{"id":4119,"date":"2025-09-22T14:12:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/faculty-development-center\/?post_type=furman-update&p=4119"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:00:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:00:29","slug":"make-the-middle-mid-term-magic","status":"publish","type":"furman-update","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/faculty-development-center\/updates\/make-the-middle-mid-term-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Make the Middle (Mid-term?) Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Welcome, October! In this middle month of the semester we encourage you to find ways to \u201cmake the middle magic\u201d.\u00a0 Historically \u201cthe middle\u201d gets a bad rap.\u00a0 Middle-school, middle-age, even the middle part of a hammock\u2014as relaxing as it might seem\u2014sags low, making escape from repose an almost acrobatic feat.\u00a0 As we move through our now-familiar daily flight patterns and quotidian tasks, what small thing might make this time optimally meaningful for you?\u00a0 In February we talked about \u201c<\/span>Feedback as the Highest Form of Agape Love\u201d<\/span><\/a> and shared resources for mid-semester feedback from students and the more structured <\/span>Small Group Instructional Feedback Process<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Conducting an internal audit with these SGIF-inspired prompts may illuminate clues about your own mid-course reset to promote wellbeing:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n