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Inclusive Teaching Begins with Authenticity | Faculty Focus We need to take the time to create inclusive learning communities if we’re going to make the most of teaching and learning.

Quick Activities to Prepare and Maintain a Classroom of Care | Faculty Focus Four quick activities that can help professors set the tone of their course, build relationships, and encourage self-care.

Five Things to Do During the Grumpy Time of the Semester | Faculty Focus We share five things that we do to reduce our grumpiness during the grumpy time to make our teaching more engaging and fulfilling.

“They Don’t Read My Feedback!" Strategies to Encourage Reception and Application of Course Feedback | Faculty Focus With a specific framework embedded into a course, feedback can become informative and transformative both during and post-university training.

A timely offering of strategies for accommodations from Faculty Focus during the UA Disability Services Conference week.

Strategies for Accommodating Students with Disabilities in Higher Education | Faculty Focus Implementing these strategies have the power to ease additional challenges for students pursuing a post-secondary degree with a disability.

Recovering Student Engagement at Mid-course Time | Faculty Focus Below, let me share instructional strategies that I use in my courses (virtual, asynchronous, and in-person) to recover student engagement.

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Assignments with Significance - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning It has been estimated that college students across the globe devote in excess of a billion hours per year to “disposable” assignments (Wiley, 2016). Students view the work as simply a hurdle to be crossed, and once submitted and assessed, worthy of nothing more than being discarded. What a wast...

Cultivating Connection in a Course Setting | Faculty Focus Showing up for students with kindness, compassion, and encouragement goes a long way in supporting their well-being.

Cameras On or Off? It Depends! What We’ve Learned from Students about Teaching and Learning on Zoom | Faculty Focus We're here to provide you with research-based insights that can help inform your camera policy and course design decisions.

Teaching a Course as a Narrative Arc | Faculty Focus Integrate the narrative arc you believe in throughout your course—that is the story your students will take with them.

Enhancing Student Engagement with Course Materials through Digital Social Reading | Faculty Focus Digital social reading demonstrates new knowledge, engages diverse viewpoints, and builds vibrant learning communities

Course Content and Course Assignments: Considerations to Help with Student Plagiarism | Faculty Focus This article will focus on course content and course assignment considerations—a key factor in why students may choose to plagiarize.