Brianna Lemmons (Social Work), Karenna Malavanti (Psychology and
Neuroscience), Thomas Spitzer-Hanks (Baylor Interdisciplinary Core)
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
The shifts in teaching and learning we have experienced due to the
COVID-19 pandemic have been disruptive and difficult. Although some
students have been frustrated and some instructors have been
discouraged, many faculty have found in this crisis unexpected potential
to refine and improve teaching. The collective trauma may impel us to
ask questions about our students that have never occurred to us before.
The loss of contact time with students may re-center our teaching around
learning objectives rather than content and assignments. The
interruption of our normal routines and practices may press us to more
intentionality, transparency, and support for our course objectives. In
short, COVID-19 may make us all better teachers. Join an
interdisciplinary panel of Baylor faculty as they discuss the work in
progress of their own teaching in light of the pandemic and the hopeful
ways even crisis can strengthen the mission of transformational
education.