Center for Excellence in TeachingChallenging discussions 4: Plan a challenging discussion
Strategies for planning class discussions, including a positive class atmosphere, discussion norms, grading discussions, and acceptable sources of information.
Resources: Group Work
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.
Peer feedback form for group presentations
A sample form for use by students when they are observing other students’ class presentations, focusing on constructive suggestions for improvement.
Using Google Suite tools
A video demonstration by Artineh Samkian on ways to incorporate Google Suite into your course design and teaching.
Motivating Students
A practical guide for instructors on the research-backed principles behind student motivation, with strategies for course design, class facilitation, feedback, and communication that help students stay engaged and persist through challenges.
Facilitating a rubric norming session for TAs
A description of a norming session, and a recommended facilitation process for holding a norming session that trains multiple TAs of the same course to grade consistently using a rubric.