Resources

• Leveraging Online Collaboration Tools to Enhance Student Engagement
• End-of-Course Evaluations:  Making Sense of Student Comments
• The Post-Lecture Classroom: How Will Students Fare?
• Cellphones in the Classroom:  What’s Your Policy?
• Reading Circles Get Students To Do the Reading
• Keeping Introverts in Mind in Your Active Learning Classroom
• Teaching Students the Value of Deceleration and Immersive Attention
• How Accurately Do Students Track Their Class Participation?
• First Day of Class Activities that Create a Climate for Learning
• Laptops in Class Lowers Student Grades

• The Critical Thinking Initiative Podcast (iTunes Podcast)

• Are College Lectures Unfair?
• Conducting Effective Exam Review Sessions
• Should We Ban Technology from Classroom?
• Designing Writing Assignments
• Laptops Negatively Affect Learning in Classroom 

• http://www.cur.org/resources/students/undergraduate_journals/

• https://www.integratingenglish.com/mesh-journal

• 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

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.

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

• Journal of Education for Business
• Business Communication Quarterly

 

Education

• Teacher and Teaching Education
• The Journal of General Education

 

Communication

• Communication Teacher
• Communication Education

 

English

• National Council of Teachers of English—they have lots of journals  and books!

 

Fine and Performing Arts

• College Art Association

 

Psychology

• Teaching of Psychology
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in 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

• Writing Across the Curriculum  (downloadable Word file)
• Developing Brave Spaces in the Classroom (a presentation by Rebecca Pinard and Sarah Nelson Wright)
• Digital Accessibility Initiative (a presentation by Mike Johnson)
• Reaching Our Students on the Autism Spectrum  and Handout  (a presentation by Christina Castronovo)