We are happy to provide support and assistance with teaching techniques and curriculum design. In addition, you may want to check out the resources below.

General Resources:

Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education

Strategies that Improve Undergraduate Education (pdf)

Gagné's Nine Events of Instruction

Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives

Example Teaching Strategies/Resources:

1. Active Learning
   1. Shifts responsibility of learning to students and includes activities such as problem-solving, answering questions, formulating questions, discussion, explanation, debate, journaling, brainstorming, writing, reflecting, role-playing, doing, and collaborating.
   2. http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/active.htm
   3. http://ctl.unc.edu/fyc2.html
2. Authentic Assignments/Assessments
   1. Using real-world activities and assessments rather than practicing skills in isolation. Simulates what a learner would do in his or her actual profession.
   2. http://www.funderstanding.com/authentic_assessment.cfm
   3. http://www.ncsu.edu/provost/academic_programs/uapr/FAQ/UAPRFAQwhatisauthenticassessment.html
3. Case Studies
   1. Engages students in active discussion about issues and problems inherent in practical application. Revolves around a real-world issue, problem, example, etc.
   2. http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/case.html
   3. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/cases/
4. Debate
   1. Allows students to have the opportunity to generate ideas, defend their positions, and critique countering positions.
5. Discussions
   1. Large or small groups engaging in formal or informal communication about a question, topic, etc.
   2. http://www.iub.edu/~teaching/faqdisc.shtml
   3. http://www.indiana.edu/~icy/msomni.html
6. Learning Contracts
   1. An agreement between teacher and student about goals, activities, and assessments.
   2. http://www.dmu.ac.uk/~jamesa/teaching/learning_contracts.htm
   3. http://www.msu.edu/user/coddejos/contract.htm
7. Lecture
   1. http://teaching.berkeley.edu/compendium/suggestions/file212.html
   2. http://www.reproline.jhu.edu/english/6read/6training/lecture/delivering_lecture.htm
8. Problem-Based Learning
   1. A strategy that begins with a realistic problem, with the content being learned in the context of the solution to that problem.
   2. http://www2.imsa.edu/programs/pbln/
9. Questioning
   1. http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/askquest.htm
   2. http://www.criticalthinking.org/resources/articles/the-role-socratic-questioning-ttl.shtml
10. Role-Playing
11. Small Group Work/Collaboration

Web-based Resources

1. WebCT: Web Course Tools (www)
2. Horizon Wimba: Classroom collaboration tool (www)
3. XanEdu: Online course packets (www)
4. Questia: Online library (www)
5. MERLOT: Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (www)

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