Start the Semester Right

Here is a shortlist of readings and resources focused on first-day practices:

• The First Day of Class: Advice and Ideas Community College of Rhode Island

• First Day of Class. University of Connecticut

• First Day of Class: Introduction Activities (Icebreakers). Western Michigan University. 

• How to Teach a Good First Day of Class by James Lang. Chronicle for Higher Education. Also reprinted at Northern Illinois University. 

• The First Day of Class: Setting the Tone. Harvard University.

• The First Day of Class. Dartmouth

• Tips for Faculty Teaching for the First Time, Washington University in St. Louis.

• The First Day of Class, Cornell

• Teaching Tip: A More Strategic Syllabus Day by  Ashley Mowreader at Inside Higher Education. 

• Surviving Your First Day of Class. University of Waterloo. 

Connected Questions to Support Your Inquiry

•  What might you try to help you help your students get better connect with your course - and have clearer expectations so they are set up for success? How might you personalize your D2L shells to create warmth and build connectivity? 

• How can you build the warm and safe sense of community that is necessary for supporting collaborative inquiry?

• What are Pima Students already saying they want more of in courses that you might address from day one?