Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning

Tag: AIEM-Teach Level 2

Workshop: Feel Better, Teach Better:  Strategies for Supporting Faculty Mental Health

Register here | Facilitator: Rachel Yoho

Teaching is difficult and often an isolating experience.  There are many mental health issues in academia, particularly related to the situation and the work.  Yet, only student mental health is well studied and discussed.  In this workshop, we explore faculty mental health, strategies for improving the environment, and address barriers to addressing concerns.  Please note that this is not a self-help or “yoga your way out of stress” workshop and does have discussions of mental health issues and self-harm.  While university resources are shared, this is an academic and professional development workshop, not medical or mental health advice.  Join us to create community and talk about one of the most prevalent, but under-discussed, issues in academia!

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

Workshop: Surviving to Thriving: Incorporating Trauma-Informed Instructional Practices

Register here | Facilitator: Rachel Yoho

This workshop has been postponed.

Whether individual or collective, trauma can have a significant impact on lives and how students (and instructors) show up and are able to engage in the classroom.  In this workshop, we will explore the concept of trauma and how it applies to the classroom, recognize a few common trauma responses, investigate several educational best practices, expand our thinking with resilient pedagogy, and begin to apply these concepts to our own teaching.  Together we will move beyond minimum legal requirements or accommodations to design and implement evidence-based instructional strategies in university education. 

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

Workshop: Helping Students Learn in Difficult Classroom Conversations and Situations

Register here | Facilitator: Rachel Yoho

This event has been postponed; please check back for a future offering.

Are you ready to take your next steps in engaging successfully in difficult classroom conversations and situations?  In this leveled-up workshop, we will explore the elements of free speech in an educational context, investigate types of disruptions and situationally appropriate teaching responses, and analyze scenarios with colleagues. This workshop is applicable to instructors across all disciplines for facilitating important conversations, whether or not their designed course topics include socially pressing issues (like race, gender, religion, politics).  Please note, this is the third in a four-part workshop series on important conversations. Participants are encouraged – but not required – to engage with parts 1 and 2 before joining this session. 

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

Workshop: ChatGPT, AI Text Generator Tools, and…Inclusive Teaching?

Register here | Facilitator: Rachel Yoho

Access to artificial intelligence (AI) text generators has upended education – and many other sectors – as much or more than past technology advancements and innovations. Join us in this workshop as we discuss how we continue teaching with impact and to support all students in this new reality. We explore instructional approaches, considerations, and methods to help us teach with less stress and more strategy. 

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

Workshop: Supporting First Generation College Students

Register here | Facilitator: Rachel Yoho

Did you know that 20-30% of Mason students are considered first generation college students?  These students come from a variety of backgrounds, identities, and experiences.  Supporting first generation college students in the classroom is a way to create more inclusive learning spaces and broaden participation – and retention – in higher education.  Integrating these strategies is also an impactful way to support all students, even if they are not the specific audience of being the first generation to college.  In this workshop, we will define what it means to be “first gen,” discuss some common obstacles to success in higher education, explore approaches that can be used in the classroom and overall course design, and identify one or more applicable strategies that we might apply in our own teaching.

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

Workshop: ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence Text Generator Tools, and… Inclusive Teaching?

Register here. | Facilitator: Rachel Yoho

Access to artificial intelligence (AI) text generators has upended education – and many other sectors – as much or more than past technology advancements and innovations. Join us in this workshop as we discuss how we continue teaching with impact and to support all students in this new reality. We explore instructional approaches, considerations, and methods to help us teach with less stress and more strategy.

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

Workshop: Surviving to Thriving: Incorporating Trauma-Informed Instructional Practices

Register here.| Facilitator: Rachel Yoho

Whether individual or collective, trauma can have a significant impact on lives and how students (and instructors) show up and are able to engage in the classroom.  In this workshop, we will explore the concept of trauma and how it applies to the classroom, recognize a few common trauma responses, investigate several educational best practices, expand our thinking with resilient pedagogy, and begin to apply these concepts to our own teaching.  Together we will move beyond minimum legal requirements or accommodations to design and implement evidence-based instructional strategies in university education.

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

AI Series: ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence Text Generator Tools, and… Inclusive Teaching?

Register here | Facilitator: Rachel Yoho

Access to artificial intelligence (AI) text generators has upended education – and many other sectors – as much or more than past technology advancements and innovations. Join us in this workshop as we discuss how we continue teaching with impact and to support all students in this new reality. We explore instructional approaches, considerations, and methods to help us teach with less stress and more strategy.

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

Workshop: Feel Better, Teach Better: Strategies for Supporting Faculty Mental Health

Register here | Facilitator: Rachel Yoho

Teaching is difficult and often an isolating experience.  There are many mental health issues in academia, particularly related to the situation and the work.  Yet, only student mental health is well studied and discussed.  In this workshop, we explore faculty mental health, strategies for improving the environment, and address barriers to addressing concerns.  Please note that this is not a self-help or “yoga your way out of stress” workshop and does have discussions of mental health issues and self-harm.  While university resources are shared, this is an academic and professional development workshop, not medical or mental health advice.  Join us to create community and talk about one of the most prevalent, but under-discussed, issues in academia!

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.