Teaching at Evergreen
All faculty are encouraged to enroll in the Teaching at Evergreen canvas course, which hosts a wide array of resources and communications curated by the Commons. The Canvas shell is updated continuously and regularly, as more resources become available or new areas of support are discovered. If you have any content suggestions, please email the Commons.
Learning and Teaching Guides
The Washington Center for Improving Undergraduate Education hosts several learning and teaching guides to support effective and inclusive practice.
Election Resources
- Civic Engagement Events at Evergreen — Non-partisan events under the theme Democracy: Local to Global focusing on how students can engage with the democratic process at multiple levels
- Navigating Conflict in Classrooms | General Advice from the Academic Deans — Tips and resources from Evergreen’s Deans, updated for the 2024-2025 Academic Year
- Taking a Trauma-responsive Approach to Community Care — Guide based on eight principles of trauma-informed teaching with links to additional resources
- Thinking about What Democracy’s Winners and Losers Owe One Another (Beyond Intractability, July 22, 2024 newsletter) — a thought/discussion exercise that invites participants to explore opposing viewpoints through an appreciative lens
- Sustained Dialogue Institute | Fall Semester Resources for Educators — curated resources and information about an on-demand “helpdesk” for educators
- Inquiry and Discourse Toolkit — guide from Georgetown’s Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship that provides tools for preparing for, facilitating, and reflecting on classroom inquiry and discussion
- UC Davis Dialogues Across Difference | Academic Freedom and Free Speech in the Classroom — 13 minute video overview of law and policies relevant to free speech in the classroom. View Evergreen’s policy documents on academic freedom.
- Election Resources | Sharon Salzberg — Contemplative resources, including a three-part webinar series, podcast episode, and guided meditation
- Managing Hot Moments in the Classroom — Simple protocol for responding to conflict and negative reactions in the classroom
Other Resources
- A series of Inclusive Teaching Tips published in the Learning and Teaching Commons Newsletter, offer simple, equitable teaching practices.
- All Learners Welcome: Resources for Designing Inclusive Learning Experiences provides a growing curation of internet resources, readings, and people that can support designing inclusive learning experiences. The Inclusion by Design – Syllabus Tool is a great place to start.
- Creative Syllabus Design offers some interesting examples and resources to think about ways to make syllabi more useable and visually appealing.
- Julia’s “Go-To” guide for using and creating rubrics is a good place to start when you are thinking about designing or adapting a rubric. Check out the single-point rubric – it might change your life!
- Developing Community Agreements – Two simple exercises to develop community agreements in your program or course.
- The Team Teaching Checklist shares some ideas about how to successfully team teach at Evergreen, developed by the participants of the summer institute: “Improving Team Teaching Through Dialogue” led by Miranda Mellis and Shangrila Joshi
- Communities of Inquiry offers guidance and advice for forming faculty communities of inquiry to explore teaching practices.
- Creating Accessible Materials – download these two document for advice on creating accessible Word and Powerpoint documents
- Academic Continuity in Disruptive Times has useful advice for establishing communication strategies with your students, tools to support remote teaching and more.
- Evergreen’s Tribal Land Acknowledgements