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Teaching Resources


Teaching & Learning Innovation has created an extensive list of resources to assist instructors in their teaching.

Active Learning & Engaged Teaching: This webpage contains a comprehensive list of our resources dedicated to active learning and engaged teaching.

Assessment: This webpage contains many resources to support the assessment work of experiential learning opportunities, or evaluation of teaching.

Adjunct Quick-Start Guide: We recognize that many different professionals decide to teach on a part-time adjunct basis for many different reasons, so Teaching & Learning Innovation, offers a variety of resources to support your success.

Campus Resources for Instructors: Across campus, there are several departments that offer assistance to faculty. To best support faculty with their own needs, as well as student needs, we have provided service/resource overviews and contact information for these offices on campus.

Experiential Learning: This webpage contains a comprehensive list of our resources dedicated to experiential learning. Experiential learning is an engaged learning process whereby students “learn by doing” and by reflecting on the experience. EL activities can include hands-on laboratory experiments, internships, practicums, field exercises, study abroad, undergraduate research and studio performances.

Faculty Central: Faculty Central is a portal designed to quickly connect faculty with the campus web resources they use most often.

Inclusive Teaching: This webpage contains a comprehensive list of our resources dedicated to inclusive teaching practices.

National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity: The University of Tennessee, Knoxville is a proud institutional member of the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD). The NCFDD is a nationally-recognized, independent organization that provides online career development and mentoring resources for faculty, staff, graduate students, and post-docs.

The Syllabus: On this page, you can find downloadable syllabus templates, best practices, checklists and tips.

Resources for Online Teaching: We have a variety of resources tailored to assist you in the online classroom.

Teaching During COVID-19: Our team of faculty development professionals are diligently working on resources and various support opportunities to assist faculty planning to teach in online, hybrid and face-to-face forms during the pandemic.

Teaching Fundamentals: Includes several resources tailored for faculty and graduate teaching assistants who are relatively new to teaching or for those wishing to brush up on the basics.