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Bushgrant Resources
1. Materials from our "Best Teaching at UST"
summer seminar, 2006:
Day 1:
a) Sue
Chaplin and Bob Werner's "How
do you know you're teaching your students to think?"
b) Jan
Hansen's science teaching example
Day 2:
a) John Tauer's
teaching about motivation
b) how
to ensure your students read before class
Day 3:
a) Tom Hickson's gallery walk
b) Tom's PowerPoint
c) Tom's Schumm diagram
with questions for students
Day 4:
Wendy Wyatt's
Journalism handout
2. Materials from our Assessment seminar,
January 24-25, 2006:
notes from the blackboard
3. Materials from our "Best Teaching Practices" summer seminar,
2005:
notes
from the blackboard
Discussion
as a way of teaching
Discussion
in teaching
Assigning papers
4. If you're interested in how
assessing individual learning styles, both your own and those for an entire class,
IRT has developed an instrument, based on Felder's work, that can be used to plot ways in which you and your
students learn. It does also include some examples and suggestions for the instructor on how to structure
lessons for particular learning types.
Instructors or students may take the inventory by going to:
www.stthomas.edu/cmd/learningstyles/
If instructors would like to set up a class-wide survey, so that they can get a snapshot of the learning styles
present in a course, they can contact Paul Wieser in IRT
(2-6823, pbwieser@stthomas.edu).
5. The University of Delaware is well-known for developing Problem-Based Learning techniques (PBL).
They offer twice-annual workshops in Delaware and have a well-developed website at:
www.udel.edu/inst/
Their excellent annual January workshop materials are given at:
www.udel.edu/inst/jan2003/
The University of Delaware also has a bank of PBL instructional modules. They are tried and tested.
You can also publish your own PBL exercises there. Such instructional materials are rather rigorously
peer-reviewed and must follow a specific format, so the quality of them is excellent.
6. At UST, our own Joe Landsberger of IRT has a very well-developed website covering a great many topics
related to learning strategies at:
www.iss.stthomas.edu/studyguides/
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