Guides

The CFT has prepared guides to a variety of teaching topics with summaries of best practices, links to other online resources, and information about local Vanderbilt resources.

1. Academic Integrity: Grappling with Cheating and Plagiarism
2. Accommodating Student Athletes In the Classroom
3. Active Learning
4. Active Learning Classrooms
5. An Introduction to Lecturing
6. Assessing Student Learning
7. Beyond the Essay: Making Student Thinking Visible in the Humanities
8. Blended and Online Learning
9. Bloom’s Taxonomy
10. Case Studies
11. Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs)
12. Classroom Response Systems (“Clickers”)
13. Creating Accessible Learning Environments
14. Dealing with the unexpected: Teaching when you or your students can’t make it to class
15. Developing and Writing a Diversity Statement
16. Difficult Dialogues
17. Digital labs and simulations
18. Digital Textbooks: Working with publisher-provided online platforms
19. Digital Timelines
20. Discussions
21. Effective Educational Videos
22. Feminist Pedagogy
23. First Day of Class
24. Flipping the Classroom
25. Giving Exams Online: Strategies and Tools
26. Grading Student Work
27. Graduate Education
28. Group work: Using cooperative learning groups effectively
29. How People Learn
30. Increasing Inclusivity in the Classroom
31. International Instructor Guide
32. Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT)
33. Keeping Stress from Evolving into Distress: A Guide on Managing Student Stress through Course Design
34. Learning and Course Management Systems (LMS/CMS)
35. Learning Styles
36. Leveraging Travel Abroad: Collecting and Teaching with Authentic Resources
37. Making Better PowerPoint Presentations
38. Mentoring Graduate Students
39. Metacognition
40. Mindfulness in the Classroom
41. Motivating Students
42. Office Hours and E-mail
43. One-on-One Teaching & Independent Studies
44. Online Course Development Resources (CDR)
    • CDR Module 1: Course Design
    • CDR Module 2: Teaching Online
    • CDR Module 3: Ongoing Development
45. Pedagogy for Professional Schools and Students
46. Peer Review of Teaching
47. Personal Devices in the Classroom
48. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
49. Self-compassionate Teaching: Putting on your Oxygen Mask First
50. Service Learning & Community Engagement
51. Service Learning Challenges & Opportunities
52. Service Learning Step by Step
53. Soliciting and Utilizing Mid-Semester Feedback
54. Supervisors of Teaching Assistants
55. Syllabus Design
56. Teaching Adult Undergraduate Students
57. Teaching Assistants
58. Teaching Beyond the Gender Binary in the University Classroom
59. Teaching First-Generation College Students
60. Teaching First-Year Students
61. Teaching in the Age of AI
62. Teaching in Times of Crisis
63. Teaching International Students
64. Teaching Laboratory Classes
65. Teaching Large Classes
66. Teaching Outside the Classroom
67. Teaching Portfolios
68. Teaching Problem Solving
69. Teaching Race: Pedagogy and Practice
70. Teaching Statements
71. Teaching Sustainability
72. Teaching with Blogs
73. Team-based learning
74. Test-enhanced learning: Using retrieval practice to help students learn
75. Understanding by Design
76. Visual Thinking
77. Wikis
78. Writing Good Multiple Choice Test Questions
79. Writing Higher Order Multiple Choice Questions
80. Writing Science Exams

Articles and Essays

Essays on Teaching Excellence

The Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network is the professional organization to which teaching centers such as the CFT belong. POD publishes several “Essays on Teaching Excellence” each semester, and these are available at the link above. Note that you must have a VUNet ID and password to view these articles.