Articles and resources to empower your teaching experience.
As we head into the final weeks of the semester and focus on making it through the end of the syllabus, with all of the class prep, assignment organizing, and grading that entails, remember that your students are also facing the pre- and post-Thanksgiving deluge of work and stress. It’s never too late to try a new way to check in with them and help them think through their own learning process, especially at a time of the semester when they may be focusing only on deadlines.
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What a great turnout at last week’s (11/6/25) Teaching Matters morning coffee! Sixteen colleagues from across academic divisions and offices joined us to wrestle with the challenges–new and old–of designing and implementing effective in-class assessments. We talked through some of our reasons for using in-class assessments, including long-term pedagogical practices and more recent AI-related concerns. In the process, colleagues shared a variety of approaches that are working in their classrooms, including:
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These resources address ways to connect with our students as mentors:
These articles give ideas on student engagement during class time:
We can help students engage in the hard sustained work of learning; these articles have some useful insights:
These articles give some good ideas for supporting our students with reading:
Both students and faculty feel anxious sometimes; here’s some articles exploring ways to manage or relieve anxiety:
These articles include ideas for teaching success and avoiding burnout:
Explore the following resources that offer general classroom advice:
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| 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. |
