Faculty Teaching Resources

Planning your course
Tips to keep in mind when planning your course

• Course Design Outline (PDF)
• Course Planning Spreadsheet (PDF)
• Course Design Presentation
• Academic Calendar
• Selecting a Textbook (PDF)

Syllabus

• Directions on crafting your syllabus (PDF)
• Writing a Syllabus - Altman and Cashin (PDF)
• Sample Syllabi
• Papers on Writing a Syllabus
• Students with Disabilities (includes sample disability accommodation statements)
• Example Academic Integrity/Accommodations for Students with Disabilities/Inclusivity Statement - Chris Schaffer, Associate Professor, BME, Associate Dean of the Faculty (PDF)
• Calling on Faculty to Support Our Mental Health (op-ed written by Cornell students regarding creating a syllabus statement around mental health and encouraging faculty to include such statements.) (PDF)

Academic Integrity

• The Code of Academic Integrity
• Creating an Academic Integrity Statement for Your Course (PDF)
• Acknowledging the Work of Others (from The Code of Academic Integrity  2006) (PDF)
• Examples of Violations (from The Code of Academic Integrity 2006) (PDF)
• Prevention of Academic Integrity Problems (from The Code of Academic Integrity 2006) (PDF)
• Sample of Department Policy: Computer Science

Lectures and Recitation Sections

• Tips to keep in mind when teaching (PDF)
• Absences - Yours or students (PDF)
• Students with Disabilities (Disability Accommodation Procedure for Students (PDF) / Universal Design for Instruction / Planning for Accessibility 
• Students in Distress Protocol (PDF)

Examinations

• Tips on Writing Exams (PDF)
• Course and Time Rosters
• Submitting Grades
  • General information on submitting grades and on deadlines
  • Detailed instructions for entering grades in the Faculty Center
• Evening Prelim Scheduling (PDF)
• Prelim and Final Exam Schedules
• Rules Final Examinations (PDF)
• University Grading System (PDF)

MTEI Equipment

MTEI has a wide range of technology and equipment available for loan. To view and borrow our wide range of selection of technology and equipment, please visit our MTEI Equipment Check-Out page.

MTEI Lending Library

The MTEI Library has a wide collection of materials on higher education teaching and other relevant topics available for faculty to borrow, with new material added frequently. We encourage you to browse through our listings, shown below, of books, MTEI papers, online links and MTEI presentations and use them as teaching resources and references:

• Books (General references on College teaching, Teaching innovations, Future teaching in engineering from National Academy of Engineering, Research, Outreach, and others).
• MTEI Papers (coauthored by MTEI's staff).
• Online resources and links
• MTEI Presentations

MTEI Workshops and Seminars

• Upcoming events
• Past events

Mid-Semester Evaluations

• Customization
• Interpretation 
• Standard Mid-Semester Survey by default for the following departments: AEP, BME, CEE, CHEME, ECE, MAE, MSE, SYSEN, ORIE
• By request for CS, BEE, EAS, INFO
• Courses can request custom questions

Suggestions for additional resources? Please, let us know.