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We are fast approaching the first day of classes, Monday, August 23. Many of you will be teaching this semester and will confront the challenge of keeping yourself safe, along with your students, colleagues and families, while doing the most effective job
possible in the classroom. With this email I'm offering some UA resources to help you manage these tasks.</div>
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First and foremost, the following link will provide you comprehensive and continuously updated information about the University's recommendations for managing through the coronavirus era. The page is the product of the ongoing work of the Pandemic Academic
Coordination (PAC) working group. Keep this link handy. </div>
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Upcoming Information Session . Please join members of the Pandemic Academic Coordination (PAC) workgroup for an information session for faculty and instructors to assist in planning for Fall 2021 teaching.. Monday, August 16, 2021, from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm.
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You will notice a registration link for the upcoming faculty information session, Monday, August 16, 2021 that is specifically designed to help instructional faculty plan for Fall 2021. I expect that we will hear the latest information about class sizes, instructional
environment, safety and cleaning protocols, etc. </div>
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In addition, the PAC link also has a section labeled <b>Academic Instruction Resources.</b> This contains a treasure trove of information related to teaching on campus during the pandemic. I strongly suggest spending some time on this site to review categories
of information. You will discover many useful resources, including the latest communications from the President and Provost regarding campus re-entry conditions. And, these are continuously updated, so if you are wondering about the latest announcements
or whether you've missed a key memo, check here first.</div>
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One of the challenges that teaching faculty will confront this semester is the prospect of teaching with a mask. Most of you have never done it for a full semester. This week I contacted Lisa Elfring, Associate Vice Provost in the Office of Instruction and
Assessment to get her advice. Lisa indicated that OIA doesn't have any particular videos or materials on the topic, but she did offer the following information about the availability of microphones, etc. </div>
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Here is what Lisa had to say:</div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">"1. Most large classrooms are equipped with microphones. If you visit </span><a href="https://ctsrooms.arizona.edu/rooms" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" style="margin:0px"><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">https://ctsrooms.arizona.edu/rooms</span></a><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">,
and click on the room, you’ll get a list of the equipment, which will indicate if microphones are available. Big rooms often have more than one—a lavaliere model for the instructor, and a hand-held or more than one for class participants.</span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">2. For those rooms, the microphones are at the teaching station—often in a drawer. If there are concerns about operation, Classroom Tech Support is available at 520-621-3382. </span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">3. In my experience ( I have a loud teacher voice), clipping to the collar/top of my shirt picks up the voice perfectly well. I have one colleague with a tiny voice who needed to use the hand-held
version to consistently get her voice to be heard.</span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">I completely understand the concerns you lay out in your message. Nuance is definitely lost when half your face is covered! If one were to mask yourself, I wonder if one could talk about that with
your students and involve them in developing an alternative nonverbal system that conveys meaning in the classroom? That sounds like a nice community-building exercise, especially when coupled with a conversation about why it’s important that others be able
to see the nuance in our responses during a class meeting. I imagine that would resonate with students who have had to do the exhausting work of figuring this out over Zoom for the past 3 semesters."</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I hope you find this information helpful as you prepare for the semester. As we all know too well, conditions are fluid and the University may need to pivot on short notice. We've been down this road before. Please try
to stay flexible and not be dismayed if conditions shift and we must once again make last-minute changes to instructional delivery. We know that our students are greatly looking forward to a semester that gets them closer to "normal" than they've experienced
in the past 18 months. I know that collectively we'll do our absolute best to provide them with that experience, subject to the constraints of the pandemic. </span><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Good luck with your preparations, and stay alert for updates. As always, don't hesitate to contact me if you have additional questions. </span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Best regards,</span></div>
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