Creating Classroom Community

How can you build the warm and safe sense of community that is necessary for supporting collaborative inquiry?  To examine this question, here is a shortlist of readings and resources on creating community and promoting student belonging:

• Community Building in the Classroom. Columbia Center for Teaching & Learning

• Community Building in the Community College Classroom. by Sean Garrity.  Inside Higher Education

• Building Community. Center for Teaching & Learning. Western University.

• Building a Sense of Community in Online Courses. Higher Ed Jobs

For other connected practices, see our page on Starting the Semester right.  To learn more about online teaching practices in particular, consider enrolling in TEACH 125 V3 which includes a focus on how to start the semester right, how to get to know your students, and how to create community in online classrooms.