University of St. Thomas

Teaching Tips for the New Instructor

(more information in Faculty Resources -- Teaching Tips)

Teaching tips for first day, first semester, etc.

• From the University of California - Berkeley:  Tools for Teaching -- the first day of class  http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/firstday.html
• From the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Graduate Student Development Web site, suggestions for tips for those first few weeks:  http://www.unl.edu/gradstudies/current/dev/gta_handbook/preparing/ 

Syllabus guidelines

• From the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at Iowa State University  the Learning-Centered Syllabi Workshop, a site authored by Lee Haugen:  http://www.celt.iastate.edu/teaching/syllabi.html#intro

Course design

• From the Center for Instructional Development and Research at the University of Washington --some ideas for what promotes student learning:   http://depts.washington.edu/cidrweb/Bulletin/Learning.html
• From the Center for Teaching Excellence at the  University of California Santa Cruz  http://teaching.ucsc.edu/tips-design.html
• Based on the book Creating Significant Learning Experiences by L. Dee Fink, 2003,   Jossey-Bass.  Available in the Center for Faculty Development Library.
• For a short article "Integrated Course Design," on this model of course design "Integrated Course Design," (IDEA Paper #42, March 2005). PDF/Adobe Acrobat go to  http://www.idea.ksu.edu/papers/Idea_Paper_42.pdf