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Follow up the question “How are you?” with asking your students deeper questions, like “How’s your stress level?”, to show you care and to dig below the surface-level small talk when you bump into your students.

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  • This helps build more meaningful personal and professional relationships between you and your students.
  • Additionally, deep questions like these can help create opportunities for your students to open up and talk about things that are causing them significant stress, things they may have kept to themselves otherwise.
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Effective Encouragement
Student-Faculty Interaction
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Colleen Lewis
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