Graduate school is a time when students choose to engage in topics they enjoy or are at least intrigued about learning. This commitment often comes with managing busy work, academic, and personal lives. When you add the uncertainty of an ongoing pandemic, building relationships and trust with students is paramount to successful teaching and learning.
Read this article on ways to engage community in your classroom. Authors Juli S. Charkes and Mitch Fried, of the Center for Learning and Teaching at Mercy College, present tips you can use in your course on how to build relationships and trust with students. MSHE students’ schedules are full, so engaging with them as they commit to courses is crucial for their success.
Consider the article’s tips:
- Cultivate instructor presence
- Build trust
- Assign group work with oversight
- Be sensitive to cultural differences
- Survey early and survey often
Read more details of this tips in the article here. If you are curious about how to apply any or all of these tips to your course, contact Chris Neary at christopher.neary@northwestern.edu.
Image is used from Charkes, J.S., & Fried, M. (2021, July 30). Teaching with care: Why community is at the heart of successful pedagogy. Faculty Focus. Retrieved from https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/equality-inclusion-and-diversity/teaching-with-care-why-community-is-at-the-heart-of-successful-pedagogy/