Our Role as Instructors

As instructors, we can help students meet our high standards and engage in the complex learning and exploration that we expect of them by creating learning environments that promote well-being. Even small shifts can make a major difference for students.The purpose of this guidebook isn’t to make a class, lab, community placement, or clinical rotation easier or less rigorous or to impede your academic freedom. Instead, you’ll find strategies here which you may want to consider to support students in meeting the challenges of a demanding curriculum. As instructors we can support the mental well-being of students by educating ourselves about mental health, considering our responses to the mental health concerns of our students, employing self-care as key elements of a collective, creative whole institution approach to student well-being (Hill et al., 2020).