How Do I Start Each Class Session?
A good start to your class can help build community, establish the depth and character of your learning environment, provide hands-on engagement, give students an opportunity to connect their experience to course topics, and set an inclusive foundation for learning.
How Do I Keep My Students Engaged in Large Courses?
Frequent check-ins, building in interactions, and bringing in real-world examples can help keep your students engaged in large classes.
How Do I Best Engage Students During Synchronous Class Sessions?
You decided to offer synchronous class sessions to your students, but to fully use the possibilities these tools offer, you need to consider the specifics of this media and intentionally redesign the content and learning activities for it.
How Do I Facilitate Effective Group Work?
Build successful group work characterized by trust, psychological safety, clarity of expectations, and good communication.
How Do I Use Note Catchers to Support Group Work and Collaborative Note Taking?
Note catchers, shared collaborative documents accessed in real time, keep students focused and help you monitor online or in-person group work.
How Do I Increase Student Engagement with Participation Agreements?
Students engage and participate when there is a class climate in which they feel safe, supported, and encouraged to express their thoughts, values, experiences, and perspectives.
How Do I Structure Discussions for Deeper Learning?
Carefully structuring discussions can promote deeper learning by giving space and time for processing new material.
How Do I Engage Students in Difficult Class Discussions Around Sensitive Topics?
Practices and strategies that you can use to help you and your students talk in ways that support positive engagement and minimize harm and unproductive conflict.
How Do I Choose Between Dialogue, Debate and Discussion to Explore Challenging Topics?
Each structure has its own goal and process. Depending on your learning objectives, class environment, and course content, one structure might make better sense for you and your students.
How Do I Navigate Hot Moments in the Classroom?
Strategies for navigating and managing yourself during hot moments during class discussions, and helping students process conflict.
How Do I Set My Students Up for Success using Flexible Teaching Strategies?
Flexible teaching strategies allow students to choose a learning path that works best for their needs.
How Do I End a Course Successfully?
There are a range of strategies that can help you and your students reinforce learning at the very end of the semester, including reflections, celebrations, framing course evaluations, and more. Read our page on ending the semester on a positive note, and pick up some new ideas.
