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Bibliography on teaching:

Top 15 Short Publications on Teaching

Collaborative learning:

Working in Groups

Course planning:

Course Design Tip-sheet
Four Questions to Pose to Your Syllabus

Discussion leading:

Some Different Types of Questioning

Techniques for Responding

Ten Strategies for Effective Discussion Leading

Twenty Ways To Make Lectures More Participatory (Tips for Teachers)

Diversity:

Class in the Classroom

Managing Hot Moments in the Classroom

Teaching in Racially Diverse College Classrooms (Tips for Teachers)

Teaching in Racially Diverse College Classrooms (Executive Summary)

Women and Men in the Classroom: Inequality and Its Remedies (Catherine Krupnick)

Women in the Classroom (Tips for Teachers)

Evaluation of teaching: (also see the webpage on Early Feedback)

Early Feedback from Sections and Courses (PDF file with three sample forms)

Examinations:

Grading Papers

Tips on Taking Midterms

Grading:

Grading Papers

Group dynamics:

Managing Hot Moments in the Classroom

Working in Groups

Head Teaching Fellows:

Catering List - Takeout for TF Meetings

Organizing Large Courses: Information for Head Teaching Fellows (Nancy Sultan)

Section Preparation: Some Suggestions for TF Meetings.

Tips for Running Efficient Teaching Fellow Meetings (Tom Jenkins)

Lecturing:

A Flexible Alternative to PowerPoint

Twenty Ways To Make Lectures More Participatory (Tips for Teachers)

Microteaching (practice teaching):

Teaching Fellows Talk about Microteaching

What Is Microteaching?

Microteaching Scenarios from DEAS

Postdoctoral fellowships (Cabot Fellows):

Alessandro Massarotti tells about his experiences as a Cabot Fellow

Noel Bisson tells about her experiences as a Cabot Fellow

Recommendations for students:

Writing Your First Letter of Recommendation (Tips for Teachers)

Writing Letters of Recommendation (Cynthia Verba)

Services offered by the Bok Center:

Bok Center Services (complete list)

Bok Center Services for Faculty

Bok Center Services for Individual Courses

Syllabus planning:

Course Design Tip-sheet
Four Questions to Pose to Your Syllabus

Teaching portfolios:

Introduction: Creating a Teaching Portfolio

Components of a Teaching Portfolio

Teaching Related Questions for Academic Job Interviews

Documenting Student Evaluations for the Teaching Portfolio

Technology

A Flexible Alternative to PowerPoint

A Quick Introduction to A/V in the Classroom

Tips for teachers:

Planning Lively Science Sections (a few tips)

Responding to Response Papers (Tips for Teachers)

Teaching in Racially Diverse College Classrooms (Tips for Teachers)

Teaching in Racially Diverse College Classrooms (Executive Summary)

Ten Strategies for Effective Discussion Leading

Twenty Ways To Make Lectures More Participatory (Tips for Teachers)

Women in the Classroom (Tips for Teachers)

Writing Letters of Recommendation (Tips for Teachers)

Videotaping a class:

Eight Teaching Fellows Tell What It's Like to be Videotaped

Videotaping: A Tool for Teachers (Jennie Myers)

Writing:

Grading Papers

Responding to Response Papers (Tips for Teachers)

Techniques for Responding

Peer Response to Student Papers

Self-Assessment of Student Papers

Self-Assessment of Writing (long form)

Self-Assessment of Writing (short form)