ABSTRACT

Responding to the sudden and far-reaching implications of the COVID-19 pandemic in college classrooms and on campus, Emerging Stronger assembles an original compilation of chapters that revisit, reframe, and refine the practice of teaching in a fundamentally altered landscape.

Cultivated from a wide array of different fields, from sociology and political science to literature and secondary education, expert contributors to this volume extend their scholarship on teaching and learning and offer thoughtful pieces about curricular innovation, teaching tools and techniques, and evidence-based approaches that will interest dedicated faculty in any discipline. The chapters fall into three categories—Modalities of Teaching and Learning, Pedagogical Strategies, and Student Engagement—each of which carry an all-important focus on what readers should know about best practices now and for the foreseeable future.

Whether experienced faculty, scholars just starting out in their teaching careers, or aspiring graduate students, readers of this volume will come away with great techniques and strategies, but also community, hope, and opportunity to strengthen their teaching and provide better learning environments in their classrooms.

part Section 2|114 pages

Pedagogical Strategies

chapter 3|17 pages

Understanding, Experiencing, Connecting

The Benefits of Empathy in the Classroom

chapter 4|17 pages

Teaching toward Hope

Centering Possibility in Courses on Collective Problems

chapter 5|17 pages

Experience Matters

Belonging Interventions, the Student Experience, and Student Success in Class

chapter 6|19 pages

Designing with Grace in Mind

Intentionality in Teaching and Learning Practices

chapter 7|13 pages

Trauma Informed Teaching

Looking Back on a Decade

part Section 3|102 pages

Tools for Engagement

chapter 10|16 pages

Supporting the Students We Never “Meet”

Strategies for Increasing Retention in the Online Classroom

chapter 11|18 pages

Setting Expectations

Using the Four Tendencies Framework in Higher Education

chapter 13|16 pages

Deviant Interactions or Interaction as Deviance?

Using Norm Violation Assignments in the Post-COVID Era

chapter 14|16 pages

Inclusive Podcast Pedagogies

Three Models and Strategies for Creating Engaging and Accessible Assignments