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 Advising
2. Academic Integrity: Grappling with Cheating and Plagiarism
3. Accommodating Student Athletes In the Classroom
4. Active Learning
5. Active Learning Classrooms
6. An Introduction to Lecturing
7. Assessing Student Learning
8. Beyond the Essay: Making Student Thinking Visible in the Humanities
9. Blended and Online Learning
10. Bloom’s Taxonomy
11. Case Studies
12. Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs)
13. Classroom Response Systems (“Clickers”)
14. Creating Accessible Learning Environments
15. Dealing with the unexpected: Teaching when you or your students can’t make it to class
16. Developing and Writing a Diversity Statement
17. Difficult Dialogues
18. Digital labs and simulations
19. Digital Textbooks: Working with publisher-provided online platforms
20. Digital Timelines
21. Discussions
22. Effective Educational Videos
23. Feminist Pedagogy
24. First Day of Class
25. Flipping the Classroom
26. Giving Exams Online: Strategies and Tools
27. Grading Student Work
28. Graduate Education
29. Group work: Using cooperative learning groups effectively
30. How People Learn
31. Increasing Inclusivity in the Classroom
32. International Instructor Guide
33. Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT)
34. Keeping Stress from Evolving into Distress: A Guide on Managing Student Stress through Course Design
35. Learning and Course Management Systems (LMS/CMS)
36. Learning Styles
37. Leveraging Travel Abroad: Collecting and Teaching with Authentic Resources
38. Making Better PowerPoint Presentations
39. Mentoring Graduate Students
40. Metacognition
41. Mindfulness in the Classroom
42. Motivating Students
43. Office Hours and E-mail
44. One-on-One Teaching & Independent Studies
45. Online Course Development Resources (CDR)
    • CDR Module 1: Course Design
    • CDR Module 2: Teaching Online
    • CDR Module 3: Ongoing Development
46. Pedagogy for Professional Schools and Students
47. Peer Review of Teaching
48. Personal Devices in the Classroom
49. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
50. Self-compassionate Teaching: Putting on your Oxygen Mask First
51. Service Learning & Community Engagement
52. Service Learning Challenges & Opportunities
53. Service Learning Step by Step
54. Soliciting and Utilizing Mid-Semester Feedback
55. Student Evaluations
56. Supervisors of Teaching Assistants
57. Syllabus Design
58. Teaching Adult Undergraduate Students
59. Teaching Assistants
60. Teaching Beyond the Gender Binary in the University Classroom
61. Teaching First-Generation College Students
62. Teaching First-Year Students
63. Teaching in the Age of AI
64. Teaching in Times of Crisis
65. Teaching International Students
66. Teaching Laboratory Classes
67. Teaching Large Classes
68. Teaching Outside the Classroom
69. Teaching Portfolios
70. Teaching Problem Solving
71. Teaching Race: Pedagogy and Practice
72. Teaching Statements
73. Teaching Sustainability
74. Teaching with Blogs
75. Team-based learning
76. Test-enhanced learning: Using retrieval practice to help students learn
77. Understanding by Design
78. Visual Thinking
79. Wikis
80. Writing Good Multiple Choice Test Questions
81. Writing Higher Order Multiple Choice Questions
82. 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.