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Featured Guide

Choosing and Using Classroom Space

Choosing a classroom space that fits the nature of the class can make a big difference in setting the right tone for the class and the interactions that happen there.

Featured Story

Engaging Public Policy on Wikipedia

Rochelle Davis' Public Policy students each took on the improvement of one Wikipedia article—with rewarding results.

From the Glossary

Clickers

Clickers are handheld tools for real-time polling in the classroom.

• From Rodney Collins:

  “It was critical to be able to move through the basics of geography while also exploring these deeper conceptual domains.”

• From Charles King:

  “It’s really important for me to have students not just learn some theory, but really to be political scientists or historians.”

1. Teaching Handbook

   Addressing the university course from principle to practice, this Teaching Handbook explores practical issues in pedagogy. Each interactive section features further reading, definitions, and tips throughout the text.

2. Faculty Stories

   What are some of the most exciting instructional practices happening in Georgetown classrooms? Explore stories of faculty revitalizing their classrooms with effective experiments in teaching and learning.

3. Teaching Resources

   Looking for useful articles to read, rubrics to repurpose, or video of a recent lecture on teaching? Check out our growing collection of resources selected to support best practices in teaching.

4. Glossary

   Delve into key teaching terms with our Teaching Glossary. Each term is defined with curated excerpts from teaching and learning sources across the web and includes a list of Georgetown links to see the term in action.