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MCC Daily Tribune

TCC: Tip of the Day - Include COVID-19 in your curriculum choices

For the next few weeks, we are inviting our faculty to share stories and images from their virtual classes. What is working well? What are you learning about teaching, teaching online and your students?

Today's highlights are from faculty who are using COVID-19 as content to meet their learning outcomes.

Mike Nolan, ESOL/TRS created a video about a "Survivor Tree" near Sea Breeze. He assigned students an essay about surviving based on this poem that he wrote about a tree in Rochester.

Survivor Tree

I am a survivor tree!

Branches fell on me

I still stand strong

Limbs tried to break me

I still stand strong

I am bent, misshapen - but NOT broken

I still stand strong

I grow and shine my lights

I am a survivor tree

We all need to be survivors

Stand and show your strength

Shed light, brighten the dark sky

Be a survivor tree

The world needs you

Nayda Pares-Kane, AHPS, teaches a global Sociology course that typically deals with pandemics, but the type of discussion real life application of the curriculum has really come to life this semester. So many of her students are seeing in real time how global issues have no borders.

Gena Merliss offered students a new choice for a final COS 101 project - to write an extensive reflection on the impact of COVID-19 on their lives and education. Most students chose this option rather than the original assignment.

What else? Please share how you are bringing COVID-19 into your class to meet your learning outcomes. How is it helping your students learn?

If you would like to talk about what's happening in your classes join the daily non-judgmental conversations about teaching during COVID-19. These happen daily from 9 - 10 am and 3 - 4 pm.

https://monroecommunity.zoom. us/j/672991431

Meeting ID: 672-991-431

1-929-205-6099

If you have a story to share, email Gena Merliss: emerliss@monroecc.edu.

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Eugenia Merliss
Teaching & Creativity Center
04/28/2020