About the Playbook
Over the past year our world has seen tremendous shifts in the way we interact, work, and learn. COVID-19 has introduced us to phrases like social distancing, increased adoption of web conferencing tools, and forced us to think about how we might do things differently.
During this unprecedented shift, institutions of higher education have been tested to provide academic continuity and care for students’ needs in the classroom and beyond. The pandemic has created challenges for effective teaching and learning as students, instructors, and staff navigate unfamiliar course modalities, new technologies, health concerns, economic stressors, disrupted home routines, and a tumultuous social and political landscape.
With instructors’ work focused on interacting with students, they have found themselves at the center of these challenges — essentially acting as the glue holding the learning experience together. To support students and ensure their success, we must provide guidance to instructors in caring for the whole student. But, how can this be done in authentic and easily implementable ways?
How to Use this Playbook
This playbook has been designed to provide instructors with examples to support putting student care into action. While the impetus for this playbook was the COVID-19 pandemic, the information and resources provided represent high standards of student support regardless of the environment.
In this playbook you will find detailed recommendations broken out into six sections. Each of these Six Recommendations for Caring for Students provides practical recommendations, concrete strategies, and resources to support instructors in operationalizing equity-focused, inclusive teaching strategies that put student care into practice by acknowledging student challenges while identifying student assets.
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