Episode 180 - When Students Are Fatigued: Courtney Bryant
Dialogue on Teaching, Wabash Center’s podcast series, is hosted by Nancy Lynne Westfield, Ph.D., Director of the Wabash Center. Amplifying the Wabash Center’s mission, the podcasts focus upon issues of teaching and learning in theology and religion within colleges, university, seminaries, as well as the publics impacted by these schools. Dialogues with faculty and administrators working in the wide range of institutional contexts illumine the complexity of teaching and the teaching life.
Students are signaling a zeal for learning and, equally, a saturation with life’s challenges.
Nimbleness in teaching is, indeed, a scholarly practice. Re-tailoring the syllabus during the semester models health, balance, and life-lasting learning.
Slowing the pace can lower anxiety and reaffirm accountability.