Essays on Teaching Excellence
The following essays are published by the The Professional & Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education as part of their Essays on Teaching Excellence series.
Volume 22 (2010-11)
- The Associates in Teaching Program: Graduate Student Development, Faculty Renewal, and Curricular Innovation
- Memo to Departments: Outcomes Assessment Really is a Good Idea
- Talking with Faculty About Cognitive Science & Learning
- Down with the SGID! Long Live the QCD!
- Selecting the Right Technology Tool: Wikis, Discussion Boards, Journals, and Blogs
- Helping Future Faculty “Come Out” As Teachers
- Mentoring Graduate Student Mentoring
- Teaching Assessment by Modeling Different Assessment Techniques
Volume 21 (2009-10)
- Facilitating Group Discussions: Understanding Group Development and Dynamics
- Transparent Alignment and Integrated Course Design
- Multiple-Choice Questions You Wouldn’t Put on a Test: Promoting Deep Learning Using Clickers
- Engaging Students, Assessing Learning—Just a Click Away
- Research-Based Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity
- Using Undergraduate Students as Teaching Assistants
- The Value of the Narrative Teaching Observation
- Deep/Surface Approaches To Learning In Higher Education: A Research Update
Volume 20 (2008-09)
- A Whole New World, A New Fantastic Point of View
- “How Did I Spend Two Hours Grading This Paper?!”: Responding to Student Writing Without Losing Your Life
- Orienting Students to an “Inside-Out Course”: Establishing a Classroom Culture of Interactive, Cooperative, Learning
- Non-science for Majors: Reforming Courses, Programs, and Pedagogy
- It Takes Discipline: Learning in a World Without Boundaries
- Anatomy of a Scientific Explanation
- Making Sure That Peer Review of Teaching Works for You
- Teaching Scientific Report Writing Using Rubrics
Volume 19 (2007-08)
- Collaboration or Plagiarism? Explaining Collaborative-Based Assignments Clearly
- Developing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Using Faculty Learning Communities
- Beyond Writing: Integrative Learning and Teaching in First-Year Seminars
- Reflections on a Departmentally Based Graduate Course on Teaching
- Role-Play: An Underused but Often Misused Active Learning Strategy
- Teaching, Learning and Spirituality in the College Classroom
- The Useful, Sensible, No-Frills Departmental Assessment Plan
- Building Assignments that Teach
Volume 18 (2006-07)
- When Disability Enters a Teacher’s Life, Must the Teacher Stop Teaching?
- Student Plagiarism: How to Maintain Academic Integrity
- Incorporating Course-Level Evidence of Student Learning into Program Assessment
- Information Literacy: Imperatives for Faculty
- When Motivating Generation Y in the Classroom
- A Microteaching Model that Maximizes Feedback, Peer Engagement, and Teaching Enhancement
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Student Writing (but Were Afraid to Ask)
- Opening the Door: Faculty Leadership in Institutional Change
Volume 17 (2005-06)
- Leveling the Field: Using Rubrics to Achieve Greater Equity in Teaching and Grading
- Laughterpiece Theatre: Humor as a Systematic Teaching Tool
- Assessing Students’ Online Learning: Strategies and Resources
- Teaching Portfolios for Graduate Students: Process, Content, Product, and Benefits
- From Passive to Active Learning: Helping Students Make the Shift
- Student Teams, Teaching, and Technology
- Practice Tests: a Practical Teaching Method
- Using Student-Centered Assessment to Enhance Learning
Volume 16 (2004-05)
- Transitions: What’s Love Got to Do with It?
- The Power of Student Stories: Connections that Enhance Learning
- PowerPoint: Possibilities and Problems
- Teaching Bioethics through Participation and Policy-Making
- Validity, Research, and Reality: Student Ratings of Instruction at the Crossroads
- Why Knowing About Disciplinary Differences Can Mean More Effective Teaching
- Teaching for Diversity and Inclusiveness in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)
- A Roadmap to Part-Time Faculty Success
Volume 15 (2003-04)
- Student Plagiarism: Are Teachers Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?
- Taking Self Assessment Seriously
- Promoting Learning through Inquiry
- Great Expectations and Challenges for Learning Objects
- Engaging the Whole Student: Interactive Theatre in the Classroom
- Engaging Faculty in New Forms of Teaching and Learning
- Self-Efficacy in College Teaching
- Encouraging Civil Behavior in Large Classes