Teaching Resources and Guides
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» Planning and Building Your Course
» Educational Strategies and Frameworks
» Assessing and Grading
» Technologies for Teaching
» Faculty Development & Resources
Planning and Building Your Course
- Backward design and learning objectives
The foundation of course design - Universal design for learning
A framework for reaching all learners - Syllabus resources
Templates and guidelines - Prepping for the first day of class
Ideas for putting your best foot forward - Use accessible course materials
Making sure all students can access your content - Online Course Design Guidelines
Generally based on the Quality Matters framework - Books about teaching at Howe Library
Educational Strategies and Frameworks
- Active learning ideas
Ways to engage students in their own learning - Helping students stay on track
Tips for helping students who need it - Making course materials accessible
UVM is committed to providing instruction
equally accessible to all learners - Project-based learning
Provide students with real-world projects, preparing
them for work after college - Service learning
UVM’s resource for academic service-learning - Teaching international and multilingual students
Resources and tips - Transparent assignment design
Concrete steps to clarify assignments,
helping student succeed - Universal design for learning:
A framework for reaching all learners - Using slides in classroom teaching
Tips for lecture slide design and delivery
Assessing and grading
- Academic integrity
Resources and tips for helping students
succeed with academic integrity - Exam Wrappers
A powerful tool to help students understand
why they earned their test grade - Classroom assessment techniques
A range of quick activities to gauge students’
understanding of what you’ve just covered in class - Giving exams to quarantined students
If students must stay out of class but aren’t sick,
how you can administer their tests - Assess in Brightspace with the Quiz tool<
Technologies for Teaching
- Transitioning to Brightspace (See transition website)
- Microsoft Teams
A list of all the Teams-related help pages
on the UVM Knowledge Base - iClickers at UVM
Student response system for in-class polling, etc. - Padlet
A collaborative digital bulletin board and map tool - Perusall
A social reader/annotation platform - Screencasting
For making a video recording of your screen and your voice narration. - UVM Streaming media UVM’S youtube-like streaming service
- Using slides in classroom teaching
Tips for making lecture slide decks more engaging - Yellowdig
An engaging class discussion alternative that can be used within Brightspace
Faculty development & resources at UVM
- Writing in the Disciplines
- UVM Division of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
- Faculty Resource Network – enrichment seminars (UVM is a member so participation is free)