General
These are links that provide a broad array of teaching resources.
A Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence
This link is not necessarily designed with the first-time teaching assistant in mind, but rather for teaching assistants and teachers who are looking to improve upon their teaching, specifically their lecturing. This link offers a self-diagnostic test for users to identify their weaknesses, and directs users to the appropriate sections.
Teaching Resources
This link, from Ohio University’s Center for Writing Excellence, provides ideas for everything from how to develop good writing assignments to how to grade and comment on students’ written work. It also provides links to several other university writing centers.
Teaching Tips Index
Bookmark this link to click onto when you’ve had a rough day in the classroom. This feel-good, catch-all link contains helpful and reassuring short essays about nuts and bolts matters like course preparation as well as thought pieces on what makes for an effective teacher.
Teaching Resource Center: Teaching Tips
Another encyclopedic link, this one hails from the University of Virginia’s Teaching Resource Center. It contains pragmatic classroom management/assignment ideas that can be implemented immediately as well as other essays on effective teaching to mull over. Good place to start if you’re about to start teaching and preparing your own course.
Teaching Strategies, Topics, Resources
Though not as comprehensive, this link largely echoes the information found on UVA’s website (see above), with a few added components on how to develop and use teaching portfolios as well as how to supervise your own teaching assistants.
Course Preparation
This page provides resources for how to prepare your course.
Ice Breaker
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Planning Guide
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Guide for New Teachers
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University of Chicago
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Lectures
Delivering Lectures
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Labs
Virtual Laboratory (University of Oregon)
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Teaching and Evaluation
One of the challenges of teaching is how to evaluate students fairly and accurately. The following links provide a starting point for constructing tests and quizzes and assessing student work.
Tips for Constructing Tests
This article gives some practical guidance about creating your own tests.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Testing & Assessment
A great catch-all page that explores practical and theoretical issues related to assessment.
Technology
This page provides information on technology in the classroom.
Technology in the Classroom
This site is a compendium of links to other sites with a focus on using technology to foster learning both inside and outside of the classroom.
Examples of Enhanced Learning
This website is connected to the “Technology Across the Curriculum” (TAC) program at George Mason. This is a good source for the most up-to-the-minute changes in technology as it affects the classroom.
CTL Classroom Support Page
This site is specifically designed to address technological issues in UGA classrooms. Please view this page if you are planning on teaching at UGA, or if you have questions about technology in UGA classrooms.
Movies for Social Sciences and Humanities
Looking for movies to illustrate concepts in class? This site reviews movies that deal with social science/humanities issues including an analysis of how far the movies stray from what scholars say. A good resource for finding films to show in class.
DocuSeek
Another site for finding classroom appropriate films. Check out the advanced search engine.
Diversity and Mutual Respect
This page provides links to websites that provide useful information and ideas for promoting diversity and respect for different opinions in the classroom.
Diversity in the Classroom
An excellent and extensive resource for promoting diversity in the classroom. Make sure and check out the section on “Inclusive teaching strategies”.
Diversity Links
This site is a compendium of links to other sites with a focus on promoting diversity in the classroom.
Addressing Students’ Beliefs
This page provides a fairly specific description of how to address the diversity of beliefs held by students.
Documenting Teaching
Building a Teaching Portfolio at UGA
This link describes the teaching portfolio program at UGA, including the reasons for developing your own portfolio and explanations of each component that should be included.
How to Produce a Teaching Portfolio
This link has excerpts from Peter Seldin’s book, The Teaching Portfolio — A practical guide to improved perfomance and promotion/tenure decisions.
Assignments and Pedagogies
There are a wide variety of methods and tools available for engaging students in the subject matter. Following are examples of assignments and pedagogies that you can build into your syllabi and lesson plans.
Active Learning
Active learning is a process whereby students engage in higher-order thinking tasks such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. This link connects to bibliographies, research summaries, articles, and other resources about active learning.
Case-Based Teaching
With this pedagogical strategy, students develop skills in analytical thinking and reflective judgment by reading and discussing complex, real-life scenarios. This link explains how to use cases in teaching and provide case studies for the natural sciences, social sciences, and other disciplines.
Group Work and Cooperative Learning
Many disciplines and institutions of higher learning place a great deal of emphasis on team-based learning environments. This link explains how to design effective group activities and cooperative learning methods.
Writing Assignments
Writing assignments require students to articulate their understanding and use critical thinking skills. The articles in this section describe how writing assignments can be used to promote, not just demonstrate, learning, and they present tips on how to evaluate writing.
Service Learning
Service-learning combines service objectives with learning objectives with the intent that the activity change both the recipient and the provider of the service. This is accomplished by combining service tasks with structured opportunities that link the task to self-reflection, self-discovery, and the acquisition and comprehension of values, skills, and knowledge content.