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
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. Cheating & Plagiarism
10. Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs)
11. Classroom Response Systems (“Clickers”)
12. Cooperative Learning
13. Dealing with the unexpected: Teaching when you or your students can’t make it to class
14. Difficult Dialogues
15. Digital Textbooks: Working with publisher-provided online platforms
16. Digital Timelines
17. Discussions
18. Effective Educational Videos
19. Feminist Pedagogy
20. First Day of Class
21. Flipping the Classroom
22. Gathering Feedback from Students
23. Grading Student Work
24. Graduate Education
25. Group work: Using cooperative learning groups effectively
26. How People Learn
27. Incorporating Research into Science Courses
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 Statistics
66. Teaching Students with Disabilities
67. Teaching Sustainability
68. Teaching with Blogs
69. Teaching Vanderbilt Undergraduates
70. Team-based learning
71. Test-enhanced learning: Using retrieval practice to help students learn
72. Understanding by Design
73. Visual Learning
74. Wikis
75. Wireless in the Classroom
76. 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.