Cultivating Relationships in Large-Enrollment Courses

A brief video and accompanying resources describe relationship-rich education, its benefits, and approaches to make classrooms into relationship-rich spaces.

An experienced instructor shifts to large-enrollment teaching and records her lessons learned. This reflective piece shares practical advice for teaching 300+ students with appropriate attention to instructional context. Spoiler: it involves relationships.

This website offers quick, scalable activities that can help build relationships by increasing student interactions at three levels: student-to-student, student-to-instructor, and student-to-content.

This short list of recommendations focuses on the structural or planned ways that we can demonstrate care in large enrollment (e.g., through design and communication) and help students see us instructors as humans early on.

This webpage gives practical advice for coordinating your teaching team, especially Teaching Assistants. It includes suggestions for fostering communication, clear expectations, and mentoring.