Resources

The actual program is limited to graduate students at the University of North Texas, but the website provides a helpful description of an online program to prepare graduate students for teaching roles in higher education by equipping them with teaching skills, knowledge about teaching strategies and peer support.

Brief overview of helpful ideas for learning and using students’ names, and why these are good teaching practices in any case.

Blog-like entries on a wide range of topics in higher education teaching, including: asynchronous learning, blended and flipped learning, assessment, classroom management, faculty evaluation, instructional design, and teaching with technology. A free site (and e-newsletter sign up) that is part of the family of Magna Publications. 

Provides a brief explanation and instructions for students to encourage them to learn to annotate while reading texts — produced by a state university writing center. 

Initial findings from this exploratory study indicate significant questions, such as: why does the focus of faculty work appear to shift and, in later career? How do the administrative and leadership roles often assumed by midlife and mid-career faculty affect other dimensions of faculty work? Is the level of work satisfaction of mid-career faculty a function of the job demands or of life assessment and career questioning? What roles do institutional context and disciplinary field play in the experiences and perceptions of the middle years of the academic life cycle?

Policies should encourage senior professors to engage in periodic review of their performance and professional goals and allow deans and department chairs to negotiate revised responsibilities are necessary to take fuller advantage of the gifts senior faculty can share with their institutions – and to ensure that senior faculty are treated fairly and consistently. 

Tools to prepare students to function effectively in teams. And support for faculty as they manage their students’ team experiences.

Assessments of student behavior in first- semester design experiences suggest that early team- based design projects can promote a team performance goal orientation that undermines students’ learning goals. In particular, we find that gender-correlated division of work can easily and unconsciously occur in these teams and that performance-oriented teams may be more likely to undermine womens’ learning goals then mens’ learning goals. We propose mechanisms to explain the effect and present results of promising interventions. 

An attempt to create a large-scale online database of university course syllabi as a platform for new research, teaching, and administrative tools. The goal is to improve our understanding of teaching, publishing, and intellectual history on a wide range of fronts.

A google docs wiki with effective questions to ask yourself when designing assignments for students when emergencies result in missing face-to-face meetings. Hosted by Suffolk University’s Center for Teaching and Scholarly Excellence. Includes links to other resources.