Responding to Difficult Moments
These CRLT resources provide strategies for anticipating and responding to difficult discussions as well as classroom incivility:
- Guidelines for planning and facilitating discussions on difficult or controversial topics
- Responding to incidents of hate speech
- Teaching and learning in a tense election season
- Strategies for making productive use of tense or difficult moments
- Facilitating Challenging Conversations in your Classes (blog post)
- Sample guidelines for class participation
- Guidelines for responding to particular topics and tragedies
- Responding to Incivility in the College Classroom
Additional resources from around the web:
- "Managing Hot Moments in the Classroom" (Harvard University)
- Creating a safe and engaging classroom climate (University of Wisconsin)
- Difficult Dialogues (Vanderbilt University)
