Bloom's Sixth

The pandemic has taken a heavy mental and emotional toll on faculty members and graduate teaching assistants.   That has been clear in three lunch sessions at CTE over the past few weeks. We called the sessions non-workshops because the only agenda was to share, listen, and offer support. I offered some takeaways from the first session in March. In the most recent sessions, we heard many similar stories: Teaching has grown more complicated, the size of our classes has grown…

We called it a non-workshop. Infinite Flexibility (Futuristic) No. 1, via Catbird.ai The goal of the session earlier this month was to offer lunch to faculty members and let them talk about the challenges they continue to face three years into the pandemic. We also invited Sarah Kirk, director of the KU Psychological Clinic, and Heather Frost, assistant director of Counseling and Psychological Services, to offer perspectives on students. In an hour of conversation, our non-workshop ended up being a sort of academic stone soup…