Teaching Assistants (TAs) are an effective way to manage large classes while ensuring students receive one-on-one support throughout the course. This QRG provides insights into the TA experience, along with practical strategies for faculty to onboard, support, and effectively utilize TAs in their courses.

Think-Pair-Share is an active learning strategy where students think critically about a challenging concept, partner with another student to discuss, and then report out their ideas to the larger group/rest of the class. This QRG includes ideas for implementing this strategy and modifications for hybrid, online, and/or large courses.

UGTAs are successful engineering students that faculty may request to assist with active learning techniques in the in-person or online class. This QRG includes guidelines of the program, qualifications of the students, and how faculty can request UGTAs for a course.

Think-Jot-Pair-Share is an active learning strategy that incorporates writing into the activity. The writing portion (jot), assists learners in capturing their thinking prior to pairing up and sharing with a peer or a group. This QRG includes strategy description, tips based on class modality, implementation suggestions and supporting research.

Small group discussions are an active learning strategy designed to encourage learner discourse and aid in understanding the course content. This QRG includes the description of the strategy, where and when the strategy is most effective, implementation based on class modality, tips, tricks, and supporting research.

Peer reviews are collaborative opportunities for students to work in pairs or small groups to assess the work of their peers and provide quality feedback. This QRG includes planning considerations, implementation ideas, recommendations for creating rubrics, and modality tips.

Peer-led Study Groups (PLSG) are a method of instruction in which small peer groups of students with similar ability converse and try different approaches to solve difficult course-related problems. This QRG provides guidance for the implementation of peer-led study groups into your course as well as research evidence for this teaching method.

Jigsaw is an active learning strategy that has students work in cooperative groups to become experts on one assigned topic before teaching other classmates about their assigned topic. This QRG describes the strategy in detail and provides practical implementation and planning suggestions across class modalities.

Icebreakers are a low-risk, introductory activity designed to encourage students to become active members with the instructor as well as with one another. This QRG includes examples, implementation plans, and ideas for implementing in both in-person and online courses.

Cooperative Learning is a structured form of group work where students work together, but are assessed individually, and their own learning benefits the entire group. This QRG includes an introduction to the elements of Cooperative Learning, considerations and examples for implementing it, and benefits to its use.