Ep. 062: Working Through Student Absences

Communication is key to coping with the extraordinary challenges to learning brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. That's the number one conclusion we came to in this special edition of our podcast. We sat down with three faculty members to discuss their approaches to teaching this fall, with a special emphasis on supporting students' attendance and helping them to keep learning, even when the novel coronavirus has other plans. We discuss how to set expectations with students, how to encourage them to ask for help, and how to make ourselves available, whether we're teaching synchronously, asynchronously, or somewhere in between.

Special thanks to our panel: Dr. Gina Hunter, Dr. Abby Stone, and Tina McGuire shared their unique perspectives from a variety of teaching situations.

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Show Notes

Here are some additional resources:

Listen to Ep. 063 to get students perspectives on how Fall 2020 is going so far.
Teaching and Learning through Student Absences - guidance on dealing with student attendance and absences, including suggestions for syllabus language.
Redbirds Keep Teaching - comprehensive support for instructors.
Redbirds Keep Learning - a special page with resources for students, featuring topics on everything from online learning strategies to self-care.

A captioned version of this episode is available through this YouTube playlist.
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