Most Recent Collections
We regularly add new collections to Teaching Hub. This gallery highlights the newest from both established and first-time curators.
Collections
Dialogue & Deliberation Across Differences
The ability to have productive and respectful discourse with folks holding different values, identities, and opinions is critical for a functioning democracy, but challenging to foster. This collection supports instructors preparing students to engage across differences.
Essentials for Collaborative Learning Groups
Whether you're organizing informal in-class groups or assigning out-of-class group projects, it takes care to make group work run well. This collection features our favorite resources for supporting students through sustained collaboration in persistent or ephemeral learning groups.
Practice and Theory of Relationship-rich Pedagogies
When people talk about relational pedagogy and relationship-rich academic practice, what do they mean, and what are the practical implications? Use this collection to orient yourself to the contemporary conversation about relationship-rich academic environments.
Resurrecting the Essay
Shortly after OpenAI released ChatGPT to the public, Stephen Marche rang the death knell for the college essay. Is the essay as a genre actually dead, and if so, what will we, as instructors, create in its aftermath? This collection explores possible ways to revive and reimagine the essay for the 21st-century classroom.
Making the Most of Synchronous Online Teaching
The resources here explore strategies for engaging students in discussion and active learning in a synchronous online class session. Topics include preparing students for live sessions, facilitating in inclusive and accessible ways, and situating a synchronous session in a bigger course design.
Specifications Grading: Benefits and Practices
Are you tired of spending time with students who argue for fractions of points? Do you get frustrated spending your marking time on work that's not even close to what you want? Do you want a more equitable grading approach, maybe one that actually measures student learning outcomes? Specifications grading does that, and more. The resources in this collection include examples of specs grading in practice and reflections by practitioners.
Setting Boundaries for AI Use Through Syllabus Statements
Students appreciate clear guidance on which uses of generative AI are permitted in coursework, if any, and which are prohibited. The syllabus statements in this collection are examples that instructors can use as they set and communicate boundaries for student AI use that align with their course goals and teaching values.
Unconventional Syllabi
Can a syllabus do more than convey policies and schedules? This collection includes our favorite examples of syllabi that embrace creative, fun, or otherwise unconventional interpretations of the syllabus genre while still fulfilling the basic roles of syllabi. It ends with advice and commentary about adding visual (and other) elements to your syllabus.
Specifications Grading Example Grading Schemes
These annotated examples of specifications grading schemes can serve as models for your own design. Taken together, the examples illustrate the variety of approaches and emphases that are possible within specs grading.
Syllabus Statements on Student Wellbeing
A syllabus is often a student’s first impression of a course and its instructor. This collection highlights examples of syllabi that establish a tone of care, inclusion, and concern for student wellbeing from the outset. It also includes a blog post exploring the impact of syllabus language and a template designed to help instructors get started creating their own student-centered syllabus.
