Teaching

Macalester faculty are deeply committed to being engaging and effective teachers for all of our students. Many of us are drawn to Macalester’s small liberal arts environment because of the high value placed on teaching and for the opportunity to connect with our students in small classes, studios, research labs, rehearsal spaces, etc., as well as during individual meetings with students. We also serve as students’ academic advisors, and we take that role very seriously (for additional advising advice, check out this summary of a new book on Academic Coaching). The Serie Center offers regular programming that supports faculty to become increasingly reflective about our pedagogical and advising practices, and to share what we are learning with one another.

If you are concerned about a student’s well-being, please complete this form to refer them to the Care Team. If your concern is urgent, call Public Safety at 651-696-6555; Public Safety is directly connected to the student affairs on-call team.

Resources

The links below will take you to sites that offer additional perspective, resources, and recommendations on a number of topics, many of which can help you address “context before content” and center our students’ – and your own – humanity in the work that we do. You might find this continually updated collection of short articles on a wide variety of topics from the National Education Association’s Thriving in Academe series helpful, too. Reminder: if you are concerned about a student’s well-being, please complete this form. 

• Accessible teaching and accommodating disability
• AI literacy and critical thinking
• Anti-racist pedagogy
• Assignment design / Assessment / Grading
• Centering well-being
• Co-teaching / Team teaching
• Course design and syllabus development
• Facilitating effective class discussion
• Open textbooks / Open pedagogy
• Sample syllabus statements and policies
• Toward equitable and inclusive teaching