General Teaching Resources
Below, we offer many links of interest to teachers, both new and experienced.
The first section focuses on how to create the classroom environment you
want, which, as researchers point out repeatedly, must be done in the first
few days. For teachers who see value in using humor, there is also a growing
body of practical and theoretical work on how humor functions, as well as
what drawbacks accompany its use. Under Educational Theory, we have collected
relevant links on active learning pedagogies, multiple intelligences, critical
pedagogies, etc. These links are supplemented by a series of bibliographies
that point to recent Scholarship in Teaching and Learning that might also
be of interest.
First Day/Week Activities
- 101
Things You Can Do the First Three Weeks of Class (Joyce Povlacs,
Nebraska)
- Getting
Started (Richard Felder, NCSU & Rebecca Brent, ECU)
- The
Most Important Day: Starting Well (Delivee Wright, Nebraska)
- Warm
Up Exercises to Help Students Work Together (Ted Panitz)
Humor in the Classroom
- Bibliography
on Humor & the Education of Adolescents & Adults (Don Nilsen,
ASU)
- Developing
a Psychology of Humor (Mark Mitchell)
- Humor in
the Classroom: Cultivating Camaraderie to Maximize Learning (Katherine
Abbott & Mark Lewis)
- Why
Use Humor in the Classroom? (Ron Deiter, Iowa State)
Educational Theory
- Activity
Theory (Martin Ryder, UC-Denver)
- Bloom's
Taxonomy & Related Links (Gunter Krumme, Washington)
- Critical
Pedagogy Resources (Martin Ryder, UC-Denver)
- Educational
Theory (Journal)
- Issues
in Freirean Pedagogy (Tom Heaney, National Louis)
- John Dewey's
Democracy & Education: Full-Text Online (1916)
- Philosophy
of Education (Journal)
- Rage & Hope: Critical
Education
- Theory into Practice Database (Greg
Kearsley, GWU)
Other Resources
- Bibliography
on College Teaching
- Bibliography
on Evaluating Teaching
- Bibliography
on TA and Faculty Development
- Bibliography
on Teaching for Diversity
- Bootcamp
for Profs (USAFA)
- Faculty Development Associates
- How to Find
Out More about College Teaching and Its Scholarship: A Not Too Brief,
Very Selective Hyperlinked List
- League for Innovation in
the Community College
- Orientation to College Teaching (San
Francisco State)
- Introduction to
College Teaching
Course Design
Course Development
Course Implementation
Assessment
- Teaching
Related Web Sites
- Teaching Resources Exchange
- Techniques:
Tips and Guides (Clemson)
