Promoting student growth
Developing student skill levels through scaffolding, a growth mindset, a positive class environment, aligned assessments, effective assignment descriptions, and transparent grading.
Developing student skill levels through scaffolding, a growth mindset, a positive class environment, aligned assessments, effective assignment descriptions, and transparent grading.
Foundational teaching principles, including course design, learning objectives, course alignment, assessment, and lesson structure.
Strategies for planning class discussions, including a positive class atmosphere, discussion norms, grading discussions, and acceptable sources of information.
Inclusivity considerations when designing courses and syllabi, including discussions about controversial topics.
An introduction to the CET Challenging Discussions series and the principles guiding its development.
Considerations to inform your decision on when, why, and how course materials and activities should be accomplished asynchronously or synchronously.
A step-by-step guide to access the Independent Review Resources for Online Teaching in Blackboard.
A syllabus checklist that can be utilized as a tool for course review using the lens of diversity and inclusion.
A template for creating a USC syllabus which can be downloaded and edited. This template contains the most recent version of the Statement on Academic and Support Systems.
This synchronous syllabus checklist was developed to include recommended course design practices relevant to most teaching environments at USC; it is editable so that schools may add or delete items to customize it to their needs.