Class Management

March 8, 2023

When Students Don’t Answer Questions in Class

Reading Time: 6 minutes Ideas for reasons why students aren’t answering your questions in class and suggestions for ways to address them.

Class Management/Teaching

October 25, 2022

Getting Students to Participate in Breakout Rooms

Reading Time: 7 minutes “[B]reakout rooms do not always magically create engagement and higher levels of learning.” (Saltz & Heckman, 2020, para. 16) Breakout groups are used as a discussion...

Active Learning and Engagement/Class Management/Group Work/Online Synchronous/Teaching

July 14, 2022

Pathway – Group Work as an Effective Learning and Assessment Experience

Reading Time: < 1 minute View this video introduction to the learning path to better understand some best practices for setting up group assignments, guiding groups, and marking group work....

Active Learning and Engagement/Class Management/Group Work/Modes of Delivery/New Faculty/Teaching

May 25, 2022

Asking Effective Questions

Reading Time: 6 minutes You may want to ask questions of your class during lessons in order to: This post provides some ideas and examples for how to form...

Active Learning and Engagement/Class Management

May 25, 2022

Oral Presentation No-Shows

Reading Time: 3 minutes By Elan Paulson and Kathryn Brillinger This tip provides some information about how to plan for and manage absences during in-class individual and group oral...

Class Management/Group Work/Teaching

March 26, 2022

Students Talking in an In-Person Class

Reading Time: 5 minutes This teaching tip offers strategies for addressing students “side talking” in an in-person class in a kind, respectful way. It also describes ideas for structured and unstructured talk time in class.

Active Learning and Engagement/Class Management/In-person/Teaching

March 25, 2022

Help Students Complete Non-Graded Asynchronous Activities

Reading Time: 5 minutes Encourage students to complete course activities that are not graded.

Active Learning and Engagement/Class Management/Hybrid/Online Asynchronous/Teaching

February 14, 2018

Preventing Classroom Management Challenges

Reading Time: 7 minutes How do expert teachers handle classroom management? The research into expertise in teaching shows that expert teachers do not behave like experts in high-risk professions (e.g., paramedics,...