How Role Clarity and Boundaries Can Help Us Thrive

Karen Costa shares how role clarity and boundaries can help us thrive on episode 505 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I saw people being asked to, like, completely revamp their entire course and learn how to online, but nothing was removed from their plate.
-Karen Costa

So the first question I want folks to ask themselves is what are my qualifications in this role.
-Karen Costa

Just because you are qualified to do it does not mean that it is yours.
-Karen Costa

I didn’t know what boundaries were until I was about 35 years old, and it’s taken me about 7 years of really challenging interpersonal work to understand what boundaries are and to feel confident in setting boundaries for myself.
-Karen Costa

Resources

• Students Crossing Boundaries: Rudeness, disruptions, unrealistic demands. Where to draw the line? in The Chronicle of Higher Education, by Beth McMurtrie
• Scope of Practice Template, developed by Karen Costa
• Trauma-Informed Pedagogies: A Guide for Responding to Crisis and Inequality in Higher Education, edited by Phyllis Thompson, Janice Carello
• An Educator’s Scope of Practice: How Do I Know What’s Mine?, Karen Costa’s Chapter in Trauma-Informed Pedagogies
• 99 Tips for Creating Simple and Sustainable Educational Videos: A Guide for Online Teachers and Flipped Classes, by Karen Costa
• Let’s Talk About Menopause, by Karen Costa for Inside Higher Ed
• The 12-week plan for building courses, by Robert Talbert