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.

• Assessment
  • Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs)
  • Grading Student Work
  • Writing Good Multiple Choice Test Questions
• Classroom Technology
  • Classroom Response Systems (“Clickers”)
  • Learning Spaces
  • Making Better PowerPoint Presentations
  • Multimedia Presentations
  • Wireless in the classroom
• Interactions with Students
  • Accommodating Student Athletes In the Classroom
  • Cheating & Plagiarism
  • Difficult Situations
  • Diversity & Inclusive Teaching
  • Mentoring Graduate Students
  • Motivating Students
  • Office Hours and E-mail
  • Preparing for the H1N1 Virus: An Instructor’s Guide
  • Teaching in Times of Crisis
  • Teaching First-Year Students
  • Teaching Vanderbilt Undergraduates
  • Teaching Students with Disabilities
• Online Education
  • Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
  • Blogs and Discussion Boards
  • Course Management Systems
  • Podcasting
  • Wikis
• Pedagogical Theory
  • Bloom’s Taxonomy
  • How People Learn
  • Learning Styles
  • Understanding by Design
  • Metacognition (coming soon)
• Preparing to Teach
  • Course Design
  • First Day of Class
  • Teaching Large Classes
• Reflecting on Your Teaching
  • Gathering Feedback from Students
  • Student Evaluations
  • Teaching Portfolios
  • Teaching Statements
  • The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
• Resources for Specific Audiences
  • Statistics Instructors
  • Department Chairs
  • Graduate Education
  • Grant Funding Resources for Educational Initiatives
  • International Teaching Assistants Guide
  • New Teachers
  • Professional Development for Future Faculty
  • Supervisors of Teaching Assistants
  • Teaching Assistants
• Service Learning and Community Engagement
  • What is Service Learning or Community Engagement?
  • A Word on Nomenclature
  • Best Practices in Community Engaged Teaching
  • Community Engaged Teaching Step by Step
  • Challenges and Opportunities of Community Engaged Teaching
  • Additional Resources
• Sustainability and Pedagogy
  • What is Sustainability?
  • Interdisciplinarity
  • Place-Based and Project-Based Learning
  • Teaching with Ecological Footprints
  • Tips for Teaching Sustainability
  • Resources
• Teaching Approaches
  • Flipping the Classroom
  • Team-based learning
  • Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT)
  • Case Studies
  • Contemplative Pedagogy
  • Cooperative Learning
  • Difficult Dialogues
  • Discussions
  • Lecturing
  • One-on-One Teaching & Independent Studies
  • Teaching Laboratory Classes
  • Teaching Problem Solving
  • Teaching Outside the Classroom
  • Team/Collaborative Teaching
  • Visual Thinking

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.