This resource provides guidance for incorporating community building activities into a course to foster belonging, increase engagement, and build collaboration and communication skills. It includes strategies and considerations for using community building activities as well as sample activities categorized by purpose. Keywords: community building, icebreakers, belonging, inclusion, collaboration, group work.
This resource describes different kinds of rubrics and considerations for selecting a rubric best aligned with an instructor’s grading practice, assignments, and learning objectives. Examples of rubrics are provided.
Keywords: rubric, assessment, assignment, evaluation, learning objective
This resource provides an overview of creating and using community agreements in a course to support respectful and productive student engagement. It includes options for how to create agreements, tips for implementation, and example agreements.
Keywords: community agreements, discussion norms, discussion guidelines, community guidelines, challenging discussions, academic discussions, dialogue, student engagement.
This resource covers strategies for facilitating academic discussions in a variety of teaching settings, including tips for planning discussions, options for whole and small-group discussion types, considerations for assessing student discussions, and relevant research.
Keywords: discussion, small group discussion, discussion forums, active learning, community agreements, discussion norms, strategic questions, participation.
This resource provides strategies on active learning for a variety of teaching settings, including tips for implementation, sample activity descriptions, options for planning active learning, and relevant research.
This resource provides options for faculty who may need to teach their labs online because teaching assistant support is not available to them. It includes pedagogical considerations, links to databases of STEM content, and links to simulation and video resources.
This resource provides tips and considerations for instructors in facilitating discussions or activities in large enrollment classes without teaching assistant support.
This resource provides strategies for integrating current event topics into your course.
Keywords: current events, discussion, challenging discussions, academic dialogue, facilitation, controversial topics, active learning.
This resource provides a checklist of considerations for providing student feedback verbally, in writing, or through video.
This resource provides suggestions for effective communication with students to advance your teaching goals and to help maintain work-life balance and wellbeing for both instructors and students. It lists an array of options for communicating with students and identifies campus resources available to faculty when communications require intervention.
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