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. An Introduction to Lecturing
5. Beyond the Essay: Making Student Thinking Visible in the Humanities
6. Blended and Online Learning
7. Bloom’s Taxonomy
8. Case Studies
9. Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs)
10. Classroom Response Systems (“Clickers”)
11. Creating Accessible Learning Environments
12. Dealing with the unexpected: Teaching when you or your students can’t make it to class
13. Developing and Writing a Diversity Statement
14. Difficult Dialogues
15. Digital labs and simulations
16. Digital Textbooks: Working with publisher-provided online platforms
17. Digital Timelines
18. Discussions
19. Effective Educational Videos
20. Feminist Pedagogy
21. First Day of Class
22. Flipping the Classroom
23. Gathering Feedback from Students
24. Grading Student Work
25. Graduate Education
26. Group work: Using cooperative learning groups effectively
27. How People Learn
28. Increasing Inclusivity in the Classroom
29. International Teaching Assistants Guide
30. Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT)
31. Keeping Stress from Evolving into Distress: A Guide on Managing Student Stress through Course Design
32. Learning and Course Management Systems (LMS/CMS)
33. Learning Spaces
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. Student Evaluations
51. Supervisors of Teaching Assistants
52. Syllabus Design
53. Teaching Adult Undergraduate Students
54. Teaching Assistants
55. Teaching Beyond the Gender Binary in the University Classroom
56. Teaching First-Generation College Students
57. Teaching First-Year Students
58. Teaching in Times of Crisis
59. Teaching Laboratory Classes
60. Teaching Large Classes
61. Teaching Outside the Classroom
62. Teaching Portfolios
63. Teaching Problem Solving
64. Teaching Statements
65. Teaching Sustainability
66. Teaching with Blogs
67. Team-based learning
68. Test-enhanced learning: Using retrieval practice to help students learn
69. Understanding by Design
70. Visual Thinking
71. Wikis
72. Wireless in the Classroom
73. 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.