Below are a myriad of useful resources curated and/or created by the CITL and made available to assist in enhancing teaching and learning at Lehigh.
General Advice for this semester: "Preparing to Teach in AY 22-23"
Getting Started Teaching at Lehigh
- 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
Inclusive Teaching 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)
- Inclusive Teaching Resources (links)
- Selected Articles about Inclusive Teaching (links)
Recommended Approaches
- Preparing to teach Blended, Hybrid, or Online classes: A Step-by-step Guide.
- Recommended Pedagogical Framework: Blending Synchronous and Asynchronous Approaches
- Structuring Class Meetings: A Planning Guide - a framework for planning out approaches and activities during class meetings.
- Interactive Lectures In-class or On Zoom
- Hybrid Teaching: Strategies for Instructors with both In-classroom and Remote Students
Course design, structure, strategies
- Structuring Class Meetings: A Planning Guide - a framework for planning out approaches and activities during class meetings.
- 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
Faculty development, pedagogical strategies
- Getting Started Teaching at Lehigh: 10 Tips
- 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
- Learning Objectives and Assessment-Stem Words Worksheet - a guide to writing learning outcomes or posing questions on assessments
- 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.
Blended, Online, and Hybrid Teaching
- Preparing to teach Blended, Hybrid, or Online classes: A Step-by-step Guide.
- 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
- CITL Video Modules on specific topics
- Planning for Fall 2020 | Planning for AY 21-22
Teaching spaces and classroom management
- CITL Teaching Spaces - CITL Classroom (EWFM 379); CITL Visualization Lab (EWFM 370d); CITL Commons (EWFM 370); CITL Glassroom (EWFM 520)
- Classroom Management and Organization - Brief overview of some effective strategies
Other resources
- Course Site Resources
- 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
- Classroom Visit and Feedback - a program connects Lehigh instructors with trained undergraduate students who visit classrooms and offer feedback on teaching and presentations
- 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
CITL reports