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. Beyond the Essay: Making Student Thinking Visible in the Humanities
7. Blended and Online Learning
8. Bloom’s Taxonomy
9. Case Studies
10. Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs)
11. Classroom Response Systems (“Clickers”)
12. Creating Accessible Learning Environments
13. Dealing with the unexpected: Teaching when you or your students can’t make it to class
14. Developing and Writing a Diversity Statement
15. Difficult Dialogues
16. Digital labs and simulations
17. Digital Textbooks: Working with publisher-provided online platforms
18. Digital Timelines
19. Discussions
20. Effective Educational Videos
21. Feminist Pedagogy
22. First Day of Class
23. Flipping the Classroom
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 Styles
34. Leveraging Travel Abroad: Collecting and Teaching with Authentic Resources
35. Making Better PowerPoint Presentations
36. Mentoring Graduate Students
37. Metacognition
38. Mindfulness in the Classroom
39. Motivating Students
40. Office Hours and E-mail
41. One-on-One Teaching & Independent Studies
42. Pedagogy for Professional Schools and Students
43. Peer Review of Teaching
44. Podcasting
45. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
46. Service Learning & Community Engagement
47. Service Learning Challenges & Opportunities
48. Service Learning Step by Step
49. Soliciting and Utilizing Mid-Semester Feedback
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 Race: Pedagogy and Practice
65. Teaching Statements
66. Teaching Sustainability
67. Teaching with Blogs
68. Team-based learning
69. Test-enhanced learning: Using retrieval practice to help students learn
70. Understanding by Design
71. Visual Thinking
72. Wikis
73. Wireless in the Classroom
74. 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.