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Teaching Tip: Professor Describes Teaching In-Person This Summer During Pandemic

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For those interested in what in-person teaching might look like this fall, here is an account from a professor who has been teaching in that setting this summer.

Experiencing COVID-Style Classroom Teaching

By Christine I. McClure July 22, 2020 from Inside Higher Ed

I’m not going to lie: COVID-19 scares me. But I’m a teacher. It’s not just what I do — it’s who I am. Plus, I have four kids to support, so I feel lucky to have a job, and I thoroughly enjoy it.

I love my university and my students, but it’s hard to balance that with my concern for my own children and my fears. I’m sure you are experiencing a myriad of emotions as well. I am teaching a summer course face-to-face and want to share my experience and observations with you. I don’t mean to frighten you but rather to prepare you if you are going to teach face-to-face in the coming months, as well.

When I first walked into my classroom after four months at home, it was surreal, but not just because it had been so long. The entire atmosphere felt different. It was as though the building — the very air — knew something was wrong. Read More

Have a teaching tip you’d like to share with your Middlebury colleagues? Email CTLR Director Jim Ralph at ralph@middlebury.edu. For additional faculty resources see go.middlebury.edu/ctlr including a list of past Teaching Tips.

Teaching Tip: Teaching In A Socially Distanced Classroom

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Jim Ralph, director of Middlebury’s CTLR, recommends this column by Derek Bruff, director of Vanderbilt’s Center for Teaching.

Active Learning in Hybrid and Physically Distanced Classrooms

Posted by Derek Bruff on Thursday, June 11, 2020 in Resource.

by Derek Bruff, Director

If you’ve read Norman Clark’s hypothetical day in the life of a physically distanced classroom, then you’ve probably started to worry about how faculty and other instructors might facilitate discussion, group work, and other forms of active learning this fall. If I’m standing at the front of the classroom with half or a third of my students in the room with me, but sitting six feet apart from each other and wearing masks, while the rest of my students are joining class by videoconference, what strategies might I employ to engage all of my students in meaningful learning? Read More

Have a teaching tip you’d like to share with your Middlebury colleagues? Email CTLR Director Jim Ralph at ralph@middlebury.edu. For additional faculty resources see go.middlebury.edu/ctlr including a list of past Teaching Tips.

2020 Learning Institute To Focus On Teaching Through A Pandemic And Anti-Racism Education

This spring’s Learning Institute in the CTLR will feature sessions on reflecting about the experience teaching this spring, building community in the classroom, choosing to teach in person or remote in the fall, and intentional anti-racist education.

The main goal of the institute is to bring faculty and staff together to reflect on the challenges we all are facing as we do our work in these difficult times and to share helpful ideas, approaches, and resources as we seek to realize our goals.

The institute is a complement to the programs that the Office of Digital Learning and Inquiry (DLINQ) is offering to help faculty prepare for teaching in the fall of 2020.

All sessions will be held on Tuesday, June 30 by Zoom. See additional details and register.

Update: Missed the event? See program description and links to available resources (Middlebury community access)