Toolkit: Resilient Teaching

The purpose of this document is to provide instructors with a suite of resources that may help them navigate particular challenges, like optional attendance policies, interpersonal activities, equity challenges, and preserving class community.

Administering Tests and Quizzes – As you prepare for the upcoming semester, keep in mind that even if you’re teaching 100% in-person, some of your students may not be able to attend. We’ve provided information on several topics around assessment that we thought you may be interested in.

10 Tips for Recorded Lectures – Although we all believe that students should want to watch all of the recording we create, regardless of length, the reality is that is seldom the case. This page contains tips and best practices around providing lecture content to students.

Navigate masked in-person and online group work – Instructional strategies for teaching in a physically-distanced classroom and classrooms that have streaming capabilities with the goal of creating full course citizenship for all students. This means that all students will have access to an equivalent learning experience.

Equitable Communications with all Students – Much of the communicating you’ll be doing for Fall will have to move between modalities, unless you’re teaching exclusively online. By considering possible communications issues now, you’ll be better prepared to reduce student confusion and misunderstanding, regardless of how they’re attending at a particular point in time.

Fostering Community for Students who Can and Cannot Attend In-Person – One of the things you’ll have to consider this semester is fostering community between different groups of students: the ones who can attend in-person and the ones who can attend remotely. We’ve provided some examples of how you might address this challenge.

Keeping Everyone on Track – Consider these tips as you’re readying your course for Fall delivery to help keep all of your students keep on task and at the same point in the class.

Tips for Instructors in Lecture Streaming and Recording ClassroomsTips for Students in Lecture Streaming and Recording Classrooms – Approximately 20 classrooms have been equipped with new technology allowing for a form of “live-streaming” class from remote locations in a passive manner. These rooms are also able to record class sessions. See these resources for more information.

Experiential Learning – Hands-on learning experiences and assignments help students to move beyond memorization and conceptual learning toward deep learning – the process of fusing this earlier type of learning with real-world situations. Although the evidence on learning styles of types of learning is not uncontested, it is apparent that “practicing” skills and concepts can help us to move toward mastery.