Teaching Tips
Theory and Practice of College Teaching

Online sites for practical teaching tips and more general scholarship concerning education theory, with links to indexes of college education related web sites for more information. The 'Practice' sites typically list brief synopses on topics such as effective lecturing, leading discussions, active learning, motivating students, or group assignments. 'Theory' sites have more extensive sources on research in education, learning styles, etc. 
  

Theory

Practice

 

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's list of online and print resources on educational research, policy, and practice. 

Annotated Bibliography of Student Development Literature, from Iowa State's Center for Teaching Excellence, lists books and articles on different theories of learning styles and how they apply to instruction in various disciplines. 

Learning Styles Site at Indiana State's Center for Teaching and Learning lists print and online sources about students' various styles of learning. 

William Perry's Scheme of Intellectual and Ethical Development - Brief outline of Perry's influential theory of college students' progression through stages of dualism (one right answer, all others wrong), multiplicity (no right or wrong, all opinions equally valid), to relativism (answers are better or worse, rationally and evidentially defended in evolving context)

Educational Psychology Interactive - Extensive list of online readings in educational psychology

Deliberations - Database of resources on teaching and learning in higher education, with an online forum for discussing and developing ideas and topics related to teaching and learning. 

 

 

Help, I'm a first time teacher! What University of Texas' Center for Teaching Effectiveness suggests if you are in this situation. 

Teaching Tips Archive at Indiana State's Center for Teaching and Learning "aims to provide ideas and practices that address classroom issues colleges teachers encounter."

Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence, which have been expanded into the book Tools for Teaching, partially available online. 

Teaching Tips: a collection of papers addressing typical issues in the college classroom, from Iowa State's Center for Teaching Excellence

Teaching Tips listed by University of Nebraska's Teaching and Learning Center.  

Best Practices in College Teaching tips from Tom Drummond, professor at North Seattle Community College

Teaching Tips Index from the faculty development page at Honolulu Community College 

Teaching at Stanford, an introductory handbook for faculty at Stanford. Some parts are Stanford specific, but most is applicable anywhere. 

 

Specific Topics
 
First Day of Class

Grading

 

  
Leading Discussions / Asking Questions 

 

Indexes to Other Sites
 

Links for teaching and learning centers - extensive index of links to college teaching and learning centers. 

World Lecture Hall - links to pages created by college faculty using the Web to deliver course materials.

 

 

last updated: 9/9/02
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