Trauma-Informed Practices

Educators can fully support students by cultivating a classroom that is caring and inclusive. By learning about the impact of trauma, educators can act with compassion and sensitivity, while still holding high expectations for students. [link]
 

Teaching Students Who Have Suffered Complex Trauma

This course is designed for teaching staff and education leaders who want to improve their professional practice. It may also be of interest to health and social care workers. [link]
 

Resilient Teaching Through Times of Crisis and Change

You’ll dive deep into resilient teaching and learn how to create adaptable learning experiences for your students that can work as effectively under fluctuating conditions and disruptions. [link]

The Science of Wellbeing

In this course, you will engage in a series of challenges designed to increase your own happiness and build more productive habits. As preparation for these tasks, Professor Laurie Santos reveals misconceptions about happiness, annoying features of the mind that lead us to think the way we do, and the research that can help us change. You will ultimately be prepared to successfully incorporate a specific wellness activity into your life. [link]

What is a Socially Just University?

The course assumes that higher education is a gateway to society's resources and that institutions must become more socially just for all groups. The course includes sessions with institutional leaders about higher education, diversity, and inclusion in learning and teaching, professors and students as change agents, socially just research, and struggles for equity and justice on campus and in communities. [link]

Community Engagement: Collaborating for Change

Developed by a highly interdisciplinary team of U-M content experts and faculty, this course is designed to be both engaging and challenging, offering an accessible entry into foundational topics as well as a jumping-off point to pursue work and further learning in effective community engagement. It is also a toolkit and a roadmap that offers concrete takeaways and resources for working effectively with communities. [link]

Teaching for Critical Action: Empowering Students in Challenging Times

Some of the major challenges, approaches, and strategies for adopting critical action as a pedagogical paradigm for addressing pressing, complex socio-environmental issues in the classroom will be discussed. The course explores ways in which teaching can empower students as transformative agents in these challenging times. Hear from educators worldwide about diverse examples of critical action curricula, as well as guest experts leading to deeper dives in concepts and perspectives important to growth as a critical educator. [link]

Decolonizing and Creating Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

Understand and learn how to decolonize your research, teaching strategies, and tools. Start by examining your current pedagogies and understand how to deconstruct them through a decolonization lens. Consider the changes you may need to make to de-center popular, mainstream, and colonial narratives and experiences and how to replace them with perspectives and voices from the margins. [link]

Strategies for Effective Intercultural Communication

Learn how diverse cultures and worldviews, including your own, affect communication and how to develop skills to navigate cultural differences more easily and confidently. Gain critical communication skills in dialogue with co-learners and facilitators to challenge cultural barriers and build inclusive practices in both local and international settings. Strengthen your intercultural leadership, cultural intelligence, and adaptation skills in diverse cultural contexts, working with individuals, in collaboration, and within systems. Find out how power imbalances can impact interactions and discover practical tools to reduce misunderstandings and strengthen inclusivity within the workplace and community. [link]

Workplace Wellbeing: Stress and Productivity at Work

Explore the link between work productivity and stress, and learn how improving workplace wellbeing can boost work performance. [link]

Workplace Wellbeing: How to Build Confidence and Manage Stress

The key themes in this course will help you enjoy a better work-life and improved mental health at work. Topics covered in this workplace wellbeing course include how to manage stress in the workplace, reducing your workload through prioritisation, workplace roles and responsibilities, building self-esteem, and more. [link]

First Aid for Teacher Wellbeing (Deep Dive)

Each module unpacks specific strategies teachers can use to act as first responders to their well-being. All strategies are evidence-based with a foundation in Positive Psychology, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Acceptance Commitment Therapy and Emotional Intelligence research. [link]

American Mathematical Associate Engaged Pedagogy Series

Over the span of three sessions, participants will be introduced to the growing field of quantitative justice, with a particular focus on infusing social justice topics into mathematics courses. Participants will learn the basics of R/Quarto through a quantitative justice lens, as well as how to teach quantitative techniques to their students motivated by examples grounded in social justice questions. [link]

Addressing Challenges in Teaching

This summer, the National Institute on Scientific Teaching will host Addressing Challenges in Teaching (ACT), the third annual flexible, small-group learning event in the Solve My Problem (SMP) series. Our goal is to work as a community to address common challenges in undergraduate education. We welcome educators at all stages of their academic careers to join us for this opportunity to explore, reflect upon, learn, and deepen our teaching practices. [link]