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Three Strategies that Support Student Well-Being and Mental Health

Faculty Focus

Create guidelines/ground rules with the students for class discussions; examples include: we attack ideas, not people; everyone can speak twice and then wait for all to share at least once; one talks at a time; we do not speak for an entire culture or ethnicity, etc. Learning science principles for instructors. CEI (2022).

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How Colleges Are Thinking Differently to Serve Adult Students

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The nature of jobs changing over time has created some changes in the adult learning population. I also think we are seeing a much more culturally and ethnically diverse population of adult learners who we are working together to serve in broad ways to enhance their learning. Those full loads are really tough.

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Assignments with Significance

Faculty Focus

What exists in Arabic in terms of Sunday school curricula, youth work materials, and home Bible studies is largely translation from English, often poorly translated and culturally inappropriate. Recognizing the particular need for team skills in developing scientists, I decided to set a group documentary video as the main assignment.

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Three Strategies that Support Student Well-Being and Mental Health

Faculty Focus

Create guidelines/ground rules with the students for class discussions; examples include: we attack ideas, not people; everyone can speak twice and then wait for all to share at least once; one talks at a time; we do not speak for an entire culture or ethnicity, etc. Learning science principles for instructors. CEI (2022).

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Teaching Excellence Through Mindful Reflection 

Faculty Focus

Simonson conducts research in exercise and environmental physiology as well as in the scholarship of teaching and learning. She has worked in the Center for Teaching and Learning at Boise State University for nearly a decade as a project manager and more recently as a program coordinator. “The process of experiential learning.”

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Teaching Excellence Through Mindful Reflection 

Faculty Focus

Simonson conducts research in exercise and environmental physiology as well as in the scholarship of teaching and learning. She has worked in the Center for Teaching and Learning at Boise State University for nearly a decade as a project manager and more recently as a program coordinator. “The process of experiential learning.”

Teaching 111