Most Popular Resources in "Teaching"
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BIODIDAC
- A collection of images to teach zoology, botany, histology and human biology. Free for educational non-profit purposes.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Fear 101
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in Teachingby Elizabeth Bobrick, Salon , September 1, 1999. " Seasonal teaching anxiety reduces the most experienced professors to raw nerves and nightmares. "
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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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TA's as the Key to Science Teaching
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in Teaching"In 1997, Elaine Seymour was one of the authors of Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences (Westview). She found that a reason cited by student after student at a range of institutions was poor teaching. And at many institutions, teaching assistants were a major part of the problem."
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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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Eric Mazur's Science Education Page
- ConcepTests and Peer Instruction. One of the most interesting approaches to science education.
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Peer-led Team Learning
- The PLTL Workshop model engages teams of six to eight students in learning sciences, mathematics and other undergraduate disciplines guided by a peer leader. The PLTL Workshop model: provides an active learning experience for students, creates a leadership role for undergraduates, and engages faculty in a creative new dimension of instruction.
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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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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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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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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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Reforming The Teaching Of Mathematics At The Undergraduate Level
- An interesting experiment at the University of Waterloo in which an undergraduate taught an undergraduate mathematics course.
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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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Just in Time Teaching
- Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT for short) is a teaching and learning strategy based on the interaction between web-based study assignments and an active learner classroom. Students respond electronically to carefully constructed web-based assignments which are due shortly before class, and the instructor reads the student submissions "just-in-time" to adjust the classroom lesson to suit the students' needs. Thus, the heart of JiTT is the "feedback loop" formed by the students' outside-of-class preparation that fundamentally affects what happens during the subsequent in-class time together.
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Field-tested Learning Assessment Guide (FLAG)
- The FLAG offers broadly applicable, self-contained modular classroom assessment techniques and discipline-specific tools for SMET instructors interested in new approaches to evaluating student learning, attitudes and performance. Each has been developed, tested and refined in real colleges and universities classrooms.
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The Learning Revolution
- " Representing a bold and spirited departure from traditional teaching/learning organizations, the Learning Revolution International (LRI) is dedicated to changing the way the world learns. LRI utilizes advanced teaching methods to address multiple intelligences and sensory faculties, based on the latest brain and neuroscience research. "
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The Reinvention Center
- The Reinvention Center is a national center focusing on undergraduate education at research universities.
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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.
