General Teaching Resources
Teaching Philosophy
- Writing a Teaching Philosophy StatementA Dozen General Tips for Teaching Philosophies
- How To Write a Teaching Philosophy in 7 Steps (With Example)
- Writing Your Teaching Philosophy
Planning a Course
- Faculty Focus articles on Course Design
- Using the course syllabus
- Design & teach
- "Project Syllabus"
- Creating a Wecloming Syllabus
- The Purpose of the Syllabus
- Workload Estimator
- Video Resources
Planning an Online Course
- Canvas Overview and Program Outcomes
- Grading in Canvas
- Canvas Multiple Choice and Rubric Alignment
- Workload Estimator
Learning
Processes & Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
Environments
- New learning environments for the 21st century
- Retrofitting university learning spaces - YouTube
- The Collaborative Learning Center - YouTube
- Tips for Creating Online Study Groups
Evaluation
- Tips on writing the essay exam
- Students Riding on Coattails during Group Work? Five Simple Ideas to Try
Classroom Community & Management
- Six Check-in Ideas to Build Community in College Classrooms
- Preventing and Curtainling Troublesome Student Behaviors
- "What if Students Revolt?"
- Decision Tree: Student Request For Flexibility
Instruction: Strategies & Techniques
- The Ten Worst Teaching Mistakes
- Teaching Style Survey - Grasha-Reichmann
- Get to the Points
- How to Lecture: Teaching Tips for GAs
- Lecturing - This Vanderbilt University website is well worth a visit!
- Pedagogy Unbound-Practical strategies for today's classrooms
- Teaching Strategies for the Net Generation
- Inspiring Action - Start with Why
- Curiosity - the prime motivator
- A Self-Fueling Cycle of Learning
- NEA: Higher Education Best Practices-Teaching and Learning
- Lecture-Based Tutoring with Todd Easton
TED Speeches: Examples of Delivery Style and Presence
- Donald Sadoway: Missing link to renewable energy (15 minutes)
- Hans Rosling: The magic washing machine (9 minutes)
- Stephen Petranek: 10 ways (30 minutes)
- Isabel Behncke: Evolution's gift of play (7 minutes)
- Adora Svitak: What adults can learn (7 minutes)
- William Kamkwamba: The windmill (4 minutes)
- Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an agile mind (18 minutes)
- Erin McKean: Redefining the dictionary (16 minutes)
- Euvin Naidoo: Africa as an investment (20 minutes)
- Mae Jemison: Teaching arts & sciences together (21 minutes)
- Mark Bezos: A volunteer firefighter (4 minutes)
- Patricia Ryan: Don't insist on English! (10 minutes)
Covid-Specific Teaching Tips & Resources
- Tips for Teaching With Masks
- Why, Post-Pandemic, Your Campus Needs More ‘Super Courses’
- Reimagining Higher Education: The Post-Covid Classroom
- 7 Dos & Don’ts for Post-Pandemic Teaching With Technology
- The pandemic has called into question a host of generally accepted teaching practices (opinion)
- Universal Design for Learning After COVID-19