Teaching around the election

As we approach the upcoming 2020 Election, CTE has curated a list of resources with strategies to help students through this potential disruptive time. These online resources* include pedagogical strategies that facilitate student expression, while also increasing inclusivity in the classroom.

• Georgetown’s Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship Teaching Around the Election: Space for Student Expression offers a list of pedagogical principles and strategies to facilitate student discussion about the election

• University of Michigan CRLT's Preparing to Teach about the 2020 Election (and After) offers a list of strategies and resources for instructors to facilitate conversations about the election

• Harvard’s Teaching & Learning Lab prepared a guide on Teaching in Times of Strife and Trauma that offers a large collection of resources for instructors and others working with college students

• If you’re not currently teaching, you might be interested in exploring Tufts’ Institute for Democracy & Higher Education’s report, Election Imperatives 2020: A Time of Physical Distancing and Social Action, that addresses higher education administrators and student services staff in particular, with a goal of providing research-driven recommendations to increase student voting and change campus climates to improve equitable political learning, discussion, and participation in democracy

• Debra Mashek’s article, Avoiding Postelection Student Unrest, outlines a student workshop plan that could be adapted for use in the classroom

• Vanderbilt’s Center for Teaching offered this article just after the 2016 election that focuses on navigating difficult conversations in the classroom

• New York Times series, Teach and Learn With the 2020 Election, offers writing & reading resources for teachers; the focus is more for upper secondary-level students but some would be adaptable for use in higher education classrooms

• POD Network for faculty developers compiled this list of resources to help faculty navigate post-2016 election

If you have any additional resources that can be added to this list, please contact us at cte@smu.edu.