- Teaching Tips for Active Learning
- Tips for Effective Preparatory Assignments
- Tips for Creating and Delivering Effective Slide Presentations
- Teaching Tips for Flipping the Classroom
- When Technology Fails
- What Helps Students Learn in the Revised Curriculum
- Maximizing Student Learning When Lecturing
- Guidelines for Exam Question Writing and Reviewing
- Discussion Prompts and Prods
- Teaching on the Fly
- Case Discussion Questions
- Feedback that Sticks infographic
Additional Teaching Resources
- Teaching with Technology
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See our Educational Technology page for resources related to teaching with technology.
- Grading and Alignment
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This video gives an overview of grading, grading schemes and alignment. It is useful for designing a course and/or writing a syllabus.
- Board-Style Question Writing
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The following are resources to help faculty write Board-style questions.
NBME Published Resources
- An Introductory Tutorial is a self-paced interactive tutorial that provides a foundation for writing quality multiple-choice questions. This tutorial is designed to introduce some of the main principles of item writing to individuals who write questions for examinations in the field of medicine and across the range of health professions.
- Featured topics include:
- the anatomy of an item
- basic rules for writing good stems and options
- characteristics of a quality "best-answer" item
- writing items to assess clinical reasoning
- common item flaws
- strategies for evaluating test items
- The tutorial is organized into sections so that you can complete only a portion of it and easily return later; the entire tutorial takes about 45 minutes to complete.
NBME Manual: Constructing Written Test Questions for the Basic and Clinical Sciences
- This manual provides a general overview of topics such as item and vignette writing for the foundational and clinical sciences (concentrating on the recommended item type of one-best-answer), technical item flaws, item analysis, and other areas that should provide useful guidance to the health sciences test develo
- Anti-racism in Teaching
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Please visit the Applying Anti-Racism Principles in Teaching page to learn more and download the related Checklist that was created to support faculty teaching in SMHS programs.