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Last Updated: 01.24.2002

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
 

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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

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Teaching Tips
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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)

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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.

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Teaching Journals and Publications
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Miscellaneous
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