The LTS Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning has curated and developed numerous resources to assist faculty develop engaging and inclusive learning environments for students.
- Getting Started Teaching at Lehigh: Ten Tips
- Syllabus Template - a Google Document (downloadable as a Word document) that provides guidance to instructors who are developing syllabi
- Syllabus Planning: 10 Questions - questions to consider when planning or revising a syllabus
- Course Site Resources
- Inclusive Teaching: Identifying Challenges and Selecting Approaches (handout)
- Inclusive Teaching in Challenging Times: Suggested actions instructors can take during an event or incident that is likely on the minds of our students
- Facilitating Difficult Race Discussions (Wiley white paper)
- Selected Articles about Inclusive Teaching (links)
- Course Design Worksheet - Tips on designing a course, writing learning objectives, planning assignments, and developing a course schedule
- Active Learning Strategies - a brief list of classroom strategies that engage students
- Active Listening Guide - in order to effectively respond to students, we must first understand what they are saying or what they are asking. One way to do so is to listen actively as they describe an experience, challenge, question or opportunity.
- A Rough Checklist for Getting Started Teaching Online Courses at Lehigh
- Learning Objectives and Assessment-Stem Words Worksheet - a guide to writing learning outcomes or posing questions on assessments
- Designing Research Paper Assignments: Characteristics of Effective Assignments - Tips on designing a research paper assignment
- Feedback-Capture-Grid
- Early-semester Feedback forms - sample forms you can use to invite feedback from students on your teaching, on your courses, etc.
- Effective, Efficient Grading - tips on designing courses and assignments that improve and simplify the grading process
- Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education (Chickering and Gamson) - a classic statement of good teaching practices
- Lehigh is a member of the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD) as an Institutional Member. The NCFDD is a nationally-recognized, independent organization that provides online career development and mentoring resources for faculty, postdocs, and graduate students To claim your free Institutional Membership, please visit www.FacultyDiversity.org/Join and select Lehigh University from the member list.
- Structuring Class Meetings: A Planning Guide - a framework for planning out approaches and activities during class meetings.
- Classroom Management and Organization - Brief overview of some effective strategies
- CITL Teaching Spaces - CITL Classroom (EWFM 379); CITL Visualization Lab (EWFM 370d); CITL Commons (EWFM 370); CITL Glassroom (EWFM 520)
- Structuring Class Meetings: A Planning Guide - a framework for planning out approaches and activities during class meetings.
- Interactive Lectures In-class or On Zoom
- Discussion-based Online Classes - Sample Weekly Workflow for Instructors and Students
- Lecture-style Online Classes - Sample Weekly Workflow for Instructors and Students
- Recommended Pedagogical Framework: Blending Synchronous and Asynchronous Approaches
- Hybrid Teaching: Strategies for Instructors with both In-classroom and Remote Students
- Preparing to teach Blended, Hybrid, or Online classes: A Step-by-step Guide.
- Academic Integrity Resources - Information for faculty on deterring and detecting academic integrity violations
- Academic Integrity Vignettes - a PowerPoint document that provides academic integrity case studies for use by instructors during class review of policies and approaches
- Making Sense of Student Evaluations - advice for instructors to use when reading and reflecting on student evaluations
- Books on Teaching and Learning
- Chronicle of Higher Education Teaching Guides
- How to Create a Syllabus, by Kevin Gannon
- How to Teach a Good First Day of Class, by James M. Lang
- How to Make Your Teaching More Engaging, by Sarah Rose Cavanagh
- How to Hold a Better Class Discussion, by Jay Howard
- How to Make Your Teaching More Inclusive, by Viji Sathy and Kelly A. Hogan
- How to Be a Better Online Teacher, by Flower Darby