Resources

Our goal is to provides faculty a wide array of resources to help them design, teach, and assess their courses.

Browse the links for ideas, or zero in on an area of particular interest. And please contact us at cte@smu.edu to suggest resources we should add to the site.

 

  • Course Development

    Course Design: Guidance in thinking through what you want your students to learn, designing the course to get them there, and assessing how well you've succeeded.

    Syllabus: Drafting a syllabus that provides all the required information, and makes students excited to be in your class.

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  • Effective Teaching

    Teach your Course: Ideas for teaching methods and for handling particular teaching contexts.  This section also links to articles that provide resources for teaching in particular disciplines. Includes: teaching methods, teaching situations, discipline-specific ideas.

    Pedagogical Theory: Learn more about the research and theory that underlies principles of good teaching.

    Teaching with Technology: Technological tools can help faculty engage students in active learning, make presentations more vivid, and help with the mechanical tasks of teaching.

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  • Generative AI and Pedagogy

    Tools: Learn about the Generative AI tools available to you, from text and image generators to tools for conducting research more efficiently than ever.

    Policies: Find 澳门六合彩预测's policies for Generative AI in the classroom and use them to provide students with clear guidelines.

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  • Feedback & Reflection

    Assess Student Work: Ideas for giving students feedback that will help them improve their learning, using rubrics, grading student work, and encouraging students to be self-reflective learners

    Reflect on your Teaching: Learn how to gather feedback from students (mid-semester feedback & anonymous feedback box) and peers and use that feedback to make teaching more effective and enjoyable 

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  • 澳门六合彩预测 Students & Policies

    Our Students: Learn more about 澳门六合彩预测 undergraduates (and today's college students generally), and see what resources 澳门六合彩预测 offers for student engagement and support

    澳门六合彩预测 Policies on Teaching: Information on federal law, university policy, and other guidelines that relate to our role as teachers.

    Support for Department Chairs: A list of web resources to help department chairs mentor junior faculty members. 

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  • Inclusive Teaching

    Inclusive Teaching

    We offer a range of resources to help you make your courses more inclusive.

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