Teaching Practices

The Bp-Net.ca Team is curating faculty guides and resources that support student wellbeing. If your institution has additional resources you would like to contribute or if you have other helpful resources to add to this page, please e-mail us at info@bp-net.ca.

Hosted by the Centre for Innovation in Campus Mental Health, this webinar builds on the December 2020 webinar, “Supporting faculty and staff to create a healthy and engaging learning environment,” by considering the University of Saskatchewan (USASK) as a case study, where, in line with the sector nationally and internationally, there is an increasing number of students experiencing and reporting mental health challenges often closely related to academic program stresses.

Hosted by the Centre for Innovation in Campus Mental Health (CICMH), this interactive webinar aims to highlight some important considerations, anecdotes and findings that impact the mental health and wellness of the learning environment. We will be sharing information from the recently released Mental Health Toolkit for Faculty and Staff (see link below) and discussing these considerations with guests representing the voice of both faculty and support staff. 

Developed by the Centre for Innovation in Campus Mental Health (CICMH), this toolkit aims to help faculty and teaching staff take steps within the classroom in a collective effort to support student mental health.
The Mental Health and the Learning Environment Toolkit provides recommendations to provide support for faculty working to embed mental well-being into everyday practice.

These guidelines outline best practices for graduate supervision at the University of Toronto and assist all participants in the supervisory process to have a clear understanding of responsibilities and expectations in order to optimize the graduate experience and prevent or reduce potential problems or conflicts.

Studies have indicated that good mental health and wellbeing enhances a student’s ability to learn. Evidence also shows that different teaching practices affect student learning outcomes. The “Identifying the influence of teaching practices on undergraduate students’ mental health and wellbeing” project explored which teaching practices best support student wellbeing and effective student learning.

Creating positive classrooms, lecture halls and research labs where students feel supported and connected helps to promote and enhance learning outcomes and equip them for success. The University of British Columbia has developed a teaching + learning resources website, where faculty members can find tools to help support student wellbeing in learning environments.