Guides/Professional
Teaching Resources (University of Vermont)
http://www.uvm.edu/ctl/
This course planning and management site contains links to materials
on how humans learn, on writing the syllabus, critical thinking/learning
styles, planning & teaching your course, teaching online, evaluation,
plagiarism, writing across the curriculum, technology & teaching,
and more.
Teaching
Resource Center: Teaching Tips (University of Virginia)
http://trc.virginia.edu/Publications/Teaching_Concerns/TC_Topic.htm
Many useful guides are available here--from Course Development and
Design, Learning Styles, Dealing with Unprepared Students, Teaching
Portfolios, etc.
Center
for Teaching Resources (UMass CFT)
http://www.umass.edu/cft/resources.htm
This site contains links to the "Ten Best Articles on Teaching and
Learning," "Books on Teaching and Learning," "Handbook for Teaching
Assistants," etc.
A
Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence
(UC Berkeley)
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/compendium/
"The ideas in the Compendium have been expanded and incorporated
into a book, Tools for Teaching," which is available in the
Faculty Center.
Instructional
Tools and Strategies (Emerson College)
http://www.emerson.edu/itg/tools/index.cfm
This page includes links to guides on integrating Blogs, Images,
Evaluation, Wiki's, etc. in a course. Our Center
for Instructional Technology (CIT) can help with some of the
technical aspects of these applications.
A
Brief Summary of the Best Practices in Teaching (Tom
Drummond, North Seattle Community College)
http://northonline.sccd.ctc.edu/eceprog/bstprac.htm
Foundation for Critical
Thinking
The website features reports, articles, and professional development
opportunities all centered around critical thinking. The site features
an online bookstore, however a great deal of the content is freely
available. Numerous workshops and courses are described on the site.
There is also a link to recent news and analysis on teaching practice.
International
Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/
From the Center for Excellence
in Teaching at Georgia Southern University, a peer-reviewed journal
that serves as an "international vehicle for articles, essays,
and discussions about the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL)
and its applications in higher/tertiary education today."
Plagiarism
(Contributed by Corinne Ebbs, Library)
http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/Plagiarism.htm
Here find general web sites on plagiarism (and how to avoid it)
as well as common sources of copied materials, articles on the topic,
detection services, and sites providing students with information
on avoiding plagiarism.
The
Nature and Structure of Scientific Models (Contributed
by Buzz Hoagland, Biology)
http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/ncisla/publications/reports/Models.pdf
From the National Center for Improving Student Learning and Achievement
in Mathematics and Science.
Mathematical
and Educational Quotation Server at Westfield State College
(Collected by Julian Fleron, Mathematics)
http://www.wsc.ma.edu/math/faculty/fleron/quotes/
This is a searchable database compiled by
Julian Fleron who describes it as follows: "For ten years I have
begun each of my classes with a quotation. It is my way of
getting students thinking before we get started. Often the
quote is mathematical in nature. But just as often it is about
education, learning, life, etc."
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