Best Practices and Pedagogies Resources
List of Resources
- Accessible Syllabus
- Academic Success Tip: Add Syllabus Reading Assignments (https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/academic-life/2023/08/14/how-get-college-students-read-whole-syllabus)
- Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) VALUE Rubrics.
- Student Wellness Tip: Add Syllabus Policy on Mental Health Days
- Creating a Learner-Centered Syllabus and template for Learner-Centered Syllabus
- “The First Days of Class” (blog by Cate Denial, author of A Pedagogy of Kindness, see her main blog page for a lot of other great resources and ideas!)
- Gannon, K. (2018). How to Create a Syllabus – Advice Guide. Chronicle of Higher Education.
- How to support student wellness with trauma-informed pedagogy and PRACTICE (tip from Indiana Univ) – all items start with your syllabus and course design.
✔ Predictability—Inform students of relevant policies and practices and stick to them.
✔ Relationships—Build in opportunities to connect with you and with peers.
✔ Access—Ensure students know how to reach you and with what needs.
✔ Choice—Give students control of parts of their experience where possible.
✔ Transparency—Be completely clear in your instructions and expectations.
✔ Intention—Explicitly share the rationale for your decisions and assigned tasks.
✔ Care—Express verbal and nonverbal care in your interactions with students.
✔ Empathy—Ask students about their experiences and see through their lens.
- Learner-Centered Syllabus Guide
- Mindful and Learner-Centered Syllabus Toolkit
- Office Hours: An Old Tool for New Challenges
- Trauma-Aware Teaching Checklist
- Web Accessibility in Mind
- Young, Jennie. Top 10 Ways to Avoid Student Complaints – see “#3. Stop saying, ‘It’s in the syllabus.’”
- Ten Tips for a More Inclusive Space
- How to Teach a Good First Day of Class
- Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning
- 20 Ways Professors Can Make Their Classes More Inclusive
- How to Create a Syllabus
- What It’s Like to Send Your Autistic Kid Off to College
- Making Class Participation Grades Meaningful
- Biology Syllabi Lack Learner-Centered Principles