Supporting Student Well-being for Academic Success
This module is about providing faculty with practical skills to prioritize and support student wellbeing within the structure, content, pedagogy, environment and interactions of their courses. The module assumes that as faculty, we are responsible for helping students develop holistically, which includes addressing their mental health and wellbeing (regardless of the content we teach).
Faculty Fellow
Dr. Goodman developed and teaches “Promoting Wellbeing”, a credit-bearing course which aims to support student wellness and academic success. She also teaches “Human Sexuality and Health Science”, and mentors undergraduate and graduate students. Her work at UIC focuses on the development of mental health and wellbeing supports. Leah serves as faculty advisor for the Mental Health and Disability Alliance, sits on the Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Persons with Disabilities, and is an Honors College Fellow. She is interested in exploring the ways we define and provide student support, and seeks to develop initiatives that promote wellbeing, inclusion, health, equity, and student success.
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Supplemental Resources
These resources were compiled by Faculty Fellow Leah Goodman.
Exit-Tickets
From the Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, Brown University.
Content + Trigger Warnings
A collection of syllabus statements from colleagues at various universities.
Social–Emotional Learning
SEL activities for higher ed, from Society for the Teaching of Psychology.
Classroom Agreements
Also called ‘community norms’ or ‘ground rules’ or ‘guidelines,’ these are some examples from our colleagues at various institutions.
Process-Oriented Feedback
A short paper from colleagues at Butler University.