Resources
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Teaching Tips and Articles to Ponder
- How to Make Your Teaching More Engaging
- Improving Classroom Engagement with Online Technologies
- Small Teaching: How to Improve Your Teaching Incorporating “Small” Changes
- First Day Tips
- Are College Lectures Unfair?
- Conducting Effective Exam Review Sessions
- Should We Ban Technology from Classroom?
- Designing Writing Assignments
- Laptops Negatively Affect Learning in Classroom
- 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
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Podcasts, Ted Talks, and Other Videos to Ponder
- The Critical Thinking Initiative Podcast (iTunes Podcast)
- Podcast: 5 Things to Know about Gen Z Kids (iTunes Podcast)
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Journals for Undergraduate Research
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Online Education
- Optimizing Online Education (Prepared by Professor Martinez-Novoa and Professor Trikha)
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Pedagogy Resources by Topic
General
- Transformation: 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.
Infusing Creativity
- Berrett, Dan, et al., How to Infuse Creativity in the Classroom.
- Davis, Lauren. Creative Teaching and Teaching Creativity: How to Foster Creativity in the Classroom
- Klawe, Maria. Teaching Creativity Is A Necessary Part Of Undergraduate Education
- Simpson, Mary The Affect Team Learning has on Creativity in a College Classroom Environment
- Wood, Charles 10 Hand-On Exercises to Spark Creativity and Innovation
Teaching Generation Z
- Grace, Meghan and Seemiller, Corey. Generation Z Goes to College. Jossey-Bass, 2016 (book)
- Shankar, Shalini. Beeline: What Spelling Bees Reveal about Generation Z’s New Path to Success. Basic Books, 2019 (book)
- The New Generation of Students: How Colleges Can Recruit, Teach, and Serve Gen Z. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2018
Plagiarism
- DeSena, Laura Hennessey. Preventing Plagiarism: Tips and Techniques. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2007.
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Pedagogy Journals 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
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Pedagogy Conferences and 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
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Mental Health Resources
Check out MMC’s Counseling and Wellness Center for resources related to mental health.
The CWC’s “Relaxation Station” provides resources for managing stress and anxiety, and their “Helpful Resources” page includes links to a variety of sites and articles related to mental health issues.