Teaching Resources
The following links provide access to a wide variety of current resources on teaching and learning, everything from assessment of students, to teaching strategies, tips and techniques.
Teaching Resources
The following links provide access to a wide variety of current resources on teaching and learning, everything from assessment of students, to teaching strategies, tips and techniques.
- Blooms Taxonomy
- Blooms Taxonomy Interactive Tutorial
http://www.swinburne.edu.au/ads/showcase/bloomsTaxonomy.htm
Developed by the Academic Development and Support unit of Swinburne University of Technology to assist participants to identify active verbs within a range of thinking levels which can be used when writing learning objectives in subject outlines or lesson plans. A series of exercises provide an opportunity to match sets of active verbs to an appropriate level in the cognitive domain.
- Driving Learning Through Criterion-reference Assessment Using Bloom’s Taxonomy
http://science.uniserve.edu.au/pubs/procs/2006/lister.pdf
- Blooms Taxonomy Interactive Tutorial
- Cornell University Center for Learning and Teaching
http://www.clt.cornell.edu/campus/teach/teach.html
Teaching and learning resources, including study and learning skills resources and The Teaching Evaluation Handbook.
- Deliberations on teaching and learning in higher education
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/deliberations/
Deliberations is an international website on issues of learning and teaching for the higher education community. Deliberations is based in the Centre for Academic Professional Development (CAPD) at London Metropolitan University. - HERSDA Teaching Resources
http://www.herdsa.org.au/teaching.php
The Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia is a scholarly society for people committed to the improvement of teaching and learning in higher and tertiary education.
- Harvard University Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k1985&pageid=icb.page29721
Teaching Tips for a range of teaching and learning issues.
- The Higher Education Academy
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/default.htm
The Higher Education Academy supports the enhancement of quality in learning and teaching in higher education in the UK. Access a wide range of resources on teaching and learning including discipline-based resources through 24 Subject Centres hosted by U.K. higher education institutions.
- Learning Technology Development Initiative Evaluation Cookbook
http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/ltdi/cookbook/
A guide and resources on evaluating teaching materials for their effectiveness in achieving specific learning outcomes.
- Oxford Brookes University Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Developmenthttp://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsd/index.html
Excellent resources for teaching and learning development including resources on plagiarism, can be found under the Learning and Teaching category and the Resources category.
- The POD Network Teaching Excellence Essay (CityU Staff Only)
- Graham Gibbs, Open University, UK Changing Student Learning Behavior Outside Of Class
- David Graf, Nova Southeastern University Helping Students (Better) Evaluate and Validate WWW Resources
- Lion F. Gardiner, Rutgers University Fostering Students' Moral Development
- L. Dee Fink, University of Oklahoma Higher Level Learning: A Taxonomy for Identifying Different Kinds of Significant Learning
- John B. Bennett, Quinnipiac College Teaching With Hospitality
- Thomas A. Angelo, DePaul University Classroom Assessment: Guidelines for Success
- Terry Doyle, Ferris State University Integrating Learning Strategies Into Teaching
- Graham Gibbs, Open University, UK Changing Student Learning Behavior Outside Of Class
- Web Tools for Learning
http://webtools.cityu.edu.hk/news/index.html
- Teaching and Learning Journals
- International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (IJ-SoTL)
http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/current.htm
Teaching Tips
Learning Strategies & Skills
- Modeling your own strategies for expert learning (
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Learning Outcomes
- Clarifying learning goals for better teaching ( PowerPoint Word )
Teaching and Learning Activities
- How can I get students to connect theory to practice?
- Active learning in lectures: questioning ( PowerPoint Word )
- Using worked examples ( PowerPoint Word )
- Getting students to produce their own examples ( PowerPoint )
- Articulating our thinking ( PowerPoint Word )
Teaching Techniques
- How can I get students to review last week's material?
- Is there a best teaching method to use?
- The First Day of Class
Assessment and Evaluation
- Getting quick feedback from students
- Getting mid-course feedback
- Learning & assessing through seminars ( PowerPoint Word )
Teaching Philosophy
Teaching Perspectives Inventory
http://www.one45.com/teachingperspectives/
The Teaching Perspectives Inventory can help you collect your thoughts and summarize your ideas about teaching. It can be useful in examining your own teaching as well as helping clarify the teaching views of other people. It is quick to complete - it usually takes no more than 10-15 minutes to answer all the questions and to automatically score your results.
