Resources

Teaching Larger Classes Resources
@http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WPVWDkF7U8
 * An Interesting Video on a Professor's Twitter Experience in a large class***

[|http//www.uww.edu/learn/largeclasses.php] You can’t get any more succinct than this! The University of Wisconsin LEARN Center has compiled a list of 78 single sentence tips for teaching large classes organized by topic.
 * 78 Strategies for Teaching Large Classes (University of Wisconsin)**

[] The University of North Carolina Center for Teaching & Learning has organized their large class resource page around a series of frequently asked question related to the challenges of teaching large classes, such as “how can I encourage attendance?” and “how can I use technology in a large class?”.
 * A Survival Handbook for Teaching Large Classes (University of North Carolina)**

[] Felder’s page is a short document full of rich ideas for encouraging interactivity and active learning in large classes.
 * Beating the Numbers Game: Effective Teaching in Large Classes (Richard Felder)**

This tip sheet from the Idea Center provides some excellent ideas and strategies for encouraging students to do the assigned readings.
 * Getting Students to Read: Fourteen Tips**
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[] This practical document provides useful tips for classroom management and maintaining civility in large classes.
 * Large Classes: Limiting the Chaos (University of Waterloo)**

[] A series of PDFs produced by the Schreyer Centre for Teaching Excellence on a range of topics related to frequently experienced challenges and active learning techniques for large classes.
 * Large Class Resources (Penn State University)**

**List of Books about Teaching Larger Classes**

Available from the WLU Library in hardcopy and electronic form, the book is a "must have" guide for addressing issues, challenges, opportunities etc. associated with teaching, managing the course, assessment, lesson/course design, instructional strategies, classroom incivility and more.
 * Teaching At Its Best** (3rd edition) by Linda Nilson