Mentoring Students

These resources address ways to connect with our students as mentors:

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Engaging Students in Classroom Learning

These articles give ideas on student engagement during class time:

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Helping Students do Hard Things

We can help students engage in the hard sustained work of learning; these articles have some useful insights:

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Supporting Student Reading

These articles give some good ideas for supporting our students with reading:

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Managing Student and Faculty Anxiety

Both students and faculty feel anxious sometimes; here’s some articles exploring ways to manage or relieve anxiety:

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Navigating Change and Avoiding Burnout

These articles include ideas for teaching success and avoiding burnout:

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Running an Effective Classroom

Explore the following resources that offer general classroom advice: 

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Teaching and Learning in the Age of AI

The following articles are helpful for thinking about the challenges and opportunities that large language models (LLMs) bring to teaching and learning: 

GenAI Use in the Classroom

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Getting Students Invested in Thinking in our Classes

In our Denison classes across campus, we often face the challenge of connecting with students across experience and interest levels all in a single classroom in ways that generate thinking and discussion. J. Muthoni Mwangi shares the concept of the “parking lot” (the low-tech version involves sticky notes and a manila folder) as a way to invite questions, create student investment in class, and break down barriers across knowledge and experience levels.  

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Identifying Unsupported Claims

In my W101, I am using AI-generated writing to teach students two things: (1) the pitfalls of submitting unrefined AI output in their assignments and (2) how to evaluate and revise writing. For example, I developed this group activity to help students learn how to identify unsupported claims.

When prompted to write a college-level essay, AI tends to generate a lot of unsupported claims.

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