TILT Teaching Tips
Food for Thought: Five-Ten Minute Reads
Academic Integrity
- Academic Integrity
- Academic Integrity and Class Participation
- Academic Integrity and Class Preparation
- Academic Integrity and Exams
- Academic Integrity and Final Grades
- Academic Integrity and Giving Proper Credit
- Academic Integrity and Writing Assignments
- Academic Integrity: Explaining it to Your Students
- Academic Integrity: Living Up to Scholarly Responsibilities
- How should I address academic integrity on my syllabus?
Accessibility: Digital Media
Active Learning
Assessment: Tests/Quizzes/Questioning
- A Good Verb is Hard to Ignore
- Assessing Student Learning
- Composing Essay Questions
- Composing Matching Questions
- Composing Multiple Choice Questions
- Composing Short Answer Questions
- Composing True/False Questions
- Designing Quantitative Tests: Remember the "Golden Rule"
- Finals: Conducting Effective Review Sessions
- Grading Class Participation
- Grading Final Examinations and Projects
- How’s It Going So Far?
- In-Class Student Assessment Techniques
- Interpreting Biserial Correlation Scores
- Power Formula for Classroom Questioning
- Preparing Your Students for Final Exams
- Stump the Prof: A Quiz Game
- Testing on What You Teach
- The Quiz: A Quick Assessment Tool
- What About the Questions You Ask?
Cheating and Plagiarism
- Confronting eCheating
- How should I address academic integrity on my syllabus?
- Reducing Plagiarism with Non-Traditional Assignments
- SchoolSucks.Com: Let Them Know You Know
- View <em>Dealing with Plagiarism:</em> A Teaching Guide
Class Administration/Classroom Models
- Referring Students to Campus Resources
- Strategies for Setting Student/Instructor Boundaries
- Take Charge of Your In-Box
- Using Student Evaluations to Improve Teaching
- What's On the Agenda?
Classroom Behavior
- 47 Ways to Disrupt Your Students!
- Building a Positive Classroom Culture and Climate
- Creating a Differentiated-Instruction Classroom
- Dealing with Disruptive Classroom Behavior
- Lecture Hall Management: What the Seating Chart Can Do For You.
- Primary Building Blocks for Effective Classroom Cultures: Teacher/Student Relationships
- The Five Most Disruptive Student Behaviors
Commencement Addresses/Inspiration
- Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
- Find What You Love: Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford Commencement
- Listen to Your Heart: Thomas Friedman at Williams College - 2005
- Thinking Along the Autism Spectrum
Copyright Essentials
- Copyright Law: "Fair Use" Exemption
- Copyright Law: Classroom Exemptions
- Copyright Law: The TEACH Act
Course Design and Evaluation
- 5 Ways Online Teaching Positively Affects Your Classroom
- Blended Courses And ADDIE
- Brainstorming Course Vision, Goals and Outcomes
- Creating an Effective Syllabus
- Creating Course Topics, Assignments & Activities
- Designing Homework
- Developing a Course Syllabus and Class Policies
- Developing Course Learning Objectives
- Developing Evaluation Rubrics
- Developing Your Presentation of Course Content
- Getting Students to Read the Class Syllabus
- How to Create a Syllabus
- MERLOT: A FREE Online Course Design Community
- Six Tips for Handling Grade Complaints
- So...You've Never Taught "That" Class Before!
- Stay On Course With the Daily Class Session Guide
- Using Student Evaluations Effectively
- What is an Instructional Designer?
- Why Letter Grades? How about Using Words Instead?
Creativity and the Classroom
- Brainstorming Doesn't Work: Try Brainwriting Instead
- Invasion of the Infographic
- Is Video Reinventing Education?
- What is a Brain Rule?
Current Issues in Higher Education
Discussion Strategies
- Beam Me Up, Scotty!
- Gauging Comprehension after the Class Discussion
- Keeping Classroom Discussions on Track
- Leading Discussions: About Asking Questions
- Leading Discussions: Engaging Your Students Emotionally
- Leading Discussions: Getting the Ball Rolling
- Leading Discussions: Getting the Whole Class Involved
- Thinking on Your Feet
- Your Role as Classroom Discussion Facilitator
Distance/Online Strategies
- Blended Courses And ADDIE
- Conducting Online Discussions
- Netiquette: Ground Rules for Online Discussions
- Online Discussion Formats
Diversity
- Discriminatory Language: What Is It?
- Dispositions for Good Teaching
- Diversity: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
- Recruiting and Retaining the Underrepresented
- Sexist Language: What is it?
- Speaking of Disabilities
- Thinking Along the Autism Spectrum
- Working with Military Veterans in the Classroom
Experiential Education
First Day Tips
- 101 Things You Can Do The First Three Weeks of Class
- 9 Things to Do on the First Day of Class
- Do You Know Your Student’s Names?
Funny Stuff
- 10 Commandments of Lecturing
- Curbing In-Class Laptop Use
- Do You Know Your Student’s Names?
- Graduation One Liners
Lecture Tips
- Two Ways to Use Gamification in Your Classroom
- 5 Tips from a Recent College Graduate
- Are Fs Due to Inability, Weak Preparation, or Lack of Effort?
- Do Unusually High Average Grades Indicate Faculty Giving Unjustifiable Grades?
- Enhance Your Lectures: Make them More Active
- How Effective are Traditional Instruction Methods?
- Lecture Intros: Don't Just Dive In
- Lectures: In Conclusion
- Lectures: Structuring the Body
- Putting the "Sticky" in Lectures
- Reducing or Eliminating Fs, Even in Hard Classes
- Stop it! You’re Killing Me! Retooling Your Lecture
- Tricks of theTrade: Teaching in Large Classrooms
- What's On the Agenda?
Lesson Planning
- 5 Tips from a Recent College Graduate
- Assessing Lesson Comprehension
- Beware the <em>Expert</em> Blind Spot
- Bloom’s Taxonomy: Testing beyond Rote-Memory
- Closure Activities: Making that Last Impression
- Creating Lesson Plans: A Checklist
- Delivering the Goods
- Establishing Lesson Plan Objectives
- Graphic Organizers Enhance Student Comprehension
- Jump-Starting Your Class with SET Activities
Professional Matters
- Crafting a Teaching Persona
- Faculty-to-Faculty Classroom Courtesies
- Good Teaching: The Top Ten Requirements
- Mid-Semester Student Feedback
- Readings for Teaching in Higher Education
- Teach to Where the Puck Will Be
- Writing a Teaching Philosophy
Service-Learning
Student Centered Instruction
- From SCI Shock to Acceptance: 8 Steps to Student Buy-In
- Selling Student-Centered Instruction
- Student-Centered Instruction: A Brief Description
Teaching in the Disciplines
Teaching Strategies
- 5 Simple Tips for Improving Group Projects
- Dealing with Mid-Semester Stress
- Finding Educational Multimedia Online
- Good Teaching: Balancing the Abstract with the Concrete
- Good Teaching: The Top Ten Requirements
- Grandma's Way ain't the Only Way to Cook a Ham
- Help Students Think like a Scientist
- Help Your Students Develop a Growth Mindset
- Improving College-Level Critical Thinking Skills
- Improving Your Course Evals: Three Proactive Steps You Can Take
- Intentional Closure: A Path to Student Accountability
- Managing the End of the Semester
- Six Key Attributes of Successful Teaching
- Smell Your Eggs Before You Eat Them!
- Teaching "Millennials": Embracing a Digital World
- Teaching "Millennials": Give Them What They Need
- Teaching Millennials: First, Who Are They?
- Teaching Teamwork Skills
- Teaching with Humor
- The Jigsaw Classroom: Building the Big Picture
- The Socratic Method: Fostering Critical Thinking
- Using Peer Teaching in the Classroom
- Using Physical Models in the Engineering Classroom
- Using PowerPoint to Promote Active Learning
- When YouTube Met Creative Commons
- Write Now! Improving In-Class Engagement Through In-Class Writing
- Writing in the Margins
Teaching with Technology
- "Clickers" aka Classroom Response Systems
- Checking Technology at the Classroom Door
- Colorado State University Access Project: Universal Design for Learning
- Create a RamCT Chat Room
- Create a RamCT Discussion Forum
- Diverse Ways of Learning
- Engaging Students in the Age of Smartphones
- Innovative Mobile Apps for Teaching
- Podcasting in Higher Education
- Scavenger Hunting: An Activity for Online Course Orientation
- Using Sound in Classroom Projects
- Using Tablet PCs as "Labtops"