Resources

"A short bulleted check list of good teaching practices to get a course off to a good start. "

Effective teachers appear again and again to display certain characteristics, while ineffective teachers tend to make the same mistakes repeatedly.

TIAA-CREF Institute report by Adrianna Kozar. Looks at the decline of full-time tenure-track faculty positions and outlines four new faculty workforce models: adjunct, full-time non tenure-track, medical/clinical, and for-profit/online.

Link from Portland State University, Center for Academic Excellence. Focuses on PSU tenure and promotion guidelines but samples and suggestions for tailoring the portfolio may be helpful to those without such guidelines. Describes elements of teaching portfolio, community outreach portfolio, research portfolio, and professional development. portfolio.

Click Here for Book Review Abstract: Sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), this one-of-a-kind book demonstrates the best tools, resources, and techniques for discovering, selecting, and integrating interactive open educational resources (OERs) into the teaching and learning process. The author examines many of the best repositories and digital library websites for finding high quality materials, explaining in depth the best practices for effectively searching these repositories and the various methods for evaluating, selecting, and integrating the resources into the instructor’s curriculum and course assignments, as well as the institution’s learning management system. (From the Publisher)

Here are the highest teaching goals to remind you that great teaching is more than a handful of teaching tricks strung together with modest aims and sufficient expertise in your field.

Overall, there are a number of reasons why using clicker questions in a large lecture class makes sense. When used effectively, clickers can help the students become actively engaged in the lecture and help them learn the material better. Click it to stick it!

The story is a familiar one across college campuses:students stay up late into the night cramming weeks’ worth of material into one study session before the big exam, only to forget the material as soon as the exam is over.

When students ask for studying advice, what should we tell them?

In tiered classrooms (also sometimes called differentiated classrooms), the instructor’s approaches to teaching content and evaluating student performance are adjusted to accommodate for the diversity of students’ readiness, degree of interest, and learning profiles.