Teaching at Scale will include an in-person workshop, webinars, online guides, video interviews, and other resources. Rather than briefly addressing a range of needs in a single workshop or guide, this series allows us to more effectively support class prep, participation, grading, and teaching larger classes across modalities.
The series also offers multiple entry points and greater flexibility to engage with what you need most.
Join Nancy Chick (Executive Director of Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship) for this workshop on engaging students in face-to-face classes** of 60 or more students. When in-person classes cross this enrollment threshold, taking attendance, learning names, and facilitating meaningful participation can seem exponentially more challenging. This workshop will help you develop strategies for planning and managing these activities.
Even if you’re not planning to teach a larger course, the series will offer ideas that can help make everyday teaching more intentional and sustainable.
* Dallas and Houston faculty may join via Zoom.
** See below for other parts of this series that support virtual classes and online engagement.
Will be posted March 23
This guide addresses how to create a welcoming environment in large classes, manage workloads in large classes, incorporate effective lecturing practices into your teaching, and effectively assess student work in large classes. Read the guide here.
Recording will be posted March 30
It’s easy to fall into "the teaching trap" of overpreparing for classes, spending countless hours developing extensive lectures, activities, and materials that consume. In this webinar, you'll learn about preparing an entire week's classes in one afternoon while maintaining engaging variety for students, efficient grading strategies, customizable class templates, time-saving grading systems, and concrete boundaries for course preparation that protect your time while actually improving your teaching effectiveness and student satisfaction scores.
April 9 @ noon on Zoom (Register)
Teaching a large class doesn’t have to mean sacrificing meaningful interaction or drowning in administrative tasks. In this session, faculty will learn practical strategies to streamline course navigation, reduce grading time, and foster community—even in high‑enrollment courses.
This session highlights best practices for structuring modules, managing announcements, organizing assessments, leveraging groups and discussions, and designing materials for clarity and accessibility. Participants will walk away with concrete, easy‑to‑implement approaches that support student success while making large‑class teaching more efficient and sustainable.
April 23 @ noon on Zoom (Register)
AI-Assisted Workflows (Ethical + Practical), helps you accelerate routine teaching tasks; drafting rubics, generating question banks, writing comment banks, creating practice scenarios
Coming in April
Coming in April
Coming in April