The teaching toolkit contains resources and materials to support your teaching endeavors…
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| A Guide for Flipping your Class | In a flipped class model, short video lectures are viewed by students before the class session and in-class time is used for exercises, projects, or discussions. | This guide includes best practices and recording considerations. | View PDF |
| A Guide for Using Digital Assessments | This one-page guide presents some considerations when implementing digital assessments in your course. | Considerations for using digital assessments include: format, access and visibility, and type of assignment. | View PDF |
| A Guide to Teaching with Open Education Resources (OER) | This one-page guide provides an overview for using or creating OERs. | The guide outlines the benefits, considerations, and next steps to take if you’re considering using OERs in your course. | View PDF |
| Accessibility Guidelines for Course Materials | This page provides a comprehensive overview to making different file types and web platform interfaces, including Canvas, accessible. | Guidelines include best practices and detailed explanations about Word Documents, PDFs, and PowerPoint files, among other varieties of content delivery. | Visit Site |
| Book Recommendations | The staff at the Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation and the Teaching Academy have compiled a list of our favorite books that promote evidence-based teaching and learning practices in higher education. | A link to our current recommendations can be found in the next column. Contact your university library, preferred local bookstore, or an online book retailer for current stock and/or pricing of titles | Visit Book List |
| Center for Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) | Center for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) – a consortium of colleges and universities – is committed to enhancing STEM education. | CIRTL is committed to providing STEM doctoral students and post docs with a rich array of professional development opportunities on pedagogy, teaching, and creation of research-informed instructional resources. | Visit Site |
| Customizable Canvas Teaching Modules | An unbundled series of customizable Canvas modules that provides a broad population of both new and existing JHU instructors with essential information about teaching. | Residing in Canvas Commons, each module allows for customization to align with respective divisional, departmental or program level. Topics orient instructors to teaching at JHU and provide foundational teaching topics such as course design, assessment, and inclusive practices. | Go to page |
| Future PI Slack Website | The Future PI Slack group is an informal peer mentoring group for biomedical postdocs who are interested in staying in academia. | Includes information about grant applications, conferences, the faculty job search, and other topics of common interest. | Visit Site |
| Improve Your Teaching Skills | Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Institute for Excellence in Education (IEE) has compiled a series of valuable resources in this website with a goal to provide practical teaching tips, promote self-reflection, network and share ideas. | The link to the left provides access to this asynchronous training site. | Visit IEE’s Improve Your Teaching site |
| Inclusive Teaching Strategies | The Teaching Academy and the CTEI have assembled guidelines and resources on fostering inclusivity in the classroom. | Resources include the CTEI’s Inclusive Teaching cards, information on Hopkins Universal Design for Learning (HUDL), and classroom activities that target belonging. | Go to page |
| Presentation Strategies | An overview of effective presentation skills using slide decks. | Improve your presentation skills, structure your narrative appropriately, design with professional polish, and create narrated slideshows for practice. | Visit Site |
| Resources for Facilitating Difficult Conversations in the Classroom | These resources provide guidelines and recommendations for facilitating difficult conversations in the classroom, both online and in-person. | The first two resources are more focused on facilitating difficult conversations in the in-person classroom and third on the asynchronous online classroom. | Go to page |
| Resources on Teaching Remotely | These are resources synchronous and asynchronous online teaching. While largely targeted to a KSAS audience, there are best practices in online course delivery that can be applied more broadly. | Resources include student engagement and community-building online, conducting lab and design courses remotely, and remote assessment. | Go to page |
| Student Disability Services | JHU guidelines for teaching students with disabilities. | These include guidelines for instructors, procedures and policies for students and faculty, and services for students for disabilities. | Visit Site |
| Surveying Your Students | Get useful information from your students to anticipate issues before they happen. | These guides include best practices for what to include, example survey questions, and a template that can be repurposed. | Visit Site |
| Teaching Observations | Receiving feedback on teaching is an important component of professional development in that it identifies potential improvement and growth areas, while also increasing instructor’s confidence in areas in which they already excel. | This page provides a guide for conducting teaching observations and includes two forms to help support the teaching observation. | Go to page |
| Teaching Philosophy and Statements | A teaching philosophy statement helps instructors reflect on their own path to teaching and empowering students. These statements are often used to help teachers define their philosophy, track their growth, and reflect deeply on their teaching theory and practice. They also are used to apply for an academic positions. | Visit our page for some resources to help guide the development of your teaching philosophy and write your teaching statement. If you would like feedback on your teaching statement, please email your request, along with an electronic copy, to [email protected]. | Go to page |
| Teaching Portfolios | A teaching portfolio helps instructors organize and share their teacher training, teaching experience, and student learning. | Additional Resources:
| Dr. Mike Reese, Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation View Presentation |
| Visual Resources | Information about image and discovery and use. | This includes links to image collections, guides on using images when teaching, and links to copyright resources. | Visit Site |