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IST510 Web Reading List
Oct 2: Week Two
Practical Strategies to Reduce or Eliminate Student Incivility, Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning Dealing with Disruptive Behavior in the Classroom from the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology, Illinois State Campus Conflict Resolution Project Resources Project, Wayne State University. Classroom and online resources for resolving conflict. Training Writing Consultants to Utilize Supportive Behaviors Purdue University, The Writing Lab. An application of Gibb's "Defensive Communication" article in the context of one-on-one work with students on their writing. Open Communication Climate by William Buchholtz, Bentley College. Application of Gibb's and related models to communication in the workplace.
Oct 9: Week Three Thomas Angelo's Fourteen Principles for Improving Higher Learning How Students Learn vs. How We Teach from the Faculty Development Center at Honolulu Community College Learning Assumptions from the Faculty Development Center at Honolulu Community College
Oct. 16: Week Four Some Pertinent Questions About Grading by Marilla Svinicki, Center for Teaching Effectiveness, University of Texas Austin. Should grades reflect status acheived or amount of growth? Can you grade someone on diligence or attitude? Evaluating and Grading Students by Marilla Svinicki, Center for Teaching Effectiveness, University of Texas Austin. Guidelines for creating a comprehensive and connected course grading system. Using Rubrics to Achieve Greater Equity in Teaching and Grading by Dannelle Stevens and Antonia Levi. Toward the Best in the Academiy, 17 (1), 2005-2006. An introduction to rubrics and their use for cutting grading time, clarifying expectations and helping students succeed. TIPs for GTAs: Responding to Feedback on Your Instruction. PSU Faculty Focus, vol. 2(1). How to constructively deal with your students' feedback about you -- the great news and the not-so-great. From the CAE home page click on "Faculty Focus Publication." Scroll down several pages to the "TIPS for GTAs" column. TIPs for GTAs: How Much Feedback? PSU's Faculty Focus, Spring 1998, vol.(1). Some quick ideas for giving adequate feedback without staying up half the night grading. From the CAE home page click on "Faculty Focus Publication." Scroll down several pages to the "TIPs for GTAs" column. General grading tips from the University of Oregon's Teaching Effectiveness Program. Tips for grading short answer tests, grading essays, grading fairly and accurately. Even experienced graders can pick up some useful "quick tips" here. Teaching with Writing: Suggestions for Helping Non-Native Writers by Eric Nelson, University of Minnesota Center for Writing. How to take into account non-native speakers unique needs while maintaining equitable grading standards. Oct. 23: Week Five The Heart of a Teacher, by Parker Palmer. This article contains excerpts from the book "The Courage to Teach," and explores the tension between teaching techniques and the ever-evolving "teaching self." How Effective Communication Can Enhance Teaching at the College Level. ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English and Communication Digest #102. This article reviews research on verbal and nonverbal behaviors exhibited by GTAs, and students' attitudes and reactions regarding those behaviors. Factors That Make Student-Faculty Relationships Effective from College Teaching ,vol. 50(4). A qualitative analysis of faculty-student interactions. Dynamics of One on One Teaching from College Teaching, Vol. 50 (4). This article focuses on instructor-student relationships in the context of office hours, tutoring, and other one-on-one teaching situations. The College Classroom as a Community, from College Teaching, Vol. 54 (3). This study examines students' perceptions of classroom community in relation to variables such as attitude, perception of learning, and actual performance on exams. Improving Nonverbal Communication, Honolulu Community College Teaching Tips Index. A brief outline of effective nonverbal teaching behaviors. Oct. 30: Week Six : There are no web readings or Bain readings this week. Please take the Kolb LSI distributed last week, and read "Learning Styles and Intellectual Development" distributed in class.
Nov. 6: Week Seven Problem-Based Learning from Speaking of Teaching, Stanford University, Winter 2001, 11 (1). Capturing and Directing the Motivation to Learn from Speaking of Teaching, Stanford University, Fall 1998, vol 10 (1). Active Learning: Getting Students to Work and Think in the Classroom from Speaking of Teaching, Stanford Univesity, Fall 1993, vol 5(1). Nov. 13: Week Eight Introduction to Theories of Learning. GSI Resource Center, Uinversity of California Berkeley. This site presents various theories on how people learn. First, review the summary table on the main page. Next, find out more about the theories by clicking on the various theories (left side). Each theory overview includes implications for teaching behaviors. Review the various theories and take the quiz. Think about how the various learning theories connect with your teaching philosophy and which instructional behaviors you are most comfortable with (as teacher or graduate student). The Scholarly Lecture: How to Stand and Deliver. The Chronicle Review, Nov. 28, 2003. Lectures: Organizing Them and Making Them Interesting, from the University of Oklahoma Instructional Development Program Asking Effective Questions (Focused on laboratory and discussion Sections) from the University of California, Berkeley Effective Questioning (Focuses on the use of questions during discussion) from the Office of Curriculum Development, University of Alabama School of Medicine Nov. 20: Week Nine Tips for Making Learning Environments more Inclusive from the CIDR Program at University of Washington Teaching for Inclusion from the University of North Carolina Diversity and Complexity in the Classroom: Considerations of Race, Ethnicity and Gender. Honolulu Community College Teaching Tips Index Home page for PSU Physicist and University Studies Professor Jack Straton Scroll down to "Teaching Resources" and click on "Diversity." Nov. 27: Week Ten TA Handbook: Ethics in Teaching from the Office of Teaching Support Services, University of Guelph Nine Ethical Principles for University Teaching from the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, University of British Columbia |
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