Teaching Strategies and Resources

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This page is a collection of topics on teaching strategies compiled by teachers at WSU. Also included on this page is a listing of general resources to support improving teaching and learning. Topic resources can be found on the topic page.

Each topic below (in blue) leads to an article page that has been created and managed by teachers at WSU (and beyond). Titles in red are topics that a teacher has expressed interest in but has yet to be developed. Feel free to edit information contained on these pages by clicking on "log In" in the upper right hand portion of the page. Then click on the "EDIT" tab and edit away.

Strategies

• Assessing Learning
  • Testing and Beyond

• Assignment Design and Use

• Supporting Collaborative Learning
  • Using Group Work to Support Learning

• Communication: Effective skills for listening and teaching

• Course Design

• Critical thinking

• Cross-Cultural Teaching and Learning

• Competing With Distractions in the Classroom
  • Dealing With Noise in the Classroom

• Dealing with Difficult Behaviors

• Being Explicit (especially with first year students)

• Getting Familiar with the Classroom (setting, technology, etc.)

• Grading
  • Grading Oral Presentations

• Dealing with Harassment

• Leading Lab Sections

• Understanding Learners
  • Gaining background on your students
  • How People Learn
  • Learning styles and stages

• Lecturing Effectively

• Lesson Planning

• Finding and using Teaching and Learning Models

• Motivating Students
  • Student Engagement
  • Getting Students to Prepare for Class

• Organizational Skills
  • Checklist for organization
  • Managing the pace of the class
  • Organizing materials: Progressive learning with a conclusion/closing (for class and semester)

• Using Questions Effectively
  • Developing Good Questions

• Developing Rapport/Respect

• Reflecting on Teaching and Learning
  • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
  • Dialogue with colleagues who have taught the course
  • Finding a safe space and audience to share lessons learned
  • Creating a Teaching Portfolio

• Finding/meeting the Program/Department/College Requirements for the course

• Promoting Rich Discussion

• Finding, Evaluating, and Using Resources

• Dealing with Stress

• Syllabus_Design

• Supporting/Enhancing Learning with Technology
  • Technology for Learning
  • Using Wikis For Learning
    • Stubbing out as a Teaching Tool

• 1st Day/Week Strategies

Resources

Resources for the specific stategies listed above can be found on that page. If a page has not yet been established, feel free to create the page (Click on the link).

Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology

Resources for TAs

Teaching Toolkit Series

References

Strategies and Resources at the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan