Instructing With Excellence: Balancing Student Support With Healthy Boundaries

This workshop-style presentation creates space for engaged and caring instructors to mindfully consider where and how they set boundaries with students as they offer excellent instruction and support. We will discuss specific and individualized ways professors can be both outstanding teachers who care AND set healthy boundaries. We will identify common unintentional mistakes that can lead to burnout and liability risks and offer suggestions. Participants will have the opportunity to intentionally consider where they want to set their boundaries and pinpoint specific behaviors to support their boundary choices. Participants will engage in exercises to consider the impact of verbal and non-verbal boundary cues as well as do "script work" based on commonly-faced scenarios to help develop effective caring + boundary-setting language. Specific course policies that support healthy boundaries will also be shared.