ComS 222/221: Teaching Resources Topic List
On-line
Teaching Resources
Learning
Styles Assessment
Teaching
Styles Assessment
Evaluation
Resources
Learning
Theories and Concepts
Collaborative
and Cooperative Learning
Critical
and Creative Thinking
On-line Teaching
Resources
Teaching Tips Index
This page is an outstanding practical resource for teaching
ideas.
It is well organized, easily accessed,
and constantly developing. It is a product of the Hawaii
Community
College system.
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm
CSUS Center for Teaching and Learning
Lots of useful links and materials for developing your teaching.
See especially, "CTL Faculty Resources"
http://www.csus.edu/ctl/
The Ohio State University Office of Faculty and TA Development.
Use this page for the teaching resources, articles and links.
http://ftad.osu.edu/
(Scroll left frame to "Resources on
Teaching")
Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (Penn State
University)
When you get to this site, click "search." You will find a large and
sensibly categorized list of
resources for just about any area of college instruction that you are
interested in developing.
http://www.schreyerinstitute.psu.edu/resources/
Learning
Styles Assessment
The Rogers Indicator of Multiple Intelligences
This is an interactive assessment of your intelligences. The
theoretical
ground is Howard Gardner's work.
NOTE: This test will not work with AOL's browser. Please use IE
or Netscape version 4 or better. Also, JavaScript
must be turned on in your browser's preferences (this is the default
setting).
http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/b/x/bxb11/MI/MIQuiz.htm
Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire
Barbara A. Soloman, and Richard M. Felder, North Carolina State
University
This particular version allows on-line scoring and immediate feedback
for students. The feedback could
easily to emailed to you if you wished to look at the data yourself.
http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html
VARK (Visual/Aural/Read-Write/Kinesthetic) Questionnaire
What is your preferred learning modality? Learn about how you
learn using this brief questionnaire. This questionnaire
aims to find out something about your preferences for the way you work
with information. You will have a preferred
learning style and one part of that learning style is your preference
for the intake and output of ideas and information.
How you learn has an impact on how you teach.
http://www.vark-learn.com/english/index.asp
Teaching
Styles (a complement to learning styles)
Grasha-Reichmann Student
Learning Style Inventory
This tool was developed from Tony Grasha's book, Teaching with Style.
http://longleaf.net/teachingstyle.html
Evaluation Resources
Teaching
Goals Inventory
"The Teaching Goals
Inventory (TGI) is a self-assessment of instructional goals. Its
purpose is
threefold: (1) to help college teachers become more aware of what they
want to
accomplish in individual courses; (2) to help faculty locate Classroom
Assessment Techniques they can adapt and use to assess how well they
are
achieving their teaching and learning goals; and (3) to provide a
starting
point for discussion of teaching and learning goals among colleagues."
http://www.uiowa.edu/~centeach/tgi/
FLAG: Field-tested
Learning
Assessment Guide
Traditional testing methods have been limited measures of
student learning, and equally importantly, of limited value for guiding
student learning. 
Innovative assessmen methods emphasize
deeper levels of learning and give instructors valuable feedback during
a course.
http://www.flaguide.org/
FAST: Free Assessment Summary
Tool
"Traditionally, teaching assessments are conducted at the end of a course - a practice precluding students from
offering constructive feedback while they are still in the course.
However, conducting instructor-designed and
administered web-based course assessments opens a proactive dialogue
with students about teaching, the
course, and the entire learning process. The FAST project is
committed to providing users with a simple online tool for
assessing their students' impressions of their courses and their
teaching." (From FAST home page)
This is an interesting and relatively easy-to-use tool that provides
real opportunity to get the kind of data you want to
chart a course to the most effective learning situation you can
provide.
http://www.getfast.ca/
The College Quarterly
Essential Elements of 4 Teaching Methods: Linking
Rubrics to Teaching
The article includes 4 comprehensive rubrics for the teaching methods
of lecture, discussion, case, and role play.
Learning
Theories and Concepts
Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into
Practice
Database by Greg Kearsley
The database contains brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning
and instruction.
These theories can also be accessed by learning domains and concepts.
http://www.gwu.edu/~tip/index.html
Emotional
Intelligence and Pedagogy
R W Picard, S Papert, W Bender, B Blumberg, C Breazeal, D
Cavallo, T Machover, M Resnick, D Roy and C Strohecker
Affective
Learning--A Manifesto
Abstract
The use of the computer as a model, metaphor, and modelling tool has
tended to privilege the ‘cognitive’ over the ‘affective’ by
engendering theories in which thinking and learning are viewed as
information processing and affect is ignored or marginalised. In the
last decade there has been an accelerated flow of findings in multiple
disciplines supporting a view of affect as complexly intertwined with
cognition in guiding rational behaviour, memory retrieval,
decision-making, creativity, and more. It is time to redress the
imbalance by developing theories and technologies in which affect and
cognition are appropriately integrated with one another. This paper
describes work in that direction at the MIT Media Lab and projects a
large perspective of new research in which computer technology is used
to redress the imbalance that was caused (or, at least, accentuated) by
the computer itself.
Collaborative
and Cooperative Learning
The Cooperative Learning Center, University of Minnesota
"The Cooperative Learning Center is a Reseach and Training Center
focusing on how students should interact with each other as they learn
and the skills needed to interact effectively."
http://www.co-operation.org/
See: "Cooperative
Learning" for an overview.
Collaborative and Cooperative Learning ExploredTed Panitz, Cape Cod Community College
http://home.capecod.net/~tpanitz/
Note:When you reach this page, check out: Ted's
Cooperative learning e-book and Ted's
articles on cooperative learning
Critical
and Creative Thinking
Mark Stoner. California State University, Sacramento
I Never Thought Like This Before!": Apprenticing Critical Thinking
This essay lays explains the necessity for thinking in multiple ways
about any topic in order to facilitate
well-grounded observations. The essay outlines four kinds of critical
thinking: observation, analysis, synthesis/evaluation. Finally, how
these are used within an
apprenticeship
approach in a course in message analysis is explained.
http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/stonerm/ApprenticeCTWebVersion.html