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Three Strategies that Support Student Well-Being and Mental Health

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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. Vanderbilt Center for Teaching and Learning (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.

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The Power of AI and Future of Education is Now: How Teachers and the Taught Can Create the Teaching

Faculty Focus

One thing that most educators can agree on is that methods of teaching and learning ought to be revisited—AI must be embraced and the integration of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and culturally response pedagogies no longer remain a choice. This will reduce the chances of misunderstandings.

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The Power of AI and Future of Education is Now: How Teachers and the Taught Can Create the Teaching

Faculty Focus

One thing that most educators can agree on is that methods of teaching and learning ought to be revisited—AI must be embraced and the integration of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and culturally response pedagogies no longer remain a choice. This will reduce the chances of misunderstandings.

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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. Vanderbilt Center for Teaching and Learning (2022).

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Assignments with Significance

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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. In the tasks given in both courses, students learned significant life skills such as collaboration and hearer-oriented communication.

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Teaching Excellence Through Mindful Reflection 

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Simonson conducts research in exercise and environmental physiology as well as in the scholarship of teaching and learning. “The process of experiential learning.” ” In Culture and Process of Adult Learning , edited by M Thorpe, R Edwards and A Hanson, 138-156. Chicago, IL: The Danielson Group.

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