Teaching Resources
Access to Articles, Webinars, and Videos
- Chronicle of Higher Education - Chronicle of Higher Education access is provided free to SIUE faculty through a site license. Quick access to relevant, timely information can be found quickly through this link. Consider subscribing to the Teaching Newsletter and checking out the upcoming and virtual event section.
- On-Demand Videos (Magna) - Midweek Mentor On-Demand offers our entire campus community unlimited access to 20-minute-long online professional development seminars. You can access the materials on computers, laptops, tablets, or cell phones. Learn from your office, on the train, or even on the beach! On-Demand videos cover a broad range of faculty development topics and are used in the Midweek Mentor sessions.
- Searchable Advice Finder from The Chronicle of Higher Education - Academic experts offer guidance to use whether you’re new to higher education, new to your role, or simply need a refresher.
- Midweek Mentor Blog Archive- The archive of the Midweek Mentor blogs includes content from past Midweek Mentor sessions from 2014-2023.
- Active Learning Library - A free online resource that lets instructors browse over 40 different learning activities and filter them according to their own goals and interests. For example, instructors can search for activities that provide formative feedback, support small group engagement, build metacognitive skills, work well in online classes, or don't take too long to prepare.
- Chronicle of Higher Education Teaching Newsletter
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Faculty Focus Newsletter - Sign up for the free teaching in higher education newsletter.
Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity - Activate your membership first, then Click on Library, Choose Teaching from the filter to find recorded webinars such as: Teaching in No Time series & Find Joy in Teaching
- Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - Resources on how to create an inclusive classroom environment. Including:
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Generative AI (e.g. ChatGPT, Bard, Bing Chat, Claude) - This page contains useful resources and tools related to generative artificial intelligence (AI) programs and how faculty can integrate them into their classroom policies.
Classroom Preparation
- Tips and Links for the First Days - Actions to create a supportive, inclusive, and equitable classroom, including a first-day student survey, tips on communicating your AI expectations, and how to remember students and know how to pronounce their names.
- Making a Syllabus - The Making a Syllabus page includes resources for creating a syllabus, a link to IDLT's syllabus template and sample syllabus policies.
- Plagiarism Prevention - This page contains tools and policies related to plagiarism and cheating.
- Student Group Projects - The Student Group Project page contains resources for organizing effective student group projects.
- Flipped Classroom - The Flipped Teaching page contains resources pertaining to the Flipped Teaching method.
- Instructional Design and Learning Technologies (IDLT) - Instructional Design Consultants will assist you in designing your online or traditional course. Contact them with questions or to schedule a consultation.
Classroom Tools
- 2023 SIUE Students' Discussion on STEM Education- Results from peer-led focus groups about problems student are facing in pursuing their STEM education
- Student Evaluations of Teaching (SET)- SET is one source of information used to make data-driven and validated tenure and promotion decisions (Student Evaluation of Teaching Committee). It is a tool to gather end-of-semester student evaluations of your teaching (SIUE policy 1J7).
- ITS Training/Library Resources - This page contains information about Library services related to teaching.
- Digital Content Captioning for Faculty - A service offered by Online and Education Outreach, IDLT, and ACCESS provides assistance to faculty in captioning videos that they have created and stored in the Yuja software for instructional purposes. Additional information about this service , including a form to request captioning assistance, is available on the captioning request link.
- Teaching Peer Consultants - SIUE Faculty are available to assist you with your teaching questions. They can visit your class to provide a peer observation or Group Instructional Feedback Technique (GIFT) or review and discuss teaching concerns.
- Solve a Teaching Problem - Website at the Carnegie Mellon Teaching Center will walk you through solutions to various teaching problems.
- Check Out Books on Teaching from the CDFI's Collection - You can browse inside the CFDI or search the Lovejoy Library catalog to find a variety of current books to check out.
- Critical Thinking - The Critical Thinking page provides resources and strategies to help students develop critical thinking skills
