Faculty Resources

The Center for Faculty Development provides a variety of printable resources to faculty, including forms, guidelines, and information sheets on a number of teaching and learning related topics. If you are looking for something that is not listed below, please contact us for assistance. If you would like to discuss any of the resources below with a Center for Faculty Development consultant, please complete our online consultation request form.

Permission is granted to educational institutions to print copies of Center for Faculty Development documents for internal use, provided that each copy acknowledges the authorship of the Center for Faculty Development. Online copies are not permitted, but links to our site are encouraged.

Quick Reference Documents 

• Key contacts for SU faculty 
• Internal faculty funding opportunities
• Faculty Titles document
• Example agreements for meetings  

Course Design

• Syllabus template (revised September 2013)
  • Syllabus example  
   
• Presentation on constructive alignment  
• Examples of learning outcomes  
• Bloom's Taxonomy (revised 2001)  
• Bloom's Taxonomy: Model questions and key words  
• Linking learning outcomes to graded work  
• Linking learning outcomes to learning and teaching activities  

Core Curriculum Revision

• Presentation on course design strategies  
• Step-by-step: Designing courses for the revised Core  
• Core course proposals forms are on the Core Curriculum revision website  
• Course-by-course: one-page summaries of course descriptions, learning objectives, and essential pedagogies

Bibliographies

• Academic leadership
• Mid-career faculty

 Deep Approaches to Learning
(learn more here)

• Summary: approaches to learning
• Extract: four components of a deep approach to learning
• Worksheet: reducing course design features that cause a surface approach to learning
• Worksheet: increasing course design features that cause a deep approach to learning

Example Mid-Term
Student Course Evaluation Forms

We encourage you to adapt these forms to suit your own context and the kinds of questions you would like students to answer. Each link opens an MS Word document in a new window.

• Class reaction survey
• Constructive statements 
• Discussion/Seminar opinion form
• Six open-ended questions
• Teacher behaviors inventory 
• Three open-ended questions
• Creating your own survey form

Analyzing Course Evaluation Comments

We encourage you to save yourself some time by using these two documents below to structure your course evaluation analysis so that you can make good decisions based on real data. Both links open an MS Word document in a new window.

• Evaluation comment sorting tool: Items within my control
• Evaluation comment sorting tool: Items outside my control 

 Examples of Rubrics

• Essay rubric: holistic (Penn State U)
• Essay rubric: analytic (U of Wyoming)
• Argument Analysis rubric: holistic (Central Florida U)
• Debate rubric: analytic (Purdue U)
• Scientific papers: analytic (PJ Alaimo and J Langenhan, Seattle U )
• Class participation: analytic (B Kelly and T Huston, Seattle U)
• Annotated bibliographies: analytic (J Bean, Seattle U)
• Application of theory: analytic (D Green, UCE Birmingham, UK)
• Practical Proposal: analytic (J Bean, Seattle U)
• Public argument: analytic (J Bean, Seattle U)