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LISTSERV 17.02024-03-21T14:01:39ZCenter for Faculty Innovation2024-03-21T14:01:04+00:002024-03-21T14:01:04+00:00Teaching Toolbox: Teach for Minds of All Kindshttps://listserv.jmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TEACHING-TOOLBOX;7373a868.2403Teach for Minds of All Kinds<br><br>by Daisy Breneman<br><br>The theme of this year's upcoming Disability Advocacy Week<https://www.jmu.edu/ods/daw/index.shtml> (DAW) is "Minds for All Kinds," which celebrates the value of neurodiversity<https://www.jmu.edu/cfi/_files/t-t_20-21/03.25.2021-transforming-thinking-about-thinking.pdf>-in other words, the wide range of ways that individuals think. Events, including a CFI Faculty Workshop<https://www.jmu.edu/events/cfi/2024/03/28-employment-justice-dr-temple-grandin.shtml> and a keynote by Temple Grandin<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.templegrandin.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7CTEACHING-TOOLBOX%40LISTSERV.JMU.EDU%7Cbfd27fab8c7747e9ead108dc49af5906%7Ce9333c23cac742f499895cee3d4a79c0%7C0%7C0%7C638466264703764107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=wksjySQ5SBYj8pNRZ%2B3vASjmqXfsNGrEkwoFfElLKsg%3D&reserved=0> on Thursday, March 28, will focus on employment opportunities and justice for "Minds of All Kinds." The DAW organizers highlight the importance of the following: [...] Center for Faculty Innovation2024-03-07T14:52:53+00:002024-03-07T14:52:53+00:00Teaching Toolbox: Rethinking Office Hourshttps://listserv.jmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TEACHING-TOOLBOX;d9d216c6.2403Rethinking Office Hours<br><br>by Kayla Yurco<br><br>The middle of the semester is here, and it's...busy. There are midterms, there's (a lot of) grading, and there might be spring break plans to plan. It all makes for a good time to take stock of your students' progress, your own energy, and what you might want to reconsider, reinvigorate<https://www.jmu.edu/cfi/teaching/toolbox/2021/11-18-re-energizing-our-teaching.shtml>, or revise<https://www.jmu.edu/cfi/teaching/toolbox/2023/03-10-reflecting-on-revising-courses.shtml> for your teaching the rest of the term. And while it might be too late to significantly restructure your course, it's definitely not too late for some low-stakes, high-impact shifts to things you are probably already doing-like holding office hours. [...] Center for Faculty Innovation2024-02-22T15:02:41+00:002024-02-22T15:02:41+00:00Teaching Toolbox: "Small is All": Emergent Strategy for Teaching and Learninghttps://listserv.jmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=TEACHING-TOOLBOX;82317c32.2402"Small is All": Emergent Strategy for Teaching and Learning<br><br>by Daisy L. Breneman and Kristen Kelley<br><br>"Small is good, small is all."<br><br>-adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy (41)<br><br>It's very easy to get overwhelmed by, well, just about everything right now. By the enormity and the sheer volume of the tasks we face. Because we're struggling<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.apa.org%2Fmonitor%2F2024%2F01%2Ftrends-higher-education-challenges&data=05%7C02%7CTEACHING-TOOLBOX%40LISTSERV.JMU.EDU%7Cac6fdd330bbc473bf13708dc33b75113%7Ce9333c23cac742f499895cee3d4a79c0%7C0%7C0%7C638442109638551862%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=SBmZaI4PWDC9FNF1gNwIw79NvvETWHZz7NXGmf2Kh%2FM%3D&reserved=0>, exhausted, and pulled in so many directions. Because of the many sources of conflict, division, and seeming chaos around us. It's a lot. [...]