategies that support student mental health and well-being. Recognize and limit microaggressions (Smith-Haghighi, 2022).

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How Do You Grade a Creative Assignment?

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Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? She tweeted : “In my course on The Holocaust, I gave my students choice between a final project and a final exam. I feel weird about testing them on genocide.”

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Three Strategies that Support Student Well-Being and Mental Health

Faculty Focus

Integral to these efforts, the Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) designed and delivered several faculty development opportunities focusing on research-based teaching and learning strategies that support student mental health and well-being. Recognize and limit microaggressions (Smith-Haghighi, 2022).

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Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work

Faculty Focus

In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of student understanding of culture. Finally, mind maps provide opportunities for students to co-create cultural understanding together.

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Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work

Faculty Focus

In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of student understanding of culture. Finally, mind maps provide opportunities for students to co-create cultural understanding together.

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Using Collaborative Learning to Elevate Students’ Educational Experiences

Faculty Focus

Collaborative learning benefits students from diverse backgrounds and cultures. These benefits are salient when working together and appreciating different perspectives and cultures. To prevent free-riding and social loafing, professors should include individual assessments such as quizzes, exams or reflections, and group work.

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Using Collaborative Learning to Elevate Students’ Educational Experiences

Faculty Focus

Collaborative learning benefits students from diverse backgrounds and cultures. These benefits are salient when working together and appreciating different perspectives and cultures. To prevent free-riding and social loafing, professors should include individual assessments such as quizzes, exams or reflections, and group work.