Master Teacher Initiative Teaching Tips

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Welcome to the Master Teacher Initiative Teaching Tips. Please click on the folders, below, to view the list of teaching tips. To view a complete tip, click on the title of the teaching tip.

Academic Integrity

Assessment: Tests/Quizzes/Questioning

Cheating and Plagiarism

Class Administration/Classroom Models

Classroom Behavior

Commencement Addresses/Inspiration

Course Design and Evaluation

Current Issues in Higher Education

Discussion Strategies

Distance/Online Strategies

Diversity

Experiential Education

Student Centered Instruction

Teaching in the Disciplines

Teaching Strategies

Dealing with Mid-Semester Stress: Seven tips with which to battle mid-semester blues.

Good Teaching: Balancing the Abstract with the Concrete: One good principle of effective teaching is to use concrete, real-world examples to introduce abstract concepts.

Improving College-Level Critical Thinking Skills: Activity assignments that promote critical thinking.

Six Key Attributes of Successful Teaching:

Smell Your Eggs Before You Eat Them!: Reduce your workload! Assign your papers; then your pre-papers. Pre-writing will cut your paper-grading chores in half.

Teaching "Millennials": Embracing a Digital World: Review and link to a concise article exploring the affect of digital media devices on current pedagogical practices.

Teaching "Millennials": First, Who Are They?: Brief description of "Millennial" characteristics and links to online articles reporting on the subject.

Teaching "Millennials": Give Them What They Need: Review and link to article suggesting how to meet "Net" Gen information gathering and communication needs.

Teaching Teamwork Skills: Intro to a two-part article on teaching teamwork skills.

Teaching with Humor: A brief tip on using humor in the classroom and a link to Ted Powers' article in the Observer

The Socratic Method: Fostering Critical Thinking: This tip concerns using the Socratic Method to foster higher order thinking in discussions.

Using Physical Models in the Engineering Classroom: Tip-off to an excellent article about McGraw Hill's Hands-On Mechanics Web site.

Using PowerPoint to Promote Active Learning: This tip gives suggestions on how to use PowerPoint to engage students more actively.

Teaching with Technology

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