Resources

Some tips for encouraging your students to come to office hours, and to make their time there more effective

A good question is both answerable and challenging, inspiring analysis, synthesis, interpretation, and critical thinking.

What technology should you include in your teaching, and how should it be incorporated into the rest of the course structure?

"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!