Teaching Tips from Your Colleagues
- 101 Things You Can Do the First Week of Class
- Better Endings: What to Do in the Last Day of Class
- Setting FIRE to Your Teaching
- Characteristics of a Good Teacher
- What is one (or more) class activity or teaching practice that you would recommend?
Teaching Tips by Topic
The First Day of Class
Teaching Large Classes
- Large Class FAQ
- Beating the Numbers Game: Effective Teaching in Large Classes by Richard Felder
- Teaching Large Classes With the Web
- "But I Teach a Large Class..." by Linda Dion
- The "Change-Up" in Lectures by Joan Middendorf and Alan Kalish
- From Rowdy Crowd to Effective Team by Laura Border
- Let Your Students Teach Their Class
Problem-Based Learning
- Illinois Math and Science Academy Center for Problem-Based Learning
Offers outlines of PBL and comparisons of the roles of faculty and student in PBL verses other approaches (e.g. straight lecture). Includes position papers and more. - The University of Delaware
Includes dozens of articles from newsletters, example syllabi, and problems.
Teaching Creativity
- Robert Alan Black's Creativity Challenges
Here you'll find 52 challenges that you can take yourself or issue to your students as a way to encourage and evaluate creative thinking. - 10 Steps for Boosting Creativity
Diversity in the Classroom
- Diversity and Complexity in the Classroom University of California, Berkley
- Diversity Issues University of Texas, Austin
- Teaching Strategies: Multiculturalism / Diversity in Teaching Univrsity of Michigan