The resources below are available to be used without restriction in order to help anyone who would like improve their teaching or consider new perspectives on teaching and learning. My only request is that if you use any of these resources beyond your own classrooms that you cite and give appropriate credit. Please share and edit as widely as you would like. 

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Participation Self-Assessment Resources: 

Below you will find the links to the google forms I use to implement my participation self-assessment system described in my Reconceptualizing Participation Grading article (link and PDF above). The links include the initial participation goals, the midterm check in, and the final participation reflection. I recommend that you adjust the participation categories and descriptions as relevant to your own course and goals. 

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Links: 

• Participation Goals Form

• Midterm Participation Check In Form

• Participation Final Reflection Form

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Role-Playing Activities: 

I have published two TRAILS activities and one Teaching Sociology article about some of my role-playing activities. The TS article provides a great overview of what role-playing activities are and why they can be helpful in the classroom. Namely, they help students explore the interplay of structure and agency in different settings (in my example activities this includes role-playing as parents to choose a school for their child, role-playing as various community members in a fictitious school board debate, and role-playing as job seekers or employers). Additionally, by providing students an opportunity to have fun while learning, they are more likely to be receptive to learning the relevant concepts after the activity is complete and remember them for a longer time period.

 

Role-playing activities are also advantageous in that they allow course discussions about "personal" experiences of privilege and oppression but from the perspective of their character, rather than their real lives, making these kinds of activities more inclusive of students who have faced oppression because they will not be obligated to share their trauma with the class (unlike activities that center exclusively on student past experiences such as privilege walks). 

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All resources you need to examine and implement the TRAILS activities are available from the teaching publications section above, using either the link (if ASA member) or the PDF (if not a member). The social network activity is described in the TS (link and PDF above) but the actual handouts and resources needed to implement it are below. Note that you just adjust the activity based on class size. I have two formats of the activity below, one for a small class and one for a medium class. I recommend having a few extra roles that are non-essential to the activity to have available in case more students show up for class than is typical for your daily attendance. 

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Links to resources to complete the Social Networks Activity: 

• General instructions for students

• Role-specific instruction handout: 15 students or 42 students 

• Social network visualization: 15 students or 42 students 

• Overview of all roles for instructor: 15 students or 42 students 

• Powerpoint slides to use during class activity day: 15 students or 42 students 

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*Note: the 42 student course was my sociology of education course that completed this activity while reading the book Paying for the Party and so the slides explicitly draw on the book. For a more general version of the lesson plan, rely on the content in the 15 student course which was a summer section of my introduction to sociology course that had no prior reading or associated knowledge.

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