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Kognito: Teaching the Whole Student √ §

A simulation for cultivating wellness in college students

Location

Online

Date & Time

March 30, 2023, 12:00 pm1:00 pm

Description

Have you ever taught a student whom you suspected was experiencing a mental health crisis? As course instructors, how do we know our responsibilities and limitations in supporting these students? Join the FDC to explore and discuss Kognito; an interactive, online, simulation designed to support college teaching faculty in responding to their students’ signs of crisis. Kognito is a technology supported by UMBC’s Integrated Wellness Center and is encouraged as a tool for educating the “whole” college student. That is, when faculty strengthen their skills to recognize and support students experiencing distress (even seemingly unrelated to class), they facilitate students’ ability to learn successfully. Registrants of this FDC session are encouraged to begin or complete the Kognito simulation before the meeting time. During our session, we will discuss participants’ experiences with, and questions about, the interactive tool and its potential role in reformed pedagogy at UMBC.

Please click “Going Virtually” below to reserve your seat for this session, and we will send you a Google calendar invitation with a WebEx link one hour before the session. If you register less than an hour before the session, you will receive the WebEx link when you register. Please email fdc@umbc.edu if you have any questions. If you have registered and find that you can no longer attend, please kindly release your spot so that others may attend.

√ Counts toward the ALIT Certificate
§ Counts toward the INNOVATE Certificate

Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash.

Part of the FDC Diverse Classroom Series
Launched in February 2017!


Sessions in this series are designed to help you capture UMBC’s strengths in diversity to create vibrant learning environments--environments that effectively challenge and support every student. During interactive sessions, faculty and staff colleagues will help you address challenges and explore key questions, for example,
  • How can you learn about your classroom audience to better connect with your students and reflect on their learning needs?
  • How can you make your classroom more hospitable for all learners?
  • How can you handle sensitive discussions in your classroom?
  • How can you ensure that students from different academic and social backgrounds and with different physical and cognitive abilities experience classrooms where they are welcomed, challenged, and supported?
All faculty are welcome to attend, especially those who...
  • aspire to make their classrooms more inclusive of our diverse student population.
For additional resources, see https://calt.umbc.edu/teaching/the-diverse-classroom/.