Teaching Resources

Please contact Steve Threadgold for the teaching support resources at steven.threadgold@newcastle.edu.au:

  • discussion questions,
  • multiple choice questions to build quizzes,
  • lecture slide templates,
  • suggestions for pop culture to use as examples for discussion,
  • pedagogical exercises

Honour Your Students’ Heritage by Pronouncing Their Names Correctly

Teaching with respect for gender and sexuality

A resources for cultivating an inclusive classroom.

TransHub

Inclusive educators guide from TransHub.

A Climate Change module for teaching Introductory Sociology

Most courses go for at least 12 weeks and there is only 10 chapters in our book, so climate change would be a good topic to do a whole week on to discuss sociological concepts.

Getting students to ‘do’ introductory sociology: Analysis of a blended and flipped interactive workshop model

Excellent article on the ‘pedagogical enrichment in sociology’.

Up to 80% of uni students don’t read their assigned readings. Here are 6 helpful tips for teachers

Some tips on getting students to engage with course readings

We Aren’t Here to Learn What We Already Know

Kyla Wazana Tomkins on with some suggestion about teaching theory and getting students to ask questions: “I tell my students: theory is both descriptive of the world we live in and speculative as well, in that it seeks new worlds and new language to understand what seems to be “natural” and “normal.” If the ideas that theory wants to express were easy to say, they would not need to be said. The work of undoing what you know, or what you think you know, is hard. You’re going to have to work hard. We aren’t here to learn what we already know.“

PLAGIARISM INFOGRAPHIC

Handy guide for helping students understand their responsibilities