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. Grading Student Work
26. Graduate Education
27. Group work: Using cooperative learning groups effectively
28. How People Learn
29. Increasing Inclusivity in the Classroom
30. International Teaching Assistants Guide
31. Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT)
32. Keeping Stress from Evolving into Distress: A Guide on Managing Student Stress through Course Design
33. Learning and Course Management Systems (LMS/CMS)
34. Learning Styles
35. Leveraging Travel Abroad: Collecting and Teaching with Authentic Resources
36. Making Better PowerPoint Presentations
37. Mentoring Graduate Students
38. Metacognition
39. Mindfulness in the Classroom
40. Motivating Students
41. Office Hours and E-mail
42. One-on-One Teaching & Independent Studies
43. Pedagogy for Professional Schools and Students
44. Peer Review of Teaching
45. Podcasting
46. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
47. Service Learning & Community Engagement
48. Service Learning Challenges & Opportunities
49. Service Learning Step by Step
50. Soliciting and Utilizing Mid-Semester Feedback
51. Student Evaluations
52. Supervisors of Teaching Assistants
53. Syllabus Design
54. Teaching Adult Undergraduate Students
55. Teaching Assistants
56. Teaching Beyond the Gender Binary in the University Classroom
57. Teaching First-Generation College Students
58. Teaching First-Year Students
59. Teaching in Times of Crisis
60. Teaching Laboratory Classes
61. Teaching Large Classes
62. Teaching Outside the Classroom
63. Teaching Portfolios
64. Teaching Problem Solving
65. Teaching Race: Pedagogy and Practice
66. Teaching Statements
67. Teaching Sustainability
68. Teaching with Blogs
69. Team-based learning
70. Test-enhanced learning: Using retrieval practice to help students learn
71. Understanding by Design
72. Visual Thinking
73. Wikis
74. Wireless in the Classroom
75. 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.

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.