Effective Teaching Strategies

Effective Teaching Strategies

Teaching effectively involves not only the use of tools, techniques, and strategies to optimize student learning but an understanding of context, in particular how your students learn, how they process information, what motivates them to learn more, and what impedes the learning process. Click on the links below for helpful tips and resources. 

RESOURCES  :

Effective Lectures

• In Defense of Lecturing, Carnegie Foundation
• How to Create Memorable Lectures   , Stanford
• Delivering Powerful Lectures , USC
• Delivering a Lecture , UC Berkeley

Strategies for Teaching Large Classes

• Energizing Large Classes  , USC
• Teaching Large Classes – Best Practices   , Brown
• Western Washington University , Washington State
• Teaching Large Lecture Classes , Faculty Learning Community Workshop, FAU
• Books and Articles
• Classroom Response System (CRS)

Effective Questions

• Asking More Effective Questions  , USC
• Answering and Asking Questions   , Kansas State

Effective Discussions

• Discussions  , Vanderbilt
• Discussions   , Carnegie Mellon
• Guidelines for Group Participation ,   USC
• Using Class Discussion to Meet Your Teaching Goals   , Stanford

Engaging Students

• Capturing and Directing the Motivation to Learn  , Stanford
• Engaging Your Students in a Learner-Centered Classroom , USC

Effective Practices for Student Learning

• What all First-Year Students should know, Shepherd University
• Six Ways to Make your Teaching more Effective , UC Berkeley

Dealing with Problems/Difficult Situations

• Classroom Dynamics, Harvard
• Tough Problems: Difficult Students , Texas

Teaching to Diversity

• Teaching Students with Disabilities, UC Berkeley
• Gender Issues in Teaching   , Stanford
• Gender Dynamics in the Classroom , Ryerson University
• Diversity in the Classroom , UNC CH
• Teaching in Racially Diverse College Classrooms , Harvard
• Sensitive Topics in the Classroom , UC Berkeley