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Have you heard of "THE PALS APPROACH"?

PALS is a methodology to use when you hear someone say something that may be problematic or hurtful to a specific group of people or yourself. The major objective of this approach is to stay connected with the person and speak your truth clearly.

Click the attachment below for a full description of P.A.L.S.

SOURCE: MSU Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives

Short-form Syllabus Template
This short-form syllabus template guides you to including all the elements required by the code of teaching conduct. Adhering to this template will help ensure that your syllabus meets MSU's digital content accessibility requirements.

The template has been updated with relevant date and policy changes for Spring 2024.

To use the template, download the file, open it in MS Word, then edit all areas enclosed in ***.

Want to gain experience sharing your work with a wider audience? This workshop is designed to help you describe your research project in three minutes using only a single Powerpoint slide. Participants will also gain experience providing helpful feedback to others on their presentation skills. The Translating Your Thesis to the World workshop, facilitated by Lauren Collier-Spruel, is now live! Check it out on MSU MediaSpace here: https://mediaspace.msu.edu/media/Translating+Your+Thesis+to+the+World/1_8ve9tomp

As we approach February 13th, advising leadership has shared that students have the option to request a grief absence, allowing them to take necessary time away during the week of February 13th. Please guide students to reach out to their academic advisors for further details. The advising unit leads will then coordinate with the student and their instructors, providing further information regarding the approved grief absence request. Additional details regarding MSU's grief absence policy can be found here: https://reg.msu.edu/roinfo/notices/griefabsence.aspx

According to Derald Wing Sue, “microaggressions are every day encounters of subtle discrimination that people of various marginalized identities experience throughout their lives.” They are often subtle and unintentional and the person who commits a microaggression is often unaware they have hurt someone. Nonetheless, the accumulated impact of daily microaggressions cause real pain, anxiety, depression, self doubt and may even have adverse health impacts on the recipients.

To learn more about microaggressions, click the attachment below.

SOURCE: MSU Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives

Research shows that diversity makes us smarter. Designing an inclusive classroom that allows students to share differing opinions in a brave space where people are treated with dignity can result in good learning outcomes for all. Conflict is a natural part of learning, and differences of opinion expressed in appropriate ways allow everyone to grow. An inclusive classroom allows the instructor to manage conflict in a way that harnesses differences so that they serve as learning opportunities for all.

Click the attachment below for some key elements to consider when designing an inclusive classroom.

SOURCE: MSU Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives

Thank you everyone for an interesting year of discussion in and around the ongoing challenge of how we might better motivate and engage our students in the physical and digital classroom here at MSU. With that in mind, I've complied a working bibliography, of sorts, containing (mostly) recent titles that provide practical information on motivating and engaging students, teaching critical/deeper thinking, the application universal design for learning, collaborative learning, reflective learning, culturally responsive and inclusive teaching practices, Ed Tech and digital learning among other approaches. All titles are readily available through Amazon. I hope you might find a few of the titles useful as we steam through the coming summer months and toward Fall 2022. Maybe there are a couple of titles here that might provide some lighter "beach reading" as we look forward to some downtime after a couple of difficult years.

Thank you again everyone!

Kind Regards,

Stokes and Garth

Messaging your students early in the semester is essential. For initial communication use the "email student in a class" tool on the RO site to ensure you're contacting 100% of your students via their preferred contact information. It's especially important that you communicate A) where class will convene, B) when class will convene, C) what your expectations for the first 3 weeks of class are, and 4) a brief introduction of yourself. It is also wise to attach a copy of your syllabus to this note, if you see fit.

This tool provides the highest level of certainty that you will be communicating with the most accurate roster of your students, and that the message will be delivered to their preferred email address. Once you meet as a class and have time to establish communication norms you can communicate using whatever tool is best for your class.

The tool can be found in Instructor Systems on the registrar's site (reg.msu.edu). You'll need to login with your MSU ID to access the tool.