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…

With apologies to the late Warren Zevon, isolation is hardly splendid – at least when it is forced upon us. I wrote last week about ways to create structure and belonging for students in online classes. Later in this post, you will find some information about student mental health, which was shaky even before the forced isolation. Data…