Conducting Class

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Once your course is underway, you’re faced with lots and lots of decisions: how to balance discussion and lecture, how to handle difficult conversations, how to encourage active learning and reflection, and much more. Below you’ll find a variety of resources to help you make the most out of every session.

Resources

Active Learning

Active learning is an approach to education that does not consider students to be the passive recipients of knowledge transmitted from an expert, but rather, …

Starting the Semester

A successful semester not only ends well—it also begins well. Thought and preparation can allow you to set a productive tone and direction from the …

Planning and Leading Class

Good class sessions rarely just happen; they usually grow out of careful planning and execution.Planning the Class SessionDesigning a successful class session will, like course …

Lecturing Effectively

The lecture is a commonplace in many academic disciplines; also commonplace, however, are concerns that lectures can be unengaging, unproductive, a haven for uncreative teaching, …

Teaching Assistants

The presence of teaching assistants in courses has become so commonplace that we might be tempted to give that aspect of the class little thought—we …

Difficult Discussions

Difficult discussions are an inescapable part of higher education. While certain topics lend themselves to more divisive conversations, difficult discussions can even crop up in …

Experiential Learning

What is Experiential Learning?Experiential learning’s central tenet is that “learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience. Knowledge results from …

Classroom Response Systems

Polling systems and clickers foster interactive, responsive classrooms via live polling and Q&A during class. These softwares capture student responses and instantly tallies and produces …

Universal Design for Learning

To teach effectively, your teaching must be accessible to your students, all of whom come to the classroom with varied backgrounds, expectations, and abilities. This …

Teaching Seminar Courses

Seminars—small classes typically driven by discussion and other forms of active learning and in which students often take on teaching roles and responsibilities—offer tremendous opportunities …

Ending the Semester

A semester is a marathon effort, and, by the time you reach the end of it, it’s quite possible that everyone—you and the students both—will …

Inclusive Pedagogy Toolkit

IntroductionDesigning the learning environment to be meaningful, relevant, and accessible for every student in your course/program is inclusive pedagogy. It’s also consistent with Georgetown values …

Inclusive Pedagogy

Inclusive pedagogy is a student-centered approach to teaching that pays attention to the varied background, learning styles, and abilities of all the learners in front …

Asynchronous Engagement

Sometimes students can't all meet in the classroom, for all sorts of reasons—but they can still have an opportunity to engage with course material. It’s …

Opportunities

CNDLS Curriculum Enrichment Grants

These grants are intended to help faculty and students take advantage of the resources of the larger community, bringing the curricular and co-curricular together in order to give students in a richer sense of the broader implications and applications of work in that particular discipline.

Engelhard Conversations on Teaching

Engelhard Faculty Conversations on Teaching aim to create a small community of colleagues for deep exploration of various topics that relate to teaching and well-being, and foster connections with each other around the work we do here at Georgetown.