Teaching by its nature is a reflective process, and so the Teaching Center invites you to reflect on your teaching during COVID-19. We offer four open-ended questions to guide your reflection. Your responses will be thematically organized and presented (without identifiers) on the Teaching Center’s “The Art of Teaching” blog in late May. The Teaching …
Month: April 2020
Summer 2020 Reading Groups
The Teaching Center will offer summer reading groups again this year. To sign up for a group, email the Teaching Center (teachingcenter@belmont.edu) with the title(s) of the book(s) you are interested in reading. You are welcome to sign up for more than one group. Please reply by Friday, April 17 so that we have adequate time to determine which books have sufficient interest to …
Campus Partners: Coping with COVID-19
I recently reached out to Belmont’s Director of Counseling Services Katherine Cornelius, LCSW, on how we can help students cope during COVID-19. As I read through the resources she provided, I realized that like our students we as faculty need tools to help us manage this change, and in many ways our sense of loss. …
Three Miles an Hour
Three miles an hour – it’s roughly the speed humans walk. Mind you, I haven’t timed it. I probably move a bit faster when walking from my 8 a.m. class in the sport science building to my 9 a.m. class in JAAC. If I’m being honest, I dash more than I walk – dash to …