Large Classes

Preparing to Teach the Large Lecture Course offers a selection of researched supported strategies on the following topics: organizing the course, structuring a lecture, preparing lecture notes, and managing a large lecture course. A sample lecture outline is also provided.

Teaching Large Classes draws upon the work of Allan Gedalof's book by the same title, offering best practices, tips, strategies, presenetation techniques, PowerPoint suggestions, and much more.

Teaching Large Class Sections
Provides teaching tips on commonly asked questions, including: attendance, student involvement, student work, academic dishonesty and collecting feedback.

Large Class FAQs
Penn State faculty share how they deal with a variety of teaching issues (e.g., writing, assignments, technology, course planning) in large class settings.

Large Classes: Teaching Guide and Newsletter
The University of Maryland offers two resources to support faculty who teach large classes - a newsletter (specfically on teaching large classes) and a handbook. Both provide a variety of ideas and tips to teach large classes actively and effectively.

Clicking with Large Classes: One Professor's Experience
Karen Kelsky, a professor of anthropology, shares her experience of teaching a large classs (350 students) for the first time, and the efforts she made to maintain a sense of connectedness found with her regular-sized classes (with classes of 30 or 40 students).

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