Many faculty and students are happy to return to in-person classrooms, sharing the immediate learning environment and enriching it with props, tools, and our own physical presence. However, teaching face-to-face in COVID times also comes with challenges. How do we communicate clearly through masks? How do we adapt pre-COVID activities that require getting into each other’s physical space? How can we bring some community-building and engaging elements of the online classroom, such as the chat function and polling tools, into our in-person classrooms?

For Bring Your Best Idea sessions, we (locally) crowdsource answers to questions such as these. Please bring your best ideas for teaching in person during COVID to this lively, collaborative, and fast-paced sharing session. At the beginning of the session, participants will have the opportunity to reflect on the theme and write a brief description of a problem or a strategy related to the theme. Anyone who has an idea to share with the whole group will have two minutes to describe it. No slides please, though a link to a handout is welcome. After 20-30 minutes of sharing ideas, we’ll shift to Q&A and discussion. Whether or not you bring an idea to share, you’ll leave this session with new food for thought and several new ideas you might try in your own course.

√ Counts toward the ALIT Certificate
§ Counts toward the INNOVATE Certificate

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