Teaching Resources

• College Mental Health: Data Trends and Resources to Support Faculty - Serena King and Hussein Rajput (Spring 2024) - Slides

• Faculty and Staff Toolbox for supporting students through Mental Health Challenges - Serena King (Spring 2024)

• Understanding and Supporting Student Neurodiversity - Katy Rimstad and Hussein Rajput (Spring 2024)

For many students the course starts with the syllabus.  Even when they do not read it completely, they get the first impression of their instructors from the syllabi.  During the semester, syllabi become important sources for clarity in assignments, grading, access to the course materials, and support systems students can use.  Syllabus language shows what we as instructors expect from students and students pick on these expectations.  In other words, syllabi are important!  

Please use the resources below, send us your concerns, requests, and suggestions, or reach out for any help you might need for syllabus development or review.  Your CTL Team is here to help! 

• Syllabus Template: ideas, suggestions, and explanations for why inclusive language and universal design matter!

• Syllabus Checklist, Resources, and Considerations

• Sample Syllabus Language for University-wide Policies and Resources

• Further Amazing Resources for Syllabus Design

• Hamline Syllabus Examples

• "One of the most important days of the semester is the first day of class. Reimagining the traditional “syllabus day” to an engaged “preview day” provides an opportunity to set a desired tone for the semester."  Are you dreading the "syllabus day"?  Are you interested in approaches to make this day as effective and engaging as possible? - Reimagining the Syllabus Day (Anthony Lacina) - a quick and useful read with tons of ideas and suggestions

• Supporting First Generation Students - First Scholars - Lisa Nordeen, Carlos Sneed (Fall 2024)

• Student Mental Health: Accommodations - Steve Anderson, Hussein Rajput, Kate Johnston, Patti Kersten, Irina Makarevitch (Fall 2024)

• Instructional Inclusive Practices: Maximizing Success for All Students - Betsy Parrish and Jodi Goldberg (Spring 2024)

• Welcoming students to your class - Letitia Basford (Fall 2021)

• Tips to make your assignments more accessible - Letitia Basford (Spring 2022)

• Attendance and Engagement Strategies - Kate Johnson, Nicole Nelson, Lisa Nordeen, and Linnette Werber (Fall 2023) 

• Who are Hamline Students - Kate  Johnson and Lisa Nordeen (Fall 2022)

• What is Appreciative Advising? - Kate  Johnson and Lisa Nordeen (Fall 2022)

• Providing (and Receiving) Meaningful Feedback - Leif Hembre (Fall 2022)

• Engagement Strategies - Sofia Pacheco-Fores (Fall 2022)

• Empowering Students with Choice - Nicole Nelson (Fall 2022)

• Strategies to Boost Student Belonging - Lisa Nordeen (Fall 2022)

• Attendance and Engagement Strategies (CTL Presents 2023)

• Teaching for Equity, Thinking Structurally - Mike Reynolds and Caroline Hilk (Fall 2021) - and an amazing PadLet summarizing Factors affecting Hamline students' experiences in the words of Hamline Faculty

• Kicking Off A Year of Anti-Racism - David Everett (Fall 2021)

• Equity and Inclusion in Practice - Maggie Struck (Fall 2021)

Regardless of modality, online, face-to-face, and hybrid courses these days have online presence. Check out Hamline resources for teaching online.

• Teaching Synchronously - strategies to engage students (Trish Harvey and Karen Moroz - Fall 2022)

• Establishing Social Presence in Online Courses - Trish Harvey - Fall 2022

Presenting their work to others within and outside of class adds a high-impact dimension to students' projects.  While various fields approach presentations differently, posters and infographics typically lend themselves to successful presentations in various fields and for courses of different levels.

Posters: Templates, Resources, Examples

• Poster Template - Google Slides - set to be 3 ft by 3ft - make a copy and create away!

Infographics: Templates, Resources, Examples

• Infographic Development Guide - a set of prompts and questions to consider as you are developing your assignment 

• A list of infographic Resources and Templates

• ENG 3370 Writing for Multimodal Contexts - Jen England - Infographic Project  Infographic Rubric 

• ENG 1800 - Jen England - Proposal and Infographic Questions for Student Discussion Student Examples

• CJFS Senior Capstone - Sarah Greenman - Infographic Evaluation Form

Hamline Plan Goal: Communicate Effectively through Writing

– Expository Writing - In the first-year writing course, Composition and Research (FYW 1120), students develop the skills needed for researching and writing in academic and public contexts. They use research to explore varied perspectives on complex issues and write to articulate a focused idea supported by evidence, with attention to audience expectations and genre conventions.

– Writing Across the Curriculum - In writing-intensive courses, students identify specific written communication objectives appropriate to the course and the discipline, practice writing with guidance from the instructor, allowing feedback before the final product and building upon students’ writing strengths, and focus on the written communication process as well as the final product. Students complete three writing-intensive courses, two of which are embedded into the major at the beginning/intermediate level and at the capstone level.

Writing Across Curriculum Resources from WAC Co-Directors Kris Deffenbacher and Catheryn Jennings

• Specs Grading

Specification grading integrates aspects of mastery grading (meeting proficiency before continuing to the next topic), competency-based grading (expands on mastery but allows students to determine the level of competency met by selecting specific assessments to complete), and contract grading (students negotiate a contract with the instructor to complete specific amount or type of assessments) to ensure students meet the learning objectives for a course.  Interested? Here are some resources to continue your journey. 

• • Specs Grading Primer (from Emily Esola) - a good start on why and how

  • HU CTL Workshop (summer 2021) - Mael Embser-Herbert and Curt Lund (moderated by Letitia Basford) - video

    • Chat from the HU CTL Workshop (summer 2021)

    • Slides from Curt Lund and from Mael Embser-Herbert

    • Sample course materials (Curt Lund): policy on spec grading; self-grading worksheet; assignment examples

• Making Assessment/Grading Fun
  Funning Up Your Assessment - Strategies and Tips from Sarah Hick (Spring 2022) and as slides

• Transparent Assignments
  Checklist for transparent assignments
  Six awesome examples of assignment makeover from different disciplines

• Pedagogy of Hope - Engaging students in high impact learning - Kathy Burleson - Spring 2023

• Integrating High Impact Practices Into Curriculum - AACU HIPs HU Team - Fall 2023

• "Hamlinizing" High Impact Pedagogy - eight elements of  HIPs - Alina Oxendine, Sarah Greenman, Stacie Bosley - January 2024

• Hamlinizing HIPs: Next Steps - Alina Oxendine and Sarah Greenman - Fall 2024

• Eight Elements of HIPs - Kuh and O'Donnell (AACU)

• HIP rubric for assignments and courses - from Weber University

• Resources from Hamline Summer 2024 HIPs Workshop

  • Robin Shofield (RoJo Solutions) - High Impact Design and Delivery

  • High Impact Practices (from Sarah Greenman and Alina Oxendine)

• Gen AI Resources from Irina Makarevitch - Slides; Notes and Resources - Spring 2024

• Hamline AI Guidelines/Recommendations for the Use of AI

• AI resources for students (from AACU)

• AI Resources for Faculty and Staff (Books, ideas, questions) - Spring 2025 - From Marcela Kostihova and Irina Makarevitch

• Sustainability and AI Resources (from Josh Gumiela) - Spring 2025 - AI in the Wild: Sustainability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (book); AI and CO2 emissions (article)

• AI bias: Fairness and Bias in Artificial Intelligence: A Brief Survey of Sources, Impacts, and Mitigation Strategies (article) and AI ethics - from Josh Gumiela - both have tons of additional references

• Hamline Connect Resources Slides - Michelle Benegas - Spring 2024
  Are you currently working with community partners.  Please consider letting us know about your collaborations here 

• Community-engaged Teaching and Learning - Introducing Riipen
  Jermaine Singleton - Slides

• Team-Based Learning in Biology - Jodi Goldberg and Irina Makarevitch (Spring 2022)

• Learning About Learning: Refining Your Goals - Stacie Bosley and Irina Makarevitch (Fall 2023)

• Learning About Learning: Serving All Students - Irina Makarevitch (Spring 2023)

The Hamline Canvas Resources site contains resources and tutorials for utilizing Canvas and Canvas Outcomes, teaching online, student resources, workshop dates and trainings.

• Consistency in Canvas as an Equity Tool - Linnette Werner and Stacie Bosley (Spring 2022)

• Canvas Tricks and Tips