Teaching in a Transitional Year 2021-2022

2021-2022 will be a unique year in which you take what you’ve learned during the challenges of last year, and apply it to your classrooms and teaching, as we approach a new normal.  We’ve curated these collections of resources to support you as you continue to innovate in your teaching, and expand the impact of new tools and strategies we adopted last year.

ADAPTATION & INNOVATION

We can frame the coming year as one of recovery and growth in which we:

• Reflect on adaptations we made last year
  • Inside Higher Ed: Dead Ideas: Reflections for Post-Pandemic Learning
• Continue with teaching innovations that transformed our classrooms for the better
  • Inside Higher Ed: What Will Remain?
• Build on our expanded teaching toolkits 
  • Tufts CELT: Alternatives to Exams
• Further increase our awareness of the diverse needs of our students, and of existing inequities
  • Tufts CELT: Inclusive Teaching Tips (Big and Small!) From P3’s Student Partners
  • TuftsNow: Teaching Toward Equity: A Pandemic’s Uneven Burden
• Weave anti-racists practices into our teaching
  • Tufts CELT: Words Matter in our Work Against Racism
  • Tufts CELT: Anti-racist Teaching Resources
• Incorporate alternative and more equitable assessments
  • Tufts CELT: Four High Impact Practices for Designing More Equitable Assessments
  • Tufts CELT: Alternatives to Exams
• Educate the whole person and support our students well-being
  • Brocansky-Brock: How & Why to Humanize Your Online Course
  • Tufts Student Life: Supporting Student Health and Wellness
  • Tufts STAAR Center: Supporting Students with Disabilities & Creating an Accessible Syllabus
• Tap into the resilience we cultivated during a time of disruption
  • Chronicle of Higher Ed: What Does Trauma-Informed Teaching Look Like?

The list of resources above is inspired by Randall Bass’s keynote, Disrupting Ourselves: What Can We Make of What We Just Learned? delivered at Tufts University Wide-Teaching Conference, May 2021 

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TOOLS & TECHNIQUES

Here are some resources to support you as you shape your curricula, depending on how your classrooms will look in 2021-22, and what you’d like to accomplish:

• My classroom will be fully in-person, but with tools and skills I used during the pandemic
  • You can use the resources listed above, and on Teaching@Tufts and Educational Technology Services sites
  • Creating an Inclusive Learning Environment
  • Tips for Face-to-Face Teaching with Masks
• My classroom will be a mix of in-person and online, because some of my students and co-instructors may be in remote locations
  • Multi-Modality Classrooms (CELT & ETS)
  • Tips for Multi-Modality or Hybrid Teaching (CELT)
  • Resources for Dual Modality Teaching (CELT)
  • Keep Teaching Resources (ETS)
• Faculty Experience with Hybrid Teaching from 2020-2021
  • Faculty Spotlight on Dual Modality – Rebecca Shakespeare
  • Students in the Room and Students on Zoom: Tufts Faculty Experience Dual Modality Instruction
• Tips Sheets
  • Dual Modality Teaching
  • A Checklist for the Hybrid / Dual Modality Classroom
• My classroom will be fully remote because of student and instructor needs
  • Tufts CELT: Virtual Teaching Tips
  • Tufts ETS: Keep Teaching Resources
  • Tufts ETS: Zoom User Guides
  • Access Tufts: Online and Blended Learning