Chapter 6- Resilient and Flexible Teaching (RAFT): Integrating a Whole-Person Experience Into Online Teaching

When venturing into wild or unknown territory such as a swiftly moving and ever-changing mountain river, a raft may be a necessary tool for basic survival. But what if during the careful navigation of rapid currents around rocks and other obstacles, you discover that your buoyant and flexible tool helps you to float through the fast and turbulent waters in a way that is meaningful, awe-inspiring, and exciting? As COVID-19 first hit our campuses, many of us switched to emergency remote education as a survival raft, just trying to stay afloat long enough to get to the other side of the semester without drowning. We quickly abandoned in-person teaching and jumped aboard online platforms, scrambling to provide continuity in learning and curriculum for our students. But as we begin to further explore these new waters, perhaps we will see our pandemic year as a catalyst for building a better equipped, sturdier, and more graceful model of resilient and flexible teaching (RAFT)

Resilient Pedagogy: Practical Teaching Strategies to Overcome Distance, Disruption, and Distraction

Resilient Pedagogy offers a comprehensive collection on the topics and issues surrounding resilient pedagogy framed in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the social justice movements that have swept the globe. As a collection, Resilient Pedagogy is a multi-disciplinary and multi-perspective response to actions taken in different classrooms, across different institution types, and from individuals in different institutional roles with the purpose of allowing readers to explore the topics to improve their own teaching practice and support their own students through distance, disruption, and distraction

Integrating a Whole-Person Experience

This podcast discusses concepts from chapter 6, Resilient and Flexible Teaching (RAFT): Integrating a Whole-Person Experience Into Online Teaching. Chapter 6 is available here: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/resiped/11