You'll find the resources organized based upon the principles of Integrated Course Design as described in L. Dee Fink's seminal work Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach in Design College Courses.
According to Fink, an integrated course specifies clearly communicated Learning Goals for the students, provides Feedback and Assessment so that both the student and instructor can understand their progress, and delivers Teaching and Learning Activities that support succeeding at the assessment and achieving the goals. All these design choices are informed by the Situational Factors in play, those things that impact the course but over which we have no control. In addition to sections for each locus in Fink's model, we've added sections on Teaching Technologies and general Professional Development.
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Situational Factors
EDvice: Context Matters: Considering Situational Factors in Course Design
Agile Pedagogy
Classroom Technology
- Classroom Technology Guidelines and Best Practices
- EDvice: Pick Me! Choosing the Right Technology Tools for Your Courses
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Unpacking Teachers' Invisible Knapsacks: Social Identity and Privilege in Higher Education A Guide to LGBTQIA+ Terminology
- CAT video: Creating an LGBTQIA+ Friendly Environment in the Classroom
- CAT pronoun guide
- Tech Tip: Tech Equity
First Gen Students
Hybrid and Blended Classes
- Teach Hybrid
- EDvice Blended, Hybrid, and Flipped Courses: What’s the Difference?
- Faculty Guidelines for Teaching in a Simulcast Modality
In-Person Classes
International Students
Large Classes
Learning Preferences
Mental Health and Wellness
- Student Safety Nest 2023
- EDvice: Teaching Through Emotional Fatigue: Strategies for Student Well-Being
- EDvice: Everyone Can Contribute to Student Well-Being
- Workshop: Fall 2021 Student Mental Health and Wellness Workshops
Motivation to Learn
Online Classes
- Teaching Online
- Design Your Online Course
- Using the CAT Canvas course templates
- Are You Ready to Teach Online?
- TeacherStream Resource Guide - Mastering Online Discussion Board Facilitation
- Adding video to your online course content: Get it ‘Copyright’
- Library Support for Faculty Moving Their Classes to Online and Alternative Learning Methods
- Online Teaching Best Practices for Instructors
- EDvice: The Zoom Black Box Blues: Building a Flexible Camera Policy
- EDvice: Four Ways to Cultivate Community in your Online Class
- EDvice: Creating a Student-Centered User Experience in Your LMS Course
Plan Ahead
Teaching in Times of Conflict
- Teaching During an Election Guide
- EDVice: Discussing National Events in Your Classroom
- EDvice: Creating Brave and Inclusive Spaces for Challenging Discussions
- EDvice: Make a Plan to Handle Hot Moments
Teaching Students Abroad
Students with Developmental Disabilities
Trauma-Informed Teaching
"What Is Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge?"
Learning Goals
- Bloom's Technology Blooms Digitally
- EDvice: Are Your Lesson-Level Learning Objectives S.M.A.R.T.?
- EDvice: Learning Goals: Dream Big!
- Carnegie Mellon Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation Curriculum Mapping page and tool
- National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment Mapping Learning: A Toolkit
Feedback & Assessment
EDvice: Looking for Evidence in all the Right Places: Aligning Assessments with Goals
Academic integrity
- Promoting Academic Honesty in Your Courses
- Remote Proctoring Solutions
- Proctorio Best Practices for a Smooth Final Exam
- EDvice: Using Proctorio Thoughtfully
- EDvice: Designing Writing Assignments to Defeat Cheating
- EDvice: Preventing Plagiarism: Six Strategies that Build Confidence and Deepen Learning
- Beating Cheating Systems
Assessment cycle
- EDvice: Effective Learning through Practice, Skill-building, and Feedback
- EDvice: Practice and Assessment, Grading and Feedback
Assignment design
- Sample AI Assignments
- EDvice: Using Course-Level Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) to Structure a Final Portfolio Assignment
- EDvice: Designing Writing Assignments to Defeat Cheating
- EDvice: Are Your Assignments Renewable or Disposable?
Canvas
- See Canvas Quizzes and Exams in Teaching Technologies section
Developing grading criteria
Feedback
- IDEA Paper: Provided meaningful feedback on students’ academic performance
- Perils and Promise of Praise
- EDvice: Feedback that Nourishes Mind and Heart
- EDvice: Wise Feedback: Using Constructive Feedback to Motivate Learners
- EDvice: Making Time for Formative Feedback
Online learning
Participation
Rubrics
Teaching & Learning Activities
EDvice Exchange: The Heart of the Course: Learning Activities!
Accessibility
- Creating Accessible Slide Presentations
- Accessible Instructional Materials
- Accessibility guidelines for multimedia
- EDvice: Opening Doors: Promoting Equity through Accessibility
- UDL Progression Rubric
Accommodations
Active learning
- Grading Class Participation
- Participation Rubric
- TeacherStream Resource Guide: Mastering Online Discussion Board Facilitation
- Using a Backchannel in In-Person Synchronous Classes
- EDvice: Making the Most of Classroom Polling
- EDvice: Best Practices for Zoom Breakout Rooms
- EDvice: Using “Reacting to the Past” Role-Playing Games to Foster Vigorous Active Learning
- EDvice: Flipping the Classroom
- EDvice: Engaging Modern Learners? Game On!
- Tech Tip: Back Channel Chat Options
- Tech Tip: Adanced Polls and Quizzes in Zoom
Belonging
- EDvice: Four Ways to Cultivate Community in your Online Class
- EDvice: Building Relationships with Students
- EDvice: Creating presence in an online course… without working around the clock
- Tech Tip: Using Your Personal Meeting Room in Zoom for Office Hours
Checking for readiness to move on
Class climate and etiquette
- IDEA Paper Establishing Rapport: Personal Interaction and Learning
- Encouraged student-faculty interaction outside of class
- EDvice: Creating Brave and Inclusive Spaces for Challenging Discussions
- EDvice: Injustice, Elections, & COVID: Effectively Handling Highly-Charged Class Discussions
- EDvice: Make a Plan to Handle Hot Moments
- EDvice: “Take My Exam…Please!” When Humor Does (and Doesn’t) Work in the Classroom
- EDvice: Beyond Icebreakers: Make the Most of the First Day of Class
- EDvice: Teaching without Talking
- EDvice: Creating a Positive Climate for Learning
- Teaching Tip: Using Humor in the Classroom
- Teaching Tip: Wrapping Up Your Semester Right
- Teaching Tip: Using Mid-Semester Evaluation
- Teaching Tip: Ending Your Semester on a High Note
Class planning
Collaborative learning and group work
- Enhancing Learning—and More!—Through Cooperative Learning
- EDvice: Asset Mapping
- Teaching Tip: Collaborative Learning as an Equitable Practice
Critical thinking
- Helping Your Students Develop Critical Thinking Skills
- Answering and Asking Questions
- Holistic Critical Thinking Rubric
- EDvice: Strategies that Support the Development of Critical Thinking
- EDvice: Connecting Writing, Revision, and Thinking in the Classroom
Cultural Competence
Diversity and Inclusion in the Classroom
- Diversity and Inclusion in the Classroom
- A Guide to LGBTQIA+ Terminology
- IDEA paper: Asked students to share ideas and experiences with others whose backgrounds and viewpoints differ from their own
- CAT video: Creating an LGBTQIA+ Friendly Environment in the Classroom
- CAT pronoun guide
- EDVice: R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Use the Pronouns Right For Thee!
- EDVice: How You Can Be A More Culturally Responsive Educator
- EDvice: Fostering an LGBTQIA+ Inclusive Learning Environment
- EDvice: A Little EDvice for Teaching Inclusively
- EDvice: Inclusive Teaching = Effective Teaching
Information literacy
Integrated Course Design
- IDEA Paper: Integrated Course Design
- A Self-Directed Guide to Designing Courses for Significant Learning
- EDvice: Composing a Course for Significant Learning
- EDvice: Course Design series
Integrative Learning
Lecture/presentation skills
- Creating Accessible Slide Presentations
- IDEA Paper: Explained course material clearly and concisely
- IDEA Paper: Introduced stimulating ideas about the subject
- Suggestions for PowerPoint Use
- EDvice: Humanizing the Large Lecture: Why It’s Important and How to Start
- EDvice: 6 Tips for Creating Engaging Video Lectures That Students Will Actually Watch
- Handout-Active Learning in Large Lectures
Mental Health and Wellness (student)
Metacognition
Motivation and Engagement
- Inspired students to set and achieve goals which really challenged them
- IDEA Paper: Demonstrated the importance and significance of the subject matter
- EDvice: Advance Organizers: Setting the Stage for Learning and Retention
- EDvice: Creating a Profession-Specific Niche Website and Database with Students: A Positive Project
- EDvice: Positive Projects: Cultivating Positive Emotions for Enhanced Learning & Professional Growth
- EDvice: Two Strategies that Promote Growth Mindset
- EDvice: Pulling Back the Curtain: Sharing Pedagogical Concepts with Students
- EDvice: Encouraging Completion of Pre-Class Assignments with the Roll of a Die
- EDvice: Emotions, Learning and the Brain
- EDvice: Do you know the Five Rs?
- Teaching Tip: Motivating Your Students
- Teaching Tip: Career Readiness and the Importance of Career Services
- Teaching Tip: Growth Mindset
Open pedagogy
- EDvice: A New Way to Discover and Adopt OER at Temple
- EDvice: Open Educational Resources: Good for Affordability; Better for Learning
- EDvice: From OER to Open Pedagogy: Next Frontier in Learning
Participation
Reading
- Getting Students to do Reading Assignments
- IDEA Paper: Getting Students to Read: Fourteen Tips
- EDvice: Using Reading Prompts to Promote Students’ Academic Reading
Student communication
- see Class climate, above.
Student Support Resources
Syllabus
- Spring 2025 Syllabus Guidance
- Temple Syllabus Policy
- EDvice: 3 Tips for a More Inclusive Syllabus
- Teaching Tip: Creating a Promising Syllabus
Teaching in the Disciplines
- Arts
- STEM
Writing instruction
- IDEA Paper: Strategies to Improve Student Writing
- EDvice: Designing Writing Assignments to Defeat Cheating
- EDvice: Connecting Writing, Revision, and Thinking in the Classroom
Zoom
- see Using Zoom in the Teaching Technologies section
Professional Development
CAT Services
Faculty conference
Peer Review
- Developing a Peer Review of Teaching Process
- Twelve Tips for Peer Observation of Teaching
- IDEA Paper: Appraising Teaching Effectiveness: Beyond Student Ratings
- Classroom Observation Worksheet
Reflective teaching
Self-care and mindfulness for faculty
- Wellness Center: Taking Care of Your Mental Well-Being: Ways to practice self-care during uncertain times
- EDvice: On the Importance of Breathing and Reflection
- EDvice: Self Care for Faculty: Four Ways to Cope When Teaching in Hard Times
- EDvice: Journaling for Professional Development
- Teaching Tip: Journaling Through Your Course
Student Feedback Forms
- Recommendations for the use of Student Feedback Form (SFF) data at Temple University
- Guide to Editing Student Feedback Forms
- EDvice: How to Read Those SFF's
- EDvice: Flip the Switch: Making the Most of Student Feedback Forms
Teaching Portfolio
Books on teaching and learning
- CAT Lending Library (available at our offices on the first floor of the TECH Center)
- Best Books for New Instructors
- Introduction to Rubrics: An Assessment Tool to Save Grading Time, Convey Effective Feedback, and Promote Student Learning 2nd Edition
- Inspired College Teaching: A Career-Long Resource for Professional Growth 1st Edition
- What the Best College Teachers Do
- Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
- The Art of Changing the Brain: Enriching the Practice of Teaching by Exploring the Biology of Learning Tools for Teaching
- Developing Learner-Centered Teaching: A Practical Guide for Faculty
- Learner Centered Teaching
- How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching
- Classrooms Without Fear: A Journey to Rediscover the Joy of Teaching
- Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms 1st Edition
- The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
- Off-Track Profs: Nontenured Teachers in Higher Education
- Developing Learner-Centered Teaching: A Practical Guide for Faculty Presentation
- Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations (Voices That Matter)
- Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher
- A Faculty Guide to Addressing Disruptive and Dangerous Behavior
- The Skillful Teacher
Teaching Technologies
Our Teaching Technologies page holds a variety of technology resources.