School of Public Health Resilient Teaching

About This Site

The Oxford Dictionary provides two definitions for the word Resiliency ¹"the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness" and ²"the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity". In light of 2020's turbulent global changes, especially in the field of Education when a sudden and forced shift to remote learning was required, a new term began circulating in our industry "Resilient Teaching". This term has been defined by one of UM's own leading experts in the field as:

Resilient Teaching: "The ability to facilitate learning experiences that are designed to be adaptable to fluctuating conditions and disruptions."

- Rebecca Quintana, PhD, Learning Experience Design Lead at the Center for Academic Innovation

To best support and address the specific needs of SPH faculty and staff the Instructional Support Services team felt it necessary to provide a curated and unified location of resources for developing and strengthening your own resilient teaching skills. This canvas course serves as that platform. It is constantly being updated and includes materials from related previous workshops, handouts, readings, templates, and a community for sharing ideas and resources that you have found useful.

Workshops & Materials

See What's New in Canvas

Browse our Self-Led Training Modules

Fall 2024 Workshops

Poll Everywhere: incorporate real-time feedback into your class time that you can use this to gauge understanding, generate ideas, or collect and answer questions.
Gradescope: is built to help streamline your grading process on digital and paper assessments leveraging features not available in Canvas
Perusall: a collaborative online reading tool that allows students to comment on and discuss the materials you assign. Flexible for ungraded collaboration, or for a grade
^New! Peerceptiv: a robust peer learning platform that supports individual and group submissions, presentations, and team-member evaulations.

Fall 2022 Workshops

Gradescope and Canvas
Peer Review: Strategies and Tools
What Are New Quizzes?
Building Community with Discussion Tools

Summer 2022 Workshop Series

Introducing Kritik: Get More Out of Peer Review
Beyond Participation: Tools and Strategies for Assessing Active Learning
Learning by Doing: Case Studies, Simulations, Peer Reviews, & Tech Tools
Boost Participation with Perusall
Poll Everywhere
Do More With Panopto
Tech Talks for GSIs

Fall 2021 Workshop Series

Canvas Course Checklist
Follow the Yellowdig Road! Using Yellowdig to Create a Social Learning Community
GSweet! Teaching with Google Collaboration Tools
Digital Inclusion and Accessible Learning Design
Tools For Collaboration And Engagement
Transparent Assignment Design
Classroom Recording with Panopto
Getting Ready for Your Remote Students

GSI Workshops

2020 Resilient Teaching workshop

This workshop occurred in summer 2020. Its goal was to build our program's capacity to deliver a high-quality education to students under adverse conditions. Synchronous sessions were recorded and have been uploaded for your convenience.