Spring 2025

Integrating Well-Being Education in the Language Classroom

The Spring 2025 Share Fair, which took place on April 4th, featured a series of 5-minute presentations from graduate students on language teaching topics and well-being, such as:

  • Emotional and physical well-being
  • Digital and technological health and wellness
  • Building healthy relationships in the classroom
Opening remarks
Keynote Speech: Lindsay Giacomino

Keynote Speaker

Lindsay Giacomino

(The College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Spanish and Portuguese)

Lindsay Giacomino is a Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University Bloomington, where she supervises the S105 intensive first-year Spanish course. She is passionate about innovative pedagogy and active learning strategies. Her teaching interests include proficiency-based curriculum design, task-based language teaching, and the integration of educational technology and generative AI in the classroom. Always learning and evolving, she considers herself a work in progress.

Presentations

Xinyi Hu & Hsin-Yu Yeh, EALC  "AI & well-being: start with a healthy mind"
Melissa Lapalus, EDUC "The power of small gestures in language class: enhancing student well-being"
Elke Defever, FRIT "Wellness and language challenges"
Nicolas Noé, FRIT "Moving beyond the desk: integrating body awareness and well-being in the language classroom"
Kaung Myat, SEAS "How students go beyond my teaching and the effectiveness of the review lesson videos"
Miyabi Suzuki, EALC "Fostering comfortable peer conversations to deepen the connection in a classroom"
Luca Csák, CEUS "Mindful language learning: integrating mindfulness and gratitude in the classroom"
Sabina Iusupova, SLAV "Oh no, I've made a mistake!"