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Co-Creating the Classroom: Collaborative Ground Rules for Engaged Learning

Faculty Focus

The instructor typically arrives, distributes a syllabus outlining course policies and expectations, explains assignments and grading criteria, and may include a brief activity or icebreaker. It reframes the syllabus not as a fixed legal document, but as a living agreement shaped by both instructor expertise and student input.

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Co-Creating the Classroom: Collaborative Ground Rules for Engaged Learning

Faculty Focus

The instructor typically arrives, distributes a syllabus outlining course policies and expectations, explains assignments and grading criteria, and may include a brief activity or icebreaker. It reframes the syllabus not as a fixed legal document, but as a living agreement shaped by both instructor expertise and student input.

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Coachin’ in the Classroom

Faculty Focus

Students might not be experts at course content, but if we engage them in codesigning a course, they will participate fully as colleagues in the teaching-learning experience. One-page syllabus On the first day of class, we reviewed their answers to the appreciative inquiry and discussed how we could be colleagues in this course.

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Coachin’ in the Classroom

Faculty Focus

Students might not be experts at course content, but if we engage them in codesigning a course, they will participate fully as colleagues in the teaching-learning experience. One-page syllabus On the first day of class, we reviewed their answers to the appreciative inquiry and discussed how we could be colleagues in this course.

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Challenging Implicit Linguistic Biases in Teaching and Learning Across Disciplines Through Student-Faculty Partnerships

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What does the language in the syllabus/assignment assume about students (e.g., Pseudonyms are used to protect participant identities, and general references to disciplinary contexts are provided for confidentiality purposes. Image courtesy of Unsplash. 2024; Montenegro & Jankowski, 2017; Tinto, 2017; Winklemes, 2016).