Resources for Faculty and Instructors
TILT's Teaching Effectiveness Initiative (TEI) Program
» Teaching Effectiveness Framework Webpages
Discover the Teaching Effectiveness Framework (TEF) at CSU: Learn evidence-based practices, enhance student success in your classroom, and foster your professional growth as an educator. This set of seven essential, interrelated domains are designed to develop teaching practices and improve student learning. Explore resources, tools, and support to improve your teaching and join a community dedicated to excellence in education.
» TILT’s Recommended Process for Annual Review of Teaching
Optimize your teaching evaluations with TILT’s Recommended Process for Annual Review of Teaching. Access comprehensive guidelines, resources, and evidence-based practices to enhance your instructional methods and support your professional growth. By diving deeper into one domain at a time, it will positively impact other domains of teaching through repetition and continuous reflection.
Professional Development
Complete any of TILT’s 13 evidence-based, 3-week, online courses for effective teaching practices across 7 domains
Advance your teaching prowess with opportunities tailored for faculty, instructors, and GTA’s
Elevate your teaching with TILT’s workshops, conferences, and sessions designed for transformative learning
Join for collaborative observation and growth-oriented feedback from your peers with an agreed-upon set of norms
CSU’s Master Teacher Initiative includes all 8 colleges for collaborative growth and a culture of valued pedagogy
Share a passion for something you know how to do and collaborate with others to enhance your skills to do it better
What is the difference between the TEF and the TEI?
The CSU Teaching Effectiveness Framework (TEF) defines the seven domains of effective teaching and provides evidence-based teaching practices to support faculty in their teaching.
Each TEF domain provides a collection of evidence-based teaching practices and reflection tools to help instructors develop their teaching.
The Teaching Effectiveness Initiative (TEI) Program recognizes instructors for implementing the evidence-based practices of the TEF and reflecting on the impact they have on student success.
Upon completion of professional development experiences, integration, and completion of reflections equivalent to ten domain experience units (DEU’s), faculty earn domain certificate milestones, which are recognized and honored by the Office of the Provost.
Teaching Resources
» Assessment and Gradescope
Valuable information about resources like Respondus LockDown Browser, grading of bubble sheet (Scantron) exams with Gradscope, and external exam preparation resources
» Syllabus Template
Streamline your syllabus: Use this recommended syllabus structure to ensure necessary and recommended content is covered
» Closed Captioning & Inclusive Design
Enhance classroom accessibility with TILT’s caption support services and learn how, and when, to make materials inclusive for closed captioning
» Affordable Content and OER
Explore TILT’s open educational resources for cost-effective learning solutions like Day-One Access Program, Unizin, and more
Graduate Teaching
Academic Success
Undergraduate Opportunities
» Undergraduate Research at CSU
» MURALS (Multicultural Undergraduate Research Art and Leadership Symposium)
Providing a platform for undergraduate students with marginalized identities to showcase their scholarly work
» Learning Assistants (LA’s)
» Scholarships and Fellowship
Helping students find local, national, and international external awards that enables students to pursue academic or professional growth.
