Teaching
Basics
| If you are looking for some general tips, strategies that will help
you improve your teaching and prepare you for a teaching career beyond
Purdue, there are a number of resources available on the web that we think
that you might find useful. The websites have been divided into categories.
Click on a category to see the expanded lists. |
| University Teaching Academies
- These are websites that serve as good starting points to locate a variety
of different web based resources on teaching. |
| Teaching Portfolios
- The links below offer advice and examples for constructing teaching portfolios
(excerpts taken from the Arizona State
Teaching Academy Web Page). |
| Teaching Tips -
Following these links will take you to various university websites that
feature strategies and suggestions related to college teaching. Where available,
specific tables of contents and topics have been included. |
| Teaching Journals and Publications
- A list of journals published on-line, teacher's handbooks, and
various resources from other universities. |
| Miscellaneous
- A catch all of information that is available to you with a click of the
mouse. |
University
Teaching Academies
Purdue University - http://www.chem.purdue.edu/tacad/welcome.htm
Arizona State University - http://www.asu.edu/upfd/
Penn State University - http://www.psu.edu/celt/reviews.html#general
Teaching
Portfolios
Seven Principles of Portfolio Development - ATTIC Teaching
Improvement
Center, Temple University Advice specifically for Teaching Assistants
preparing their teaching portfolios.
http://www.temple.edu/ATTIC/portfolio.html
Center for Effective Teaching and Learning, University of Texas, El
Paso -
With links to on-line courses and teaching portfolios.
http://www.utep.edu/~cetal/portfoli/
What is a Teaching Portfolio? A Guidebook The Center for Teaching
Effectiveness, University of Texas at Austin- Detailed guidebook on the
topic, with examples and reference
http://www.utexas.edu/academic/cte/teachfolio.html
Getting Started guide for designing teaching portfolios, Center for
Excellence in Learning and Teaching, Pennsylvania State University - with
bibliography. http://www.psu.edu/celt/portfolio.html
Teaching Portfolio Bibliography - Center for the Advancement of Teaching,
Illinois State University - An extensive bibliography of texts related
to
teaching portfolios and evaluation.
http://www.ilstu.edu/depts/CAT/tpbiblio.htm
Deliberations, London Guildhall University - a UK-based group with a site
that links to teaching portfolio sites from around the world.
http://www.lgu.ac.uk/deliberations/portfolios/urls.html
"Close Reading Shakespeare: A Course Portfolio" by John Webster.
National Teaching and Learning Forum, Carnegie Chronicle -Here he
explains and evaluates his course at the University of Washington.
http://www.ntlf.com/html/lib/carnegie/84webster.htm
Resources on the Teaching Portfolio -Program in College Teaching,
University of Wyoming - A bibliography of resources.
http://grad.uwyo.edu/pict/Portref.htm
School of Education, University of Virginia - Examples of electronic
teaching portfolios.
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/curry/class/edlf/589_004/sample.html
A step-by-step guide to developing a teaching portfolio - Sheridan Center
for Teaching and Learning, Brown University -. Includes samples of
excerpts from portfolios.
http://sheridan-center.stg.brown.edu/publications/TeachingPortfolio.shtml
Teaching Portfolio of Bruce H. Wagner - An online portfolio by Bruce H.
Wagner, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University, Spring 1998.
http://orion.math.iastate.edu/wagner/Teaching_Portfolio.html
Teaching Resource Center, University of Virginia: Teaching Portfolios -
A
Selected Bibliography of articles and papers on teaching portfolios.
http://minerva.acc.Virginia.EDU:80/~trc/tport.htm
Planning Your Teaching Portfolio: A Brief Guide - Prepared for
Participants in the UNH Future Faculty Program, geared towards TA's, but
with a helpful list of resources. University of New Hampshire -
http://www.unh.edu/teaching-excellence/guide.html
Faculty Development Teaching Portfolios - Teaching Resource Center,
Univ. of Tennessee at Chattanooga - Examines various components
of
teaching portfolios, and includes references, suggested readings, and
related web sites.
http://www.utc.edu/Teaching-Resource-Center/PORTFO1.HTM
University of Wisconsin-Madison: Teaching Portfolios - General
description and outline of various sections of teaching portfolios.
http://www.wisc.edu/MOO/tfolio.evidence.html
University of Wisconsin-Madison: Evaluating Teaching Portfolios -
Explains criteria for evaluating teaching portfolios.
http://www.wisc.edu/MOO/tfolio.eval.html
Teaching Tips
Indiana University Teaching Resource Page
Academic Dishonesty and Cheating -
http://www.indiana.edu/~teaching/cheating.html
Discussions - http://www.indiana.edu/~teaching/faqdisc.html
Learning Student Names - http://www.indiana.edu/~teaching/names.html
Service Learning - http://www.indiana.edu/~teaching/faqserv.html
Teaching Large Classes - http://www.indiana.edu/~teaching/faqlarge.html
Improving Lecturing Skills Some Insight From Speech Communication -
http://www.indiana.edu/~teaching/lectskills.html
The Change Up in Lectures - http://www.indiana.edu/~teaching/changeups.html
Using Media in Classrooms - http://www.indiana.edu/~teaching/media.html
Planning or Revising a Course - http://www.indiana.edu/~teaching/planning.htm
Questions for Planning a Course - http://www.indiana.edu/~teaching/questplan.html
Group Skills Development Pledge -
http://www.indiana.edu/~teaching/groupskills.html
Group Work Self- Assessment -
http://www.indiana.edu/~teaching/group%20assessment.html
University of Iowa Teaching Ideas: -
http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Ecenteach/resources/tips.shtml
- A Great Beginning (How to deal with 10 unspoken questions from new students)
University of Nebraska Teaching Tips
What do on the First Day - http://www.unl.edu/teaching/FirstDay.html
Planning a College Course - http://www.unl.edu/teaching/PlanningCourse.html
What did you put in your syllabus - http://www.unl.edu/teaching/syllabus.html
Learning Students Names - http://www.unl.edu/teaching/Names.html
101 Things You Can Do the First 3 Weeks of Class
http://www.unl.edu/teaching/101ways.html
Questions for Lesson Plans - http://www.unl.edu/teaching/lessonplans.html
Question Types http://www.unl.edu/teaching/teachquestions.html
Chalkboard skills http://www.unl.edu/teaching/chalkboard.html
Teaching Students to Take Better Notes
http://www.unl.edu/teaching/notetakingtips.html
Tips on Teaching UC - Berkeley - http://uga.berkeley.edu/sled/bgd/teaching.html
Tools
for Teaching, Davis, B.G., Jossey-Bass; San Francisco, 1993. - A compendium
of
classroom-tested strategies and suggestions designed to improve the teaching
practices
of all college instructors, including beginning, mid-career, and senior
faculty members.
The book describes 49 teaching tools that cover both traditional practical
tasks--writing a
course syllabus, delivering an effective lecture--as well as newer, broader
concerns such
as responding to diversity on campus and coping with budget constraints.
Teaching
Journals and Publications
Miscellaneous
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