Online Guides
Learn about the principles behind active learning, and peruse examples of ways to incorporate it into your own teaching.
Learn effective practices for assessing student learning in your course. [NB: Takes you to an external site.]
Read the CTL's evolving guidance about how to teach in the age of generative artificial intelligence.
Learn more about co-creating community norms and expectations and group contracts with your students, getting to know your students as individuals, and how to manage challenging situations or disruptive classroom behaviors.
Learn more about effective practices for classroom teaching, including lecturing and board work.
Connect with some advice and resources to help you think through how to make your mentoring relationships as intentional and productive as possible.
Being able to read like a disciplinary expert—someone who is capable of navigating the different sections and conventions of a journal article, or to put a piece of literature in the context of broader debates in a field—is an essential skill for learning in most majors. How can we develop these skills in students who may assume they already know how to "read"?
Teaching effectively only goes so far if your students do not also know the things they need to do to be effective learners in your field. Peruse our guidance and resources focused on how to help students become effective participants in your course.
Read our advice on how to design your course—and how to communicate your policies and expectations to students through your syllabus.
Advice for TAs, CAs, and IAs—and any other early career instructors—on how to get started in the classroom and manage things like office hours.
Learn more about how to teach, and respond to, student writing.