TA decision guide

This document is a job aid to assist TAs with supporting students who may be in the following situations. For each situation, required or recommended actions are specified.

Sources: CET | Formats: Word document | Audience: TAs | Disciplines: Arts, Clinical, Gen Ed courses, Humanities, Performance, Social Science

Summative peer-evaluation processes

Flowcharts outlining faculty peer-evaluation processes

Sources: CET | Formats: Word document | Audience: Faculty | Disciplines: Arts, Clinical, Gen Ed courses, Humanities, Performance, Social Science, STEM

Strategic questioning techniques for discussion

A guide on how to use the strategic questioning process and strategic questions, with sample questions for each step of the process, for class discussions that may become challenging because they touch on personal or social change.

Sources: CET | Formats: Word document | Audience: Faculty, TAs | Disciplines: Arts, Clinical, Gen Ed courses, Humanities, Performance, Social Science, STEM

Six myths about peer review of teaching

Let’s look at some common myths about PRT and explore the realities behind those myths.

Sources: CET | Formats: Word document | Audience: Faculty | Disciplines: Arts, Clinical, Gen Ed courses, Humanities, Performance, Social Science, STEM

Pedagogical planning for residential experiences

Examples of how residential experiences may be planned, and a list of considerations for instructors who will be teaching residential experiences—meaning that they will teach students in person in a physical classroom at least part of the time during the semester and following university and departmental guidelines for physical distancing.

Sources: CET | Formats: Word document | Audience: Faculty | Disciplines: Arts, Clinical, Gen Ed courses, Humanities, Performance, Social Science, STEM

Guest speakers as an active learning opportunity

An explanation of how to facilitate an in-class active learning technique using a guest speaker, either live or recorded, for any size class.

Sources: CET | Formats: Word document | Audience: Faculty | Disciplines: Arts, Clinical, Gen Ed courses, Humanities, Performance, Social Science, STEM

Planning online assessment

This document introduces some options for developing and administering online assessments.

Sources: CET | Formats: Word document | Audience: Faculty, TAs | Disciplines: Arts, Clinical, Gen Ed courses, Humanities, Performance, Social Science, STEM

Open-book or take-home exams online

Considerations for administering exams online as open-book or take-home exams.

Sources: CET | Formats: Word document | Audience: Faculty, TAs | Disciplines: Arts, Clinical, Gen Ed courses, Humanities, Performance, Social Science, STEM

First day of class for TAs

A checklist of the content recommended for the first day of holding a section in a new semester. The checklist is appropriate for both classroom and online courses.

Sources: CET | Formats: Word document | Audience: TAs | Disciplines: Arts, Clinical, Gen Ed courses, Humanities, Performance, Social Science, STEM

Group work

A comprehensive guide to using group work in courses.  This resource contains strategies planning, facilitating, and evaluating effective group assignments and activities, as well as quick tips for some common challenges in group work.

Keywords: group work, assignments, active learning, collaboration.

Sources: CET | Formats: Word document | Audience: Faculty, TAs | Disciplines: Arts, Clinical, Gen Ed courses, Humanities, Performance, Social Science, STEM