Teaching, Mentoring, and Student Wellbeing

Faculty & Staff resources for mentoring, teaching, and student wellbeing

Faculty Mentor Resources

Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER) website. They have various mentorship training for all career stages, they have trainings on managing mentor relationships, culturally aware mentoring, and much more.

The Council of Graduate Schools has compiled a toolkit of mentoring resources.

Wiscience has various faculty mentor workshops and resources.

Resources for supporting student wellbeing

Office of Student Assistance and Support– various resources including a healthy academic toolkit, reporting a student of concern, FERPA policy information, helping a student with anxiety and much more.

Recognize, Respond, Refer: Suicide Prevention Trainings – It a new training from UHS for Faculty, staff and they even have a version for graduate students.

UHShas other resources for faculty and staff.

McBurney Disability Resource Center, Disability Accommodations for Students –  Explore resources for instructors including an Instructor Guide to Student Accommodations, FAQs and the updated McBurney Connect Instructor Portal (new to the portal is a Limited Flexibility Plans Module to help instructors set reasonable parameters for Flexibility accommodations).

Teaching Resources

“Prepare to Teach” resources are compiled by the Center for Teaching, Learning and Mentoring including a pre-semester checklist, events and more from across campus.

Teaching and Learning Technologies – There are teaching and learning tools on campus from UW and sometimes they have remote training sessions about various technology resources and topics.

Teaching Academy – Explore Teaching Academy resources and opportunities.

Center for Campus History – Check out a collection of curricular resources (some available in Canvas) including teaching guides that provide resources about historical moments of discrimination and resistance at UW–Madison.

Preparing for and Responding to Teaching Challenges – This new guide can help instructors anticipate and respond to a range of challenges that may arise in the classes they teach.

Generative AI – Check out UW’s generative AI guidance and resources. It’s especially important to include a statement in your course syllabi summarizing your expectations for students’ use of AI – view some examples from UW–Madison instructors.

L&S instructional Design Collaborative – they have resources and initiatives towards supporting teaching, learning, and technology.