Center for Teaching and Learning

ACUE

Harding has recently partnered with ACUE, Association of College and University Educators, and has a current cohort working together for certification in the excellence in teaching course recognized by the American Council on Education. ACUE graciously shared the following resource list for any faculty to utilize.

• Inside Higher Ed is maintaining a roundup of news updates related specifically to coronavirus.
• Educause rounds up campus responses, continuity plans, and alternative course material delivery methods on its COVID-19 coverage page.
• This crowd-sourced master list is currently tracking continuity plans for 250 institutions. Note: This source is not managed by ACUE.
• The Chronicle of Higher Education has a Facebook group focused on higher ed and coronavirus.
• ACUE has curated a Twitter list of accounts to follow, many of whom are adding to the ongoing discussion.
• NISOD has compiled a toolkit of relevant resources, including research papers, webinars and training opportunities.
• ACUE and Active Minds, the nation’s premier nonprofit organization supporting mental health promotion and education for young adults, have partnered to release Creating a Culture of Caring: Practical Approaches for College and University Faculty to Support Student Wellbeing and Mental Health.

Chronicle of Higher Education

This collection includes short articles and advice from a respected source that helps faculty support students during the trauma of Covid-19.

Magna Commons and Monday Morning Mentor

The CTL provides a subscription to the Monday Morning Mentor, and through this time of Covid-19 most of the programs are carrying a bonus program tailored to online needs. These come out each Monday morning, but all of the programs in this series and many more helpful titles for transitioning to online teaching and learning can be found in Magna Commons. This is a digital library of videos to help with all areas of teaching, but you can easily search for sessions particularly on the online transition.

You can find the CTL subscription to the Mentor Commons along with many helpful resources in the Library's Libguide. You can also get to the Commons with your Harding login.

Keeping a Healthy Balance

The above resources are helpful for pedagogy and course development, but more and more educators are recognizing a pedagogy of the inner life as they attend to the mental and emotional needs of themselves and their students. Below are some suggested resources:

Prayer and meditation apps can be helpful guides and reminders throughout the day to stop and pray or take 5 minutes of gratitude. Many of these are available in the app store.

HU Canvas module for chair yoga

This short video features Kelly James, a local yoga instructor who has come to Harding to work with faculty and staff on ways to stretch and center as we work daily, often sitting for long periods of time behind a desk. Her video is in a Canvas module for the CTL.

Contemplative Practice:

C-Mind is the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society.

They offer webinars and archive them for any who want to include more mindfulness practice in the classroom, either face-to-face or virtual.

From their website we envision higher education as an opportunity to cultivate deep personal and social awareness: an exploration of meaning, purpose, and values in service to our common future.

More Mindfulness:

Harding alum, Laurie Swain, a licensed counselor and certified Mindfulness instructor in Searcy, has presented for the CTL before and has been helpful in sharing ways of staying healthy. She is opening a new studio across from the public library, Mindful State Yoga, and she shares the following list.

Mindful State Yoga (MSY) YouTube channel has guided breath and yoga practices offered freely. We are consistently adding content, so stay tuned with us. I will be recording and offering a few breath and meditation practices this week. Here is the link to YouTube Mindful State Yoga. You are welcome to subscribe to this channel and to like MSY on Facebook and Instagram.

Tara Brach meditation for calming and inner peace: www.tarabrach.com/meditation-rain-fear

Here is a Mindful article “Self Compassion practices to deepen your resilience”. Mindful article

All things self-compassion: Center For Mindful Self-Compassion

Ten Percent Happier - Coronavirus Sanity Guide

Mindful has created a 30 day program to support you.  Find Calm and Nourish Resilience course

Dr. Judson Brewer is a psychiatrist, mindfulness and habit-change expert. On his YouTube channel, he is offering short videos that help us understand the science of our emotional experiences and simple tips for creating habits that will help us through. Here is a link: Dr. Jud's YouTube Channel

The Center For Healthy Minds has created a site filled with practices, resources, and articles for kids, parents, healthcare professionals and educators, which is updated daily. Wellbeing Toolkit and Resources

Sounds True has created a Resilience in Challenging Times Care Package, regularly updated. Care Package

ISSOTL
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. While ISSOTL requires membership for some of its resources, their journal is free and has many research-based ideas about the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Harding’s Brackett Library Libguide
The library has a libguide page with resources including journals and books to help teachers with questions about better teaching, mentoring, adjunct teaching, teaching in science classes, and many other general and specialty resources. The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Teaching Professor are both particularly helpful to get ideas for improving teaching.

The Watson Center
The Watson Center was formerly the ERC and is located on the third floor of the Thornton Building. It has an array of physical supplies for teachers, and its book resources are linked to the Brackett catalogue.

The United States Air Force
An excellent site that has many good resources including the following: Learning Theory, Learning Approaches, Curriculum Design, Teaching Methods and a collection of Resources for Teaching.