Top Tips & Strategies

Advising

Fundamentals

Syllabus Design

Active Learning

Feedback and Evaluation

 

Advising

Alert Your Advisees: Sample Email from Math (courtesy Becky Metcalfe, Math)

Know 77 Frequently Asked Questions (2 page survey pdf): Sample from Math (courtesy Becky Metcalfe, Math)

Point Students to Frequently Used Forms (courtesy Becky Metcalfe, Math)

Guide Your Transfers: Sample from the Sciences (doc and ppt; courtesy Jenna Mendell)

 

 

Fundamentals

Carnegie Mellon's useful "Solve a Teaching Problem" resource

Fink’s 12-step guide to designing courses (brief pdf version)

 

Syllabus Design

Optional Bridgewater State University Syllabus Template

 

Visually Graphic Syllabus: Illustrated Summary Article (Chronicle)

Varying one's teaching modes or "styles" by using more than simply text or lecture alone can help everyone learn better, not to adapt to every student's personal preference, but because all learners access information, and think, better through multiple channels and modes.

 

3 Creative Syllabus Samples

Beautifully visual yet rigorous, each unexpectedly from in many ways "technical" areas.

 

Active Learning

Videos & other resources from University of Michigan's historic Center for Research in Teaching & Learning

Resources from Vanderbilt University's Center for Teaching

 

Feedback and Evaluation

Grading to Save Time (2-page PDF)

Find ways to hold students to high expectations, to feel each accomplishment mattered. Yet clarify just what the bar looks like and allow options to accommodate students' real world needs. See esp. on p. 2:

- Make your own rubric online (rubistar)

- 15 VALUEs rubrics for critical thinking, oral communication, etc.

Last Modified: March 21, 2013