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| Teaching Strategies | Class Management | Using Small Groups | Communication | Assessment | UST Supports |
 

Teaching Strategies

These strategies are the results of experience sharing of large class faculty and instructors. Some are tested and evaluated and can be applied immediately to make large class learning effective, productive, and enjoyable.

• Cooperative and Collaborative Learning, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  http://cei.ust.hk/teaching-resources/cooperative-and-collaborative-learning

• Large Classes: A Teaching Guide Collaborative/Cooperative Learning, University of Maryland
  http://www.cte.umd.edu/library/teachingLargeClass/guide/index.html

• Teaching Strategies for Large Class, Center for Research and Learning and Teaching (CRLT), University of Michigan
  http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/tsllc

• 101Things You Can do in the First Three Weeks of Class, Teaching and Learning Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  http://www.unl.edu/gradstudies/current/teaching/first-3-weeks

• Preparing to Teach the Large Lecture Course, Tools for Teaching, University of California, Berkeley
  http://teaching.berkeley.edu/large-lecture-classes

• Active Learning for College Classroom, University of California State University Los Angeles
  http://www.calstatela.edu/dept/chem/chem2/Active/main.htm

• Active Learning, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey
  http://cte.umdnj.edu/active_learning/active_general.cfm

• Team Teaching, University of Western Ontario
  http://www.uwo.ca/tsc/resources/selected_teaching_topics/Team%20Teaching.html

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Class Management

Here are some discussions on how to more effectively manage a class, the strategies of creating appropriate learning atmosphere and building up good faculty-student relationship both inside and outside the lecture room.

• How do I Create an Intimate Climate in Large Class? University of Oregon
  http://tep.uoregon.edu/resources/faqs/managingclimate/intimateclimate.html

• Climate Setting in Cooperative Learning Classroom, Arizona State University
  http://www.hydroville.org/system/files/team_climate.pdf

• Large Class Issues, University of Georgia
  http://www.ctl.uga.edu/teach_asst/large_class.html

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Using Small Groups

Using small group teaching to supplement large class teaching is the practice of a lot of faculty and instructors. Here are some successful stories of applying this technique and recommendations on the logistics and methods of splitting a large group into small ones.

• Team Learning, University of Oregon
  http://tep.uoregon.edu/resources/assessment/teamlearning/teamlearning.html

• Large Classes: A Teaching Guide : Discussion, University of Maryland
  http://www.cte.umd.edu/library/teachingLargeClass/guide/ch6.html

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Communication

How to maintain effective communication both between the faculty and the students and among the students is a major concern in large class teaching in particular. Some suggestions are compiled here.

• Enriching Discussions with Technology, University of Oregon
  http://tep.uoregon.edu/resources/faqs/managingclimate/intimateclimate.html

• Using the Web for Large Class, On-line Learning and Teaching, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  http://cei.ust.hk/teaching-resources/online-learning-teaching

• Teaching Large Classes with Web Technology, Riga Technical Univesity
  http://journal.kolegija.lt/turinys/Agarwal-49-54-%20IITSBE-2008-1(2)-6.pdf

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Assessment

Assessment is regarded as a main concern because of the administrative and logistic complication, as well as techniques of designing appropriate tasks. Here are some suggestions on designing tasks and managing assessments.

• Assessment for Learning, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  http://cei.ust.hk/teaching-resources/assessment-learning

• Teaching with Clickers
  http://cei.ust.hk/teaching-resources/teaching-clickers

• A Briefing on the Assessment of Large Groups, LTSN Generic Centre
  http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/resources/database/id12_Briefing_on_the_Assessment_of_Large_Groups.rtf

• Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs), University of Oregon
  http://tep.uoregon.edu/resources/assessment/cats.html

• Writing Multiple-Choice Questions that Demand Critical Thinking, University of Oregon
  http://tep.uoregon.edu/resources/assessment/multiplechoicequestions/mc4critthink.html

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UST Supports

In UST, you may contact the Center for Enhanced Learning and Teaching for consultation and support; the Library for references and materials; or the Publishing Technology Center for consultation on design, media production and publishing technologies.

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