Resources
One way we offer support to faculty is through curation of resources. This page offers you with a mix of resources we created for you, our previous workshop recordings, and a few external gems.
Faculty Success
General teaching and learning
Workshops
- Workshop - Alternative Grading Across Disciplines
- Workshop - Community, Engagement, and Feedback in Online Learning Environments
- Workshop - Neuromyths: What Are They and Why Do They Matter?
- Workshop - Exploring Alternative Grading
- Workshop - Teaching with Storylines: Long-form Gamification in the Classroom
- Full list of previous workshops
Guides
Inclusion & community
Inclusive Syllabus
Course design for inclusion
- Workshop - An Introduction to OER: free and customizable course materials
- Bitesize Workshop - Inclusive Course Policies Enhancing Student Success
- Bitesize Workshop - Exploring Alternative Grading
- Bitesize Workshop - Promoting Inclusion and Belonging in the Classroom
- Workshop - Writing Inclusive Questions that Elicit Teamwork and Critical Thinking
- Workshop - What Makes Teaching Inclusive to Student Learning?
- Workshop - Walk the Talk: Design (and Teach) an Equitable, Diverse, and Inclusive Course
- Workshop - Decolonize Your Classroom: A Case Study for Inclusive Teaching
- Workshop - Detox Your Textbook with Open Educational Resources
Anti-racist pedagogy and allies
- VCU Guide to Writing Anti-Racism Syllabus Statements
- Workshop - Beyond Tolerance: Strengthening White Allyship in Education
- Workshop - Inclusion (and “diversity”) vs. anti-racist pedagogy: Not Another “Diversity” Talk
Student accessibility and wellness
- Best Practices for Disability in Higher Education
- Bitesize Workshop - Introducing the New Student Accessibility and Educational Opportunity (SAEO) Faculty Outreach Initiative
- Workshop - Designing Equitable and Inclusive Clinical Case Studies
- Bitesize Workshop - Inclusive Zoom Practices
- Workshop - Creating an Accessible and Inclusive Virtual Classroom
- Workshop - Faculty First Responders: Supporting Student Wellness
- Faculty Guide to VCU Student Support Resources
Inclusive engagement and community
- Workshop - Building inclusivity in large or small classes using POGIL pedagogy
- Workshop - Student Engagement and Full Participation for an Inclusive Classroom
- Workshop - Structuring your class to create inclusion, community and connection: Lessons learned through online teaching
- Workshop - Inclusive Teaching Practices to Build a Learning Community
Responding to difficult moments
Identity and supporting marginalized students
- Workshop - Can We Talk About Race?
- Workshop - Role of African American Families on Learning Experiences of Students and Student Success
- Bitesize Workshop - Considerations for Supporting First-Generation Student Success
- Workshop - Privilege and Interactive Pedagogy: Centering Students' Ways of Being and Knowing with Peggy McIntosh
- Workshop - Seeing the Invisible: Supporting Students of Color in Times of Instability and Crisis
- Workshop - Creating Identity Safe (virtual) Learning Spaces
- Workshop - Supporting International Student Success
- Workshop - Supporting Students with Diverse Language Backgrounds
More resources
Faculty well-being
Guides
Recorded Sessions
- Work-Life Integration: How to use the Immunity-to-Change Methodology
- Re-member Who You Are. Remain True to Who You Are Becoming
- Appreciative Inquiry - A Way of Being and Doing
- Making Invisible Work Visible in the Academy - A Wellness Imperative
- The Ripple Effect of Mindfulness
- BIPOC Faculty Building a Mentoring Community
- Aligning Faculty Time and Priorities with Dr. KerryAnn O'Meara
- Wellness in Real Time
- Conflicts are boiling over: Can we lower the temperature?
- Gratitude and Positivity: Informal Student Feedback and Classroom Climate
- Caring for Self While Caring for Family
- Relearn to Relax
- Better Nights Ahead
- Mindfulness in the Classroom
Career planning & mentoring
Mentoring
- Workshop - BIPOC Faculty Building a Mentoring Community
- Workshop - The Mentor Map: Identifying Your Network
Promotion to Full Professor
Time and setting goals
- Workshop - Aligning Faculty Time and Priorities with Dr. KerryAnn O'Meara
- Workshop - Career Goals and Building Your Network
Navigating promotion workshop series
- Workshop - Navigating Promotion Series: Writing a Compelling Service Narrative
- Workshop - Navigating Promotion Series: Writing a Compelling Scholarship Narrative
- Workshop - Navigating Promotion and Tenure as a Community-Engaged Scholar
- Workshop - Navigating Promotion Series: Writing a Compelling Teaching Narrative
Promotion and/or tenure
- Workshop - Promotion & Tenure
- Workshop - External Reviewers for Promotion: How to Cultivate Your List
- Workshop - Documenting COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts on Diverse Faculty Careers
- Workshop - Making Invisible Work Visible in Academia
Mid-career faculty
- Workshop - Term Faculty Panel of Full Professors: Experiences Navigating Promotion to Full
- Workshop - Promotion to Full Professor: Making The Case for National Prominence
- Workshop - Mid-Career Term Faculty: Let's Talk Promotion
Tools
- Tips for tracking CTLE participation for annual review, tenure, promotion
- CTLE individual participation tracking template (you will be prompted to make a copy)
Writing & scholarship
Getting started
- Workshop - Turning Your Dissertation into (at least 1) Journal Article
- Workshop - Establishing Your Publishing Pipeline with Keynote Katie Linder
Planning/goal setting
- Workshop - #BeginAgain: Prioritize Your Writing Goals
- Workshop - Get Priorganized Part I: Planning a Realistic Summer Schedule
- Workshop - Get Priorganized Part II: Mapping A Realistic Summer Schedule
- Workshop - Writing Productivity Strategies & Planning
- Workshop - Planning for a Productive Break: Strategies and Tips for Success with Katie Linder
- Workshop - Individual Development Plan with Sharon Zumbrunn
Writing communities
- Workshop - Embracing the Writing Feedback Process
- Workshop - Build Your Village: Finding Social Support for Your Writing
- Workshop - Exploring Authorship and Collaborative Research Panel
Tackling obstacles
Experiential learning
Using games
- Workshop - Teaching with Storylines: Long-form Gamification in the Classroom
- Workshop - Reflective Student Journaling to Improve Learning Outcomes and Evaluations
- Workshop - Using Peer Evaluation to Increase Student Ownership of Learning
- Workshop - Teaching with Video Games
- Bitesize Workshop - Dipping Your Toes into Classroom Gamification
- Workshop - Using Gamification to Improve Student Engagement
Student engagement techniques
- Bitesize Workshop: Pedagogic Ambiguity: How to Strategically Leverage Ambiguity to Enhance Student Learning
- Bitesize Workshop: Overcoming "Discussion Block": Simple Strategies to Ignite Class Discussion
- Workshop - Choose Your Own Adventure!: Re-engaging Students through Curricular Design
- Bitesize Workshop - Course Design for Student Engagement
- Workshop - Design Thinking: Engaging Students Through Team-based, Project-based Learning
- Workshop - Peer Evaluation in Team-Based Learning
- Workshop - Writing Inclusive Questions that Elicit Teamwork and Critical Thinking
- Workshop - Photovoice and Participatory Learning
- Workshop -Improv for Wellness and Joy
- Workshop - Critical Reflection Strategies for Experiential Learning
- Workshop - Be Yourself!: The Importance of Social Presence in Online/Remote Teaching
- Workshop - Glocal and Virtual Global Opportunities for Faculty
- Workshop - Building Community in Virtual Learning Spaces
- Workshop - Make online learning RIF: Relevant, Interesting, Fun
Guides
VCU Offices
Teaching across modalities
Using tech for projects
- Workshop - Designing and Assigning Digital Media Projects
- Workshop - Why and How ePortfolios Work
- Workshop - Designing Equitable Multimedia Projects For Remote Instruction
Teaching tools
Using other specific tools in teaching
- Workshop - Techy Teaching Show'n Tell
- Workshop - Teaching with Video Games
- Workshop - Jammin' with Jamboard
- Workshop - Engaging Students with Nearpod
- Workshop - Enhancing Understanding of Mathematical and Scientific Concepts with Jupyter Notebooks
- Workshop - TakeBreakMake Google Suite!
VCU Support Units
Scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL)
- Workshop - IRB Considerations for SOTL
- Workshop - Getting focused: Using SOTL to solve a teaching problem
- Workshop - Evidence-based Teaching: How SOTL Can Help
- Workshop - Let’s get SoTLing! An introduction to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Workshop - How to get started: A panel discussion on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL)
- Workshop - How to make the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Count for Your Tenure and Promotion
- Workshop - SOTL 102: Focused Questions and Study Design for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Workshop - SOTL 101: What is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning?
- Panel Discussion: How can I do that? Getting Involved With the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Free e-book: Writing about Teaching and Learning (Elon University Center for Engaged Learning)
VCU Friends and Collaborators in Faculty Support
- Video introductions of VCU Faculty Support Units
- VCU Libraries
- Inclusive Excellence
- Office of Multicultural Student Affairs
- VCU Online for Faculty
- Academic Technologies
- Office of Research and Innovation
- Student Accessibility and Educational Opportunity (SAEO)
- Center for Community Engagement and Impact
- Relevant, Experiential and Applied Learning (REAL)
- Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry
- Student Success
- School of Medicine Faculty Development
- Health Promotion and Well-Being Center (The Well)
- Global Education Office