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A Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching With Excellence
- The distilled wisdom of recipients of Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award.
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calculus@internet
- Resources for teaching calculus, linear algebra, and ODE's.
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Richard Feynman on Teaching: The Dignified Professor
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in Teaching" I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never. "
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Eric Mazur's Science Education Page
- ConcepTests and Peer Instruction. One of the most interesting approaches to science education.
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Reform Calculus Resource Archive
- Ready-to-print Activities (in-class groupwork), Projects (long-term assignments), Capsules, Tutorials, and Resources (both for instructors and students) in Calculus.
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Richard Felder's Resources in Engineering and Science Education
- An interesting collection of articles on teaching and learning styles.
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The Visible Human Project
- A complete dissection of a male and a female cadaver, each one sliced up into 1 mm slices. Fascinating, though a bit grisly.
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Project NExT Teaching Resources
- A collection of resources for teaching undergraduate mathematics courses, courtesy of Project NExT.
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Active and Cooperative Learning
- Papers by R.M. Felder. The traditional teacher-centered approach to learning " has repeatedly been found inferior to instruction that involves active learning, in which students solve problems, answer questions, formulate questions of their own, discuss, explain, debate, or brainstorm during class, and cooperative learning, in which students work in teams on problems and projects under conditions that assure both positive interdependence and individual accountability. "
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Learning Styles
- by R. M. Felder. " The idea is not to teach each student exclusively according to his or her preferences, but rather to strive for a balance of instructional methods. If the balance is achieved, students will be taught partly in a manner they prefer, which leads to an increased comfort level and willingness to learn, and partly in a less preferred manner, which provides practice and feedback in ways of thinking and solving problems which they may not initially be comfortable with but which they will have to use to be fully effective professionals. "
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100 Tips for College Science Educators
- Teaching tips and innovations from Brown University's science and engineering faculty.
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Busy Teachers' Website K-12
- Lots of source materials, lesson plans, and classroom activities for all subjects.
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Project NExT: New Experiences in Teaching
- A program for new or recent Ph.D.s in the mathematical sciences who are interested in improving the teaching and learning of undergraduate mathematics. Fellows will explore and discuss a broad range of issues that are of special relevance to beginning faculty members.
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Teachers @ Work
- An amazing site containing over 1,000 fully sorted and reviewed educational sites.
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Innovative Teaching Exchange
- An exchange that allows people teaching mathematics at the college level to share new methods they have tried, invented, or discovered, which they feel help the students learn better and/or more easily. The intention is to encourage more experimentation with more methods than the traditional lecture/questions method.
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Resources for Teaching Linear Algebra (Review)
- Articles discussing both the content of linear algebra courses and approaches to teaching such courses.
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Chance Database
- Resources for teaching Chance, a course intended to make students more informed, and critical, readers of current news that uses probability and statistics as reported in daily newspapers, magazines, and scientific journals. The materials are quite helpful for anyone teaching a statistics class of any sort.
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Classroom Resources from the NSF
- Links to resources, activities, and experiments to enhance teaching courtesy of the NSF's Education and Human Resources Directorate.
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Physics 2000
- " An interactive journey through modern physics " -- contains some very cool and accessible explanations of such recent developments as Bose-Einstein condensates. Lots of Java applets are used to illustrate key principles.
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Macrogalleria
- Site dedicated to polymers: in the real world, their chemistry and properties, how they are used and what they are made of. Sub-sections (being expanded) offer demos and experiments, and " activities " that use the information available in this expanding resource. Feedback, comments and especially contributions are welcome!
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Virtual Frog Dissection Kit
- This program allows you to dissect an virtual frog. No mess, no smell of formaldehyde, just pure frog innards. You can even make movies. Very cool.
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Student Assessment of Learning Gains
- This free site is designed for instructors of all disciplines who would like feedback from their students about how the course elements are helping their students to learn. It is offered as a service to the college-level teaching community.
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The Irascible Professor
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in TeachingIrreverent commentary about the state of education in America today, by a veteran of more than 30 years in public higher education.
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Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning
- POGIL is a classroom and laboratory technique that seeks to simultaneously teach content and key process skills such as the ability to think analytically and work effectively as part of a collaborative team.
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ChemConnections
- These 2-4-week modules start with relevant real-world questions and develop the chemistry needed to answer them. In the process, students model how chemistry is actually done and discover connections between chemistry and other sciences, technology, and society. In order to develop critical thinking skills as well as cover chemical content, modules feature student-centered active and collaborative classroom activities and inquiry-based laboratory and media projects, rather than relying primarily on traditional lectures and verification laboratories. This approach is based on research showing that students learn best when they build on past experience, relate what they are learning to things that are relevant to them, have direct "hands-on" experience, construct their own knowledge in collaboration with other students and faculty, and communicate their results effectively.
