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After a Tragedy or Loss | MIT Faculty Guide

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The effects of a tragedy are often felt most intensely in the classroom. Sometimes the first face a student sees after a tragedy is their professor's. Although students who are impacted directly are often the most affected, tragedies ripple across campus and affect different people in different ways. If a professor starts class by jumping right into a lesson without acknowledging what has happened, it can feel disconcerting or upsetting to students who are often having many thoughts and feelings about what they are experiencing. The following are suggestions for what you, as a faculty member, can do to help your students cope in the immediate aftermath of a tragedy or loss. This doesn't have to take a long time. It shows your students that it's normal to be thinking about what happened. Ask broad, open-ended questions such as, "How's everyone feeling about...?"; or "How are people reacting to..." Sharing your experience helps humanize you. It's even okay to show emotion. If you don't f

After a Tragedy or Loss – MIT Faculty Guide Skip to content After a Tragedy or Loss The effects of a tragedy are often felt most intensely in the classroom. Sometimes the first face a student sees after a tragedy is their professor’s. Although students who are impacted directly are often the most affected, tragedies ripple across campus and affect different people in different ways. If a professor starts class by jumping right into a lesson without acknowledging what has happened, it can feel disconcerting or upsetting to students who are often having many thoughts and feelings abo

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