General Teaching Resources
Below, we offer many links of interest to teachers, both new and experienced. The first
section focuses on how to create the classroom environment you want, which, as researchers
point out repeatedly, must be done in the first few days. For teachers who see value
in using humor, there is also a growing body of practical and theoretical work on how
humor functions, as well as what drawbacks accompany its use. Under Educational Theory,
we have collected relevant links on active learning pedagogies, multiple intelligences,
critical pedagogies, etc. These links are supplemented by a series of bibliographies
that point to recent Scholarship in Teaching and Learning that might also be of interest.
First Day/Week Activities
- 101
Things You Can Do the First Three Weeks of Class (Joyce Povlacs, Nebraska)
- Getting Started (Richard
Felder, NCSU & Rebecca Brent, ECU)
- The
Most Important Day: Starting Well (Delivee Wright, Nebraska)
- Warm Up Exercises
to Help Students Work Together (Ted Panitz)
Humor in the Classroom
- Bibliography on Humor & the
Education of Adolescents & Adults (Don Nilsen, ASU)
- Developing a Psychology
of Humor (Mark Mitchell)
- Humor in the Classroom:
Cultivating Camaraderie to Maximize Learning (Katherine Abbott & Mark
Lewis)
- Why Use Humor
in the Classroom? (Ron Deiter, Iowa State)
Educational Theory
- Activity Theory (Martin
Ryder, UC-Denver)
- Bloom's Taxonomy & Related
Links (Gunter Krumme, Washington)
- Critical Pedagogy
Resources (Martin Ryder, UC-Denver)
- Educational Theory (Journal)
- Educational Theory Handbook:
A Collection of Theories and Theorists
- Issues
in Freirean Pedagogy (Tom Heaney, National Louis)
- John Dewey's Democracy & Education:
Full-Text Online (1916)
- Philosophy of Education (Journal)
- Rage & Hope: Critical Education
- Theory into Practice Database (Greg Kearsley,
GWU)
Other Resources
- Bibliography
on College Teaching
- Bibliography
on Evaluating Teaching
- Bibliography
on TA and Faculty Development
- Bibliography
on Teaching for Diversity
- Faculty Development Associates
- How to Find Out More about
College Teaching and Its Scholarship: A Not Too Brief, Very Selective Hyperlinked
List
- League for Innovation in the Community
College
- Orientation to College Teaching (San Francisco
State)
- Introduction to College Teaching
Course Design
Course Development
Course Implementation
Assessment
- Teaching Related Web Sites
- Teaching Resources Exchange
- Techniques: Tips
and Guides (Clemson)
