Pedagogical and Curricular Resource Repository

Pedagogical Resources

Thinking About Your Classroom

SaLT student consultant Sasha Mathrani (HC '18) created this personalized resource based on her observations in POLS B339 and her one-on-one discussions every week with her faculty partner. With a focus on the key thread of "balance", Sasha offers pedagogical facilitation strategies aimed at supporting faculty in leading more open-ended discussions. 

Enacting Whole-Class Co-creation: Faculty and Student Experiences of Sharing Responsibility in Teaching and Learning (Coming Soon)

With a foreword by Catherine Bovill, an introduction that defines co-creation and whole-class co-creation, and a concluding chapter that offers overarching advice for implementation, this is the first book to bring together a wide range of approaches to whole-class co-creation, detailed guidance for scaffolding these practices, and extensive student analyses of their experiences of co-creation. Authored by Alison Cook-Sather and including the contributions of 15 undergraduate students, chapters include:

• Chapter 1: Shifting the Syllabus from Monologue to Dialogue
• Chapter 2: Co-creating the Classroom Learning Environment
• Chapter 3: Scaffolding the Development of Working Definitions of Core Concepts
• Chapter 4: Facilitating Conversations with Practitioners
• Chapter 5: Inviting Contributions to Course Content
• Chapter 6: Engaging in Co-creation of Formative and Summative Assessment

Co-creation Cards (Coming Soon)

Designed by SaLT student consultant Gongyu Yang (BMC '27), this set of co-creation cards draws principles and examples from Enacting Whole-Class Co-Creation: Faculty and Student Experiences of Sharing Responsibility in Teaching and Learning (2026, in press) described above. Among the themes Gongyu highlights are dialogue, uncertainty, trust, revision, and shared meaning-making, and she offers examples of co-creation under the umbrellas of teaching and learning, participation, and classroom life. Each card includes a description of the concept, an example of what it might look like in a course, and a prompt to invite reflection. 

The Teaching of Ethics: Conceptualizations, Practices, Reflections, and Examples

Curricular Resources

Creating and Rethinking Syllabi to Open Learning

This resource page designed for those looking to create and rethink syllabi asks: What would it mean to consider a syllabus as a dialogic document? As a pedagogical and curricular tool for connection? As a vehicle for belonging and mattering? 

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Pedagogical Partnership Program Resources

Pedagogical Partnerships: A How-to Guide for Faculty, Students, and Academic Developers in Higher Education

 

 

 

Co-authored by Alison Cook-Sather, director of the SaLT program and two former SaLT student consultants, this comprehensive Open Access resource provides detailed guidelines for conceptualizing and launching a pedagogical partnership program. While the text provides narrative discussion, the most specific guidance can be found in the stand-alone resources section of the book's webpage.

 

 

 

 

Hiring Experienced Student Consultants to Launch Pedagogical Partnership Programs

Launching pedagogical partnership programs takes time, resources, and expertise. One affordable and effective way to make the most of all of these is to employ an experienced student consultant to conceptualize, facilitate, co-create, or otherwise support the development of a pedagogical partnership program. This resource, created by SaLT director Alison Cook-Sather, provides an overview of and references for publications about two models: a Post-Baccalaureate (Post-Bac) Fellow and a Pre-Baccalaureate (Post-Bac) Fellow. 

Considerations and Recommendations for Classroom-based Pedagogical Partnerships

While there are many components of classroom-focused pedagogical partnership work to consider, one of the most important is how to support student partners in their emotionally and intellectually demanding role. This resource, developed by SaLT director Alison Cook-Sather and two former SaLT student consultants, has five parts:

• Part 1: Contexts of Facilitation: Programmatic, Institutional, and National Influences on Program Design
• Part 2: Structures for Facilitation: Courses, Pay, and Scholarships
• Part 3: Purposes and Models of Facilitation: Individual and Co-facilitation Approaches
• Part 4: Facilitation Strategies
• Part 5: Facilitation Challenges