Healthy Pedagogy integrates sincere mindfulness of the health and well-being of instructors and students into course design and the craft of teaching. By fostering caring, creative, and inclusive participation in the classroom and beyond, both teachers and students can experience engaging communities of learning.
- Who: Faculty and Teaching Assistants
- What: A 6-Week, course development certificate program on healthy pedagogy, inclusive excellence, and DEI, exploring various ways these values materialize in teaching and learning contexts. Featuring guest experts across various academic disciplines.
- When: Spring 2024. 7, 1.5 hr. synchronous meetings will be held online every Wednesday from 11:30am - 1:00pm for 6 weeks, beginning April 17th and ending May 29th.
- Where: Entirely online with opportunities for both synchronous and asynchronous participation.
Criteria for Participation: While instructors from across the UC are encouraged to participate informally, regardless of the modalities in which they teach, up to 15 UC Riverside instructors of online courses that are open to cross-enrolled students, may qualify to receive a Art and Science of Healthy Pedagogy certificate and $1,000 stipend.
Instructors who are interested in formal participation are invited to submit a proposal to enhance one aspect of an online course opened to students enrolled from across the UCs, using either at least one dimension of the UC-Wide, DEI Rubric (GDoc), the UCR DEI Rubric (Request Form for access to GDoc), or one suggestion from the UCR “Healthy Campus Guide to Well-Being in Learning Environments" (PDF ⤓).
Proposal Deadline: March 1st, 2024
Applicants will be notified: March 15th, 2024
Instructions: Please submit your interest in formal participation in the “Art and Science of Healthy Pedagogy” program to the form below.
For general interest and informal participation, please complete The Art & Science of Healthy Pedagogy: Registration for Informal Participation form instead.
We will follow up to provide further details for participation. Thank you for your interest!
