Class outside Kauke Hall in early Spring. Photo Credit: Matt Dilyard
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Advance Planning
- How to Create a Syllabus: Advice Guide (Kevin Gannon, @TheTattooedProf, Chronicle of Higher Ed)
- Designing an Accessible Syllabus to Promote Student Engagement and Agency by Anne-Marie Womack
- Anne-Marie Womack’s Accessible Syllabus (see more of the resources that the creator, Anne-Marie Womack, shared with us when she presented to Wooster Faculty in 2020)
- Academic Currency: How Tokens Took (Some) Anxiety Out of Late Work by (our very own) Shelley Judge, Mazvita M. Chilkomo, and Justine Paul Berina (GLCA-GLAA Consortium for Teaching and Learning, February 3, 2022
- Here’s How to Make Your Teaching More Inclusive: Advice Guide (Viji Sathy and Kelly A. Hogan, Chronicle of Higher Ed)
- How to Make Smart Choices About Tech for Your Course: Advice Guide (Michelle D. Miller, Chronicle of Higher Ed)
The First Day
- How to Teach a Good First Day of Class by James M. Lang (Chronicle of Higher Ed, January 4, 2019)
- What to do on the First Day of Class (Berkeley Center for Teaching & Learning)
More on Inclusion & Accessibility
- How to Teach Your (Many) Neurodivergent Students (Katie Rose Guest Prayal, Chronicle of Higher Ed, March 29, 2023)
- Academe Has a Lot to Learn About How Inclusive Teaching Affects Instructors (Chavella Pittman and Thomas J. Tobin, Chronicle of Higher Education, February 7, 2022): Advocates ask teachers to cede authority to students. But what if you are a faculty member of color or an adjunct without much acknowledge authority to share?
- #AccessIsLove, a community resource for better understanding access as a concept and practical intervention for learning and meeting spaces.
- Lydia X. Z. Brown’s Laboring for Disability Justice & Liberation – Their resources tab is especially helpful, with a lot of their online publications on language, terminology, and thinking about disability, race, gender, and sexuality.
- Is Your Math Course Racist? Regardless of how quantitative their disciplines are, STEM faculty members also need to care about the science of inclusive pedagogy by José Antonio Bowen (Inside Higher Ed, 2021).
- “Saying the Wrong Thing”: Experiences of Teaching Race in the Classroom by Rima Vesely-Flad (Religious Studies News 2018)
Engagement
- This Fall, Aim for Engagement by (our very own) Matt Mariola & Ryan Ozar (Liberal Education, July 22, 2021)
- How to Make Your Teaching More Engaging: Advice Guide (Sarah Rose Cavanagh, Chronicle of Higher Ed)
- How to Hold a Better Discussion: Advice Guide (Jay Howard, Chronicle of Higher E
- 2 Ways to Fairly Grade Class Participation (James Lang, Chronicle of Higher Ed)
Additional Resources
- Course Workload Estimator (Rice University) Thinking through student workload? This handy tool will help.