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Teaching Tips

Tips on Teaching, developed by the Instructional Development Program at the University of Oklahoma. These include:

Getting Ready To Teach
Different Ways of Teaching
Evaluation Issues
Higher Level Learning And Active Learning

Teaching Tips, a collection of on-line documents compiled by the Illinois State University Center for the Advancement of Teaching.  The documents discuss a variety of pedagogical subjects including:

Active & Student Centered Learning
Class Discussion
Learning Styles
Teaching, Grading & Assessment
Writing Assignments

The CAT web site also contains an extensive list of on-line resources on Assessment.

The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University has developed several on-line documents relating to teaching issues.  These include:

Encouraging Students in a Racially Diverse Classroom
Sensitivity to Women to the Contemporary Classroom
Responding to Response Papers
Grading Papers

A Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence, teaching tips contributes by faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.  The extensive list of topics includes:

Discussing Points of View Other Than Your Own
Encouraging Class Discussion
Inviting Students to Share their Knowledge and Experiences
Knowing if the Class is Understanding You

Excerpts from Tools for Teaching, written by Barbara Gross Davis of the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Richard M. Felder of North Carolina State University has written extensively on effective teaching.  His areas of focus are Active and Cooperative Learning and Learning Styles.  Most of his Education Publications are available on-line.

Teaching Tips, developed by the Teaching & Learning Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  These include:

101 Things You Can Do the First Three Weeks of Class
Chalkboard Skills
Teaching Students to Take Better Notes

Teaching Handbooks, published by the Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning at Brown University.  The handbooks include:

Teaching to Variation in Learning
Teaching and Persuasive Communication: Class Presentation Skills
Constructing a Syllabus
The Teaching Portfolio

10 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About College Teaching, by Lee F. Seidel of the University of New Hampshire.

Guidelines for Evaluating Teaching and Questions Frequently Asked About Student Ratings Forms:  Summary of Research Findings, both developed at the University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching.

Brief Summary of Best Practices in College Teaching, compiled by Tom Drummond at North Seattle Community College. The list contains summaries of effective teaching techniques on topics including:

Rewarding Learner Participation
Active Learning Strategies
Foster Learner Self-Responsibility

Quick Guides developed by the University of Minnesota Center for Teaching and Learning Services.  These are brief descriptions of pedagogical topics such as:

Active Learning
Grading Systems
Teaching Portfolios

IDEA Papers, a series of papers developed by Kansas State University's IDEA Center.  The papers are in PDF format. Topics include:  Improving Discussions, Asking and Answering Questions, Focusing on Active Meaningful Learning, and Appraising Teaching Effectiveness:  Beyond Student Ratings.

Classroom Assessment Techniques, an excerpt from Classroom Assessment Techniques A Handbook for College Teachers by Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross.

The Active Learning Bibliography, Compiled by the University of South Florida's Center for Teaching Enhancement.  The bibliography lists thousands of published articles on the use of active learning strategies in higher education.

Charles C. Bonwell's Active Learning Site, which includes bibliographies of resources on active learning and active learning internet links.

The Instructional Innovation Network, which has pages devoted to cooperative learning and case teaching.  The pages include articles on research, teaching materials, and links to further resources.

Collaborative Learning Small Group Learning Page, maintained by the National Institute for Science Education College Level One Team at the University of Wisconsin.  Designed to support work of post-secondary SMET faculty.

The Samford Problem-Based Learning Initiative, maintained by Samford University's Problem-Based Learning Project.

Problem-Based Learning at the University of Delaware, maintained by their PBL project


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Other On-Line Resources

The Theory Into Practice Database, a collection of brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education, which includes the Higher Education Library, containing informational documents for those involved in postsecondary education, and the Higher Education Syllabus Project, a collection of syllabi from higher education courses at programs around the country.

The National Teaching & Learning Forum, a newsletter on teaching.  The NTLF Library contains a list of Selected Resources on Teaching and Learning; some are articles contributed by teaching and learning centers and are available in full-text on the Internet.

A list of resources on Intellectual Property and Copyright Information, compiled by the Pacific Lutheran University Center for Teaching and Learning.

MIR's Faculty Online, a resource for textbook data, including lists of top-selling titles by course and discipline.


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