Posts Tagged humanizing

Practicing Radical Love: Breaking Down Instructor-Student Hierarchies

Speaker: Fabiola Torres, Glendale Community College Fabiola will share examples of brief, imperfect, captioned videos that break down the instructor-student hierarchy and encourage students to lean in. We will also consider the important topic of managing your public digital identity when using instructional videos. You’ll see videos

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Humanizing Pre-Course Contact with a Liquid Syllabus

Speaker: Michelle Pacansky-Brock The weeks and days leading up to the start of a new term are filled with anxiety and nerves for many students. This term, your students will have even more questions about what to expect and how to get started. An equity-minded strategy to

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Taking Off Our Emotional Armor: Reflections From First-time Online Instructors

Speakers: Dayamudra Dennehy, City College of San Francisco, Gayathri Manikandan, Compton College, and Michelle Pacansky-Brock, CVC-OEI/@ONE Join us for a heart-to-heart conversation about teaching online for the first time. Dayamudra and Gayathri will share their successes and candidly reflect on how leaning into vulnerability resulted in professional

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Humanizing Pre-Course Contact with Google Sites

        Humanized online teaching practices support the non-cognitive or affective dimensions of student learning. Many students who enroll in online courses, particularly those from minoritized backgrounds, do not successfully log in and complete the first week successfully. Weeks 0-1 comprise a high opportunity zone

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Humanizing Pre-Course Contact with Google Sites

Humanized online teaching practices support the non-cognitive or affective dimensions of student learning. Many students who enroll in online courses, particularly those from minoritized backgrounds, do not successfully log in and complete the first week successfully. Weeks 0-1 comprise a high opportunity zone for increasing the percentage

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Caring for Students

Presenters: Michelle Pacansky-Brock, CVC-OEI; Melody Bucker, University of Arizona; University of Michigan, Dearborn; Maha Bali, American University in Cairo “To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most

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Humanizing Online Teaching in a World of “Physical Distancing”

Presenters: Michelle Pacansky-Brock, CVC-OEI; Mike Smedshammer, Modesto Junior College; Kim-Vincent-Layton, Humboldt State University In this OLC Ideate Discussion Salon, participants will be introduced to the principles (and some examples) of Humanizing Online Teaching, a theoretical framework that fosters equity and inclusion by bringing together Culturally Responsive Pedagogy,

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Humanizing Temporary Remote Teaching in Support of Equity

Join Michelle Pacansky-Brock for a mindful consideration about why presence, empathy, and awareness matter even more in times of disruption. And pick up some tips for minimizing stress through human connections in your course. Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/518763120 Or iPhone one-tap (US

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Humanizing Temporary Remote Teaching in Support of Equity

Join Michelle Pacansky-Brock for a mindful consideration about why presence, empathy, and awareness matter even more in times of disruption. And pick up some tips for minimizing stress through human connections in your course. Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/495977303 Or iPhone one-tap (US

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