Teaching

Selected teaching resources to help you get started in designing your courses and developing your syllabi. 

• Student Learning
• How People Learn (pdf)
• Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains
• Motivating Students
• Conduct Class in Support of Students' Learning (pdf)

• Course Design
• Universal Design of Instruction (UDI): Definition, Principles, Guidelines, and Examples
• Designing a Course

• Assessment
• Top Ten Tips for Assessing Student Learning
• Rubrics: Tools for Learning, Teaching & Assessment (video: VU login required)

• Teaching Approaches
• How to Teach a Good First Day of Class
• 3 Tips for the Minutes Before Class
• Planning a Class Session
• Active Learning for the College Classroom
• Flipping Your Class - Active Learning Approach
• Group Learning
• Teaching Inclusively
• How Can We Use Technology to Support Students’ Learning? (pdf)

• Syllabus - Villanova Specific Resources
• Writing an Inclusive, Learning-Centered Syllabus (pdf)
• Students’ Expectations and the Motivational Syllabus (pdf)
• Course Syllabi: Communication of Villanova Learning Resources and Services (pdf)
• Link to undergraduate course syllabus checklist, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
• Graduate Course Syllabus Checklist - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (.docx)
• Sample syllabi, Villanova University
• Dr. Stephen Strader, Geography & the Environment, Syllabus (pdf)
• Dr. Alexander Diaz-Lopez, Mathematics & Statistics, Syllabus (pdf)
• Dr. Joseph Toscano, Psychological & Brain Sciences, Syllabus (pdf)

Link to a repository of instructional resources.