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.
- Academic Integrity
- Accommodating Student Athletes In the Classroom
- Active Learning
- An Introduction to Lecturing
- Beyond the Essay: Making Student Thinking Visible in the Humanities
- Blended and Online Learning
- Bloom’s Taxonomy
- Case Studies
- Cheating & Plagiarism
- Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs)
- Classroom Response Systems (“Clickers”)
- Cooperative Learning
- Dealing with the unexpected: Teaching when you or your students can’t make it to class
- Difficult Dialogues
- Digital Textbooks: Working with publisher-provided online platforms
- Digital Timelines
- Discussions
- Effective Educational Videos
- Feminist Pedagogy
- First Day of Class
- Flipping the Classroom
- Gathering Feedback from Students
- Grading Student Work
- Graduate Education
- Group work: Using cooperative learning groups effectively
- How People Learn
- Incorporating Research into Science Courses
- Increasing Inclusivity in the Classroom
- International Teaching Assistants Guide
- Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT)
- Keeping Stress from Evolving into Distress: A Guide on Managing Student Stress through Course Design
- Learning and Course Management Systems (LMS/CMS)
- Learning Spaces
- Learning Styles
- Leveraging Travel Abroad: Collecting and Teaching with Authentic Resources
- Making Better PowerPoint Presentations
- Mentoring Graduate Students
- Metacognition
- Mindfulness in the Classroom
- Motivating Students
- Office Hours and E-mail
- One-on-One Teaching & Independent Studies
- Pedagogy for Professional Schools and Students
- Peer Review of Teaching
- Podcasting
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
- Service Learning & Community Engagement
- Service Learning Challenges & Opportunities
- Service Learning Step by Step
- Student Evaluations
- Supervisors of Teaching Assistants
- Syllabus Design
- Teaching Adult Undergraduate Students
- Teaching Assistants
- Teaching Beyond the Gender Binary in the University Classroom
- Teaching First-Generation College Students
- Teaching First-Year Students
- Teaching in Times of Crisis
- Teaching Laboratory Classes
- Teaching Large Classes
- Teaching Outside the Classroom
- Teaching Portfolios
- Teaching Problem Solving
- Teaching Statements
- Teaching Statistics
- Teaching Students with Disabilities
- Teaching Sustainability
- Teaching with Blogs
- Teaching Vanderbilt Undergraduates
- Team-based learning
- Test-enhanced learning: Using retrieval practice to help students learn
- Understanding by Design
- Visual Learning
- Wikis
- Wireless in the Classroom
- Writing Good Multiple Choice Test Questions
Articles and Essays
Teaching Forum Newsletter Articles
Between 1998 and 2003 the CFT published a newsletter called Teaching Forum which printed articles about a variety of teaching topics as well as notices of CFT news and events. Back issues ofTeaching Forum are available online at the link above and in the library.
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.