Resources
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TEaching tips Articles and Websites
- Are College Lectures Unfair?
- Conducting Effective Exam Review Sessions
- Should We Ban Technology from Classroom?
- Designing Writing Assignments
- Laptops Negatively Affect Learning in Classroom
Pedagogy Wednesday Material
- Writing Across the Curriculum (downloadable Word file)
Journals for Undergraduate Research
Pedagogy Conferences & Organizations
- Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
- Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD)
- The Teaching Professor
- National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- National Association for Developmental Education (NADE)
- Association for General and Liberal Studies (AGLS)
- National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
- Faculty Resource Network at New York University: Prof. Phil Meyers is our college liaison to the Network.
- College Art Association
- NYMAPS: New York Metro Area Partnership for Service Learning
- SENCER: Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities
- For a very detailed listing of upcoming teaching conferences, check out Kennesaw State University’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Pedagogy Resources by Discipline
For a good list of journals (by discipline) that publish the scholarship of teaching and learning and address general issues in higher education, see Kennesaw State University’s website.
Business
Education
Communication
English
- National Council of Teachers of English—they have lots of journals and books!
Fine and Performing Arts
Psychology
Sciences
- Journal of College Science Teaching (journal of National Science Teachers Association)
- National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science
- International Journal of Science Education
- Journal of Science Teacher Education
- Research in Science Education
- Journal for Research in Mathematics Education
- Journal of Research in Science Teaching
- Teaching and Learning in Communication Sciences and Disorders
Pedagogy Resources by Topic
General
- The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy (journal)
- The Teaching Professor (newsletter)
- Radical Teacher
- Research and Teaching in Developmental Education (journal of New York State College Learning Skills Association)
- Tompkins, Jane. A Life in School: What the teacher learned. Reading, MA: Perseus Books, 1996.
- Carleton College’s Teaching Resources: includes links on activities and assignments, course design, pedagogical techniques, quantitative literacy, civic engagement, and more.
- Harvard University’s Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning: includes links on syllabus design, teaching with tech, lecturing, diversity in the classroom, and teaching portfolios.
- The University of Iowa’s self-diagnostic Inventory of Teaching Goals
- Vanderbilt University’s Center for Teaching: includes links on teaching activities like case studies, cooperative learning, difficult dialogues, independent studies, visual learning, and more.
- The Chronicle of Higher Education’s ProfHacker blog
Time Management/ Workload
- Bain, Ken. What the Best College Teachers Do. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
- Lang, James M. On Course: A week-by-week guide to your first semester of college teaching. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008.
- How to Handle the Paper Load. 1979-80 (but not dated!) Urbana: IL: NCTE.
Alternatives to Lecturing
- Finkel, Donald L. Teaching with Your Mouth Shut. Portsmith, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2000.
- Vilardi, Teresa and Mary Chang (Ed.). Writing-Based Teaching. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009.
- Wood, Bonnie S. (Ed.). Lecture-Free Teaching. Arlington, VA: NSTA Press, 2009.
Plagiarism
- DeSena, Laura Hennessey. Preventing Plagiarism: Tips and Techniques. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2007.