Teaching Resources

• Grinnell College Advisor's Handbook
   
• Grinnell College Resources for Faculty Advisors (available on Grinnellshare -- login required)
   
• Rose, Colleen (2020). Advising as Teaching. The Power of Evidence-Based Teaching Practices in Academic Advising. NACADA.

• 2025 Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence (Elon University)
   
• Bruff, Derek, curator (2025). Integrating AI into Assignments to Support Student Learning. Collection of articles on the UVA Teaching Hub website. Part of the larger set of curated collections, Generative AI in Teaching and Learning.
   
• Fritts, Megan (2025). A Matter of Words. What Can University AI Committees Actually Do? The Point.
   
• O'Connell, Derek (2025). How Are Students Really Using AI? The Chronicle of Higher Education.
   
• Simpson, Erik (2023). ChatGPT (And Its Relatives) and College Writing: A Quick Guide for Students.
   
• Tracy, Andi, Grinnell College (2025). Academic Honesty and AI at Grinnell (PDF).
   
• Watkins, Marc (2025). Your Students Need an AI-Aware Professor. The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Howard, Jay (2023). How to Hold a Better Class Discussion. The Chronicle of Higher Education.

• Bali, Maha (2018). The "Unbearable' Exclusion of the Digital. In Disrupting the Digital Humanities, edited by Jesse Stommel and Dorothy Kim. Punctum Books.
   
• Bruff, Derek (2019). Intentional Tech. Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching. Morgantown, WV. West Virginia University Press.
   
• Cordell, Ryan (2015). How Not to Teach Digital Humanities. Blog post.
   
• Di Pressi, Haley, et al (2015). A Student Collaborators' Bill of Rights. Archived version. Hum-Tech UCLA.
   
• Earhart, Amy E. (2018). Can We Trust the University? Digital Humanities Collaborations with Historically Exploited Cultural Communities. Bodies of Information, edited by Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont, University of Minnesota Press.
   
• Frost Davis, Rebecca, Matthew K. Gold, Katherine D. Harris, and Jentery Sayers, eds. (2020). Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities. Concepts, Models, and Experiments. MLA DH Commons.
   
• Frazier, Nishani, et al. (2023). Black is Not the Absence of Light: Restoring Black Visibility and Liberation to Digital Humanities. In Debates in the Digital Humanities. Matthew Gold and Lauren Klein, eds. University of Minnesota Press.
   
• Gilliard, Chris (2020). Pedagogy and the Logic of Platforms. In Open at the Margins, Maha Bali et al., eds. Rebus Community.
   
• Risam, Roopika (2018). Decolonizing the Digital Humanities in Theory and Practice. In The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities, Jentery Sayers, ed. Routledge.
   
• Stommel, Jesse, Chris Friend, and Sean Michael Morris (2020). Critical Digital Pedagogy: A Collection. Hybrid Pedagogy.

• Indiana University of Pennsylvania Center for Teaching Excellence (2025). Improving Learning in Small Classes.
   
• Jenkins, Rob (2021). 6 Things We Can't Afford to Lose When Campus Life Resumes. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
   
• Selingo, Jeff (2022). Reimagining the University. Beyond the Return to Normal in the Decade Ahead (PDF). Kaplan.

• Addy, Tracie Marcella, Derek Duke, Khadijah A. Mitchell, and Mallory E. SoRelle (2021). What Inclusive Instructors Do. Principles and Practices for Excellence in College Teaching. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.
   
• Barr, Jason J. (2016). Developing a Positive Classroom Climate (PDF). IDEA Paper # 61. 
   
• Hockings, Christine (2010). Inclusive Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: A Synthesis of Research (PDF). EvidenceNet Higher Education Academy.
   
• Sathy, Viji, and Kelly A. Hogan (2019). How to Make Your Teaching More Inclusive. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 
   
• Sinnett, Laura M., Cecilia Knight, Tess Kulstad, Maure Smith-Benanti, Miho Tatsuki (2019). Ideas for Inclusive Teaching Practices (PDF). [requires Grinnell College network access]
   
• Stentiford, Lauren, and George Koutsouris (2021). What Are Inclusive Pedagogies in Higher Education? A Systematic Scoping Review. Studies in Higher Education (Vol. 46, No. 11), 2245-2261.
   
• Tanner, Kimberly D. (2013). Structure Matters: Twenty-One Teaching Strategies to Promote Student Engagement and Cultivate Classroom Equity. CBE—Life Sciences Education (Vol. 12, 322-331).

• Grinnell College Protocol for Effective Peer Observations (PDF). (2025)
   
• Peer Observation of Teaching. Grinnell College Presidential Task Force on Evaluating Teaching Excellence (PDF). (2025)
   
• Peer Observation of Teaching Note-Taking Guide (PDF). (2025)
   
• Peer Observation Combined Resources 2025 (PDF).

• Grinnell College Office of Analytic Support and Institutional Research (2017). Academic Success: Barriers and Strategies. A Qualitative Study of Students Who Have Improved Their Academic Performance (PDF).
   
• Grinnell College Office of Analytic Support and Institutional Research (2018). Paths and Motivations for Major Choice. A Multi-Methods Study of How Students Choose Their Majors (PDF).
   
• Head, Alison J., Barbara Fister, Steven Geofrey, and Kirsten Hostetler (2024). How Information Worlds Shape Our Response to Climate Change. Project Information Literacy Findings Report.

• Grinnell College Academic Success Center (2025). Resources for Students. 
   
• MacAlester College Wellbeing Initiative (2021). Low-cost strategies for syllabus statements, assignments, class time, and advising: Suggestions from colleagues.
   
• Washington University Center for Teaching and Learning (2025). Promoting Student Well-Being in Learning Environments (PDF).

• Gannon, Kevin (2018). How to Create a Syllabus. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
   
• Grinnell College (2025-26; version 7). Syllabus Design Guidelines (PDF).

• Finley, Ashley (2021).  How College Contributes to Workforce Success  (PDF). ACC&U and Hanover Research.
   
• Center for Careers, Life, and Service, Grinnell College (2021). Post-Graduation Activities Report, Class of 2021 (PDF).
   
• Center for Careers, Life, and Service, Grinnell College (no date). Transferable Skills for Liberal Arts Students.

• Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, Carnegie Mellon University (2019). Make the Most of the First Day of Class.
   
• Kirk, Delaney J. (2018). Ten Tips for Dealing with Nervousness on the First Day of Class. Faculty Focus (Magna Publications).
   
• Lang, James (2024). How to Teach a Good First Day of Class. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
   
• Weimer, Maryellen (2018). The First Day of Class: A Once in a Semester Opportunity. Faculty Focus. The Teaching Professor Blog (Magna Publications).
   
• Vanderbilt Center for Teaching (nd). First Day of Class (PDF).