Academic Integrity Resources for Instructors
This teaching resource supports you in proactively designing for academic integrity, and to share ideas for supporting learners in meeting their learning goals with integrity.
Active Learning
Active learning is any approach to instruction in which all students are asked to engage in the learning process. Active learning stands in contrast to "traditional" modes of instruction in which students are passive recipients of knowledge from an expert.
Course and Syllabus Design
This resource introduces the 4As Framework (Atmosphere, Aims, Activities, Assessments), a practical, learning-centered approach to course and syllabus design. Grounded in backward design principles, it offers strategies to align goals, assessments, and activities while fostering inclusive, engaging learning environments.
Online Teaching and Design
Support for online teaching and design can be found on the Teaching Support website. This site includes resources from CEI as well as other units across the University that support online teaching and design.
Team Projects
Are you considering using a team project in your course? Have you used them before but feel that there’s room for improvement? Wondering how to address a challenge you or your students face?
This resource provides effective, research-based practices and resources to help you create, support, and assess team projects in your class, whether it’s online, face to face, or hybrid.
Teaching in an Active Learning Classroom (ALC)
Active learning classrooms (ALCs) are student-centered, technology-rich classrooms. They are easily identified with their large student tables and moveable seating designed to facilitate and promote active learning.
Leveraging Learning Sciences Research for Teaching
This resource synthesizes common themes from the pedagogical literature about student learning that have a solid foundation of research behind them. The five principles highlighted here can help guide your teaching approach. For each of these principles we list concrete strategies that you can use or adapt in your teaching.
Anti-Racism Resources for Higher Ed
Anti-racism positions racial equity work as an active and on-going process of identifying, describing, and dismantling racist systems, policies, and practices. These activities and resources aim to support academics across disciplines and identities who are engaged in addressing racism in higher education.
Inclusive Teaching at a Predominantly White Institution
This guide introduces a basic framework for “Inclusive Teaching at a Predominantly White Institution (PWI).” You will find definitions, key ideas, PWI assumptions, core concepts, suggested teaching practices, and references so that you can develop your capacity for inclusive teaching in ways that fit your teaching contexts.
Strategies to Support Challenging Conversations in the Classroom
This resource offers strategies for navigating and facilitating challenging conversations in educational settings. Drawing on diverse scholarly and practical perspectives, it provides adaptable frameworks for both new and experienced educators to effectively engage with complex topics. Regular updates and personalized consultations ensure relevance and customization to specific teaching contexts.
Strategies to Support Challenging Conversations in the Classroom
Teaching with Access and Inclusion
When embraced fully, accessible and inclusive teaching is a paradigm shift that fundamentally alters thinking about curriculum, course design, the classroom and campus culture. This resource provides foundational information for teaching with access and inclusion.
Teaching Globally Diverse Classes
UMN’s systemwide Global Programs and Strategy Alliance offers a number of events focused on internationalizing the curriculum and campus, supporting the integration of international and domestic students, and internationalizing teaching and learning. They also offer a certificate for Teaching Globally Diverse Classes.
Trauma-Informed Teaching and Learning
Trauma-informed teaching strategies incorporate calmness through clarity and flexibility, and integrate principles of Universal Design for Learning in course format and content delivery, assessment formats an grading, and instructor characteristics and practices.
Create Assessments that Promote Learning For All Students
This resource offers concrete suggestions for instructors, examples of applications of suggested strategies by UMN instructors, and links to additional resources and references. The content and approaches address different teaching formats so as to be useful whether you teach online, face-to-face, or in a hybrid format.
Online Assessments
Online assessments may be used to support instructional goals, even if your primary course format isn’t fully online. They may be incorporated into any learning environment: online, blended, or in-person.
Generative AI in Teaching and Learning
Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) has exploded across the world and throughout the educational landscape, and with it come both opportunities and challenges. Here are a few key resources from across the University of Minnesota on how to best incorporate generative AI into your teaching practices.
Gathering Feedback and Documenting Professional Growth in Teaching
Collect feedback from students, colleagues, yourself, and University instructional consultants to support your teaching goals and development.
Gathering Feedback and Documenting Professional Growth in Teaching
Early Term Feedback on Teaching
An early term assessment of teaching/learning (between Weeks 3 and 8) is one of the most recommended formative approaches to improve the educational environment for your students. Get recommendations on how to collect, interpret, and respond to your students' feedback.
Interpreting and Responding to SRT Scores
SRT scores and comments reflect your students’ feedback on their experience in your course and offer an important perspective on your instruction and their learning. This resource provides guidance on identifying themes and offers teaching strategies to address low scores for each SRT item.
A Guide to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning or SoTL is a systematic investigation of a teaching/learning issue that is shared for review, dissemination and possibly some action that changes what is done in the classroom. Learn more about how engaging in SoTL will help provide evidentiary basis for your teaching practice.
A Guide to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Writing Your Teaching Philosophy
Your teaching philosophy is a self-reflective statement of your beliefs about teaching and learning. This resource helps you get started including the drafting process and provides rubrics and samples.