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Teaching Toolbox

The Teaching Toolbox contains practical ideas, valuable links and instructional solutions to help you improve your teaching. Resources range from a step-by-step guide to writing learning objectives to detailed active learning strategies and useful technology tips.

Instructional Strategies

• Active Learning
• Becoming a Reflective Practitioner
• Teaching Tips from Experienced Teachers
  • Professor David G. Myers offers practical and humorous tips on being a great teacher.
• Curriculum Development
  • Writing Learning Objectives
  • Course Development and Connexions
• Diversity
  • Illinois Diversity Videos
• Facilitating Discussions
• Large Classes
• Teams and Groups
• Working with TA's and RA's

Technology

• Course websites
• Library
• The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
• Vanderbilt University’s Center for Teaching podcast series.
• International Technology Education Association offers technology-driven innovations for higher education.
• References for Technology and Teaching

Assessment and Feedback

• Informal Early Feedback
  • Slide show highlighting main points
  • An example of a form to elicit feedback
  • Another example of a form to elicit feedback
• Understanding ICES
  • Slide show on the University’s ICES
• Peer Review
  • Peer Review of Teaching
  • Peer Observation for Teaching Assessment

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Helping Students

Great teachers promote student development through varied pathways. Use these LASTA how-to’s on maximizing office hours, capitalizing on diverse perspectives and locating university resources to benefit student learning. 

• Academic Integrity
• Enhancing Student Learning
  • Making the Most of Office Hours
  • Aids to Student Success
• FERPA
• Politics in the Classroom

University Resources

• Finding Help on Campus
  • Office of the Dean of Students
  • Emergency dean
  • Campus Police
  • Conflict resolution
  • Computing support
  • Career Center
  • Office of Student Financial Aid
  • Student Accounts and Cashiers
  • Pay my bill
  • Student employment
  • Student Affairs
  • International Student Affairs
  • Minority Student Affairs
  • Counseling Center
  • Computing acceptable use policy
• McKinley Health Center
• DRES (Disability Resources and Educational Services)

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Your Career at Illinois

The LAS Teaching Academy wants faculty to thrive at Illinois.  This section contains disparate, yet topical, information on many areas touching faculty development. Scroll down to see what we have to offer on matters such as promotion and tenure, teaching awards and university guidelines.

• Teaching Awards
  • Office of Provost and the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Grants and Awards for Teaching Enhancement and Course Development
  • Teaching Advancement Board for Grants and Awards for Teaching Excellence and Innovation

  • Application for 2010-2011

• Course Specifics at Illinois
  • Gen Ed
  • New Course
  • Final Exams Policy
  • Attendance
  • Grading
• Promotion and Tenure
• Helpful Tips on Constructing Your Teaching Statement
• Mentoring
  • University of Massachusetts at Amherst has excellent material for both mentors and mentees.
• “Teaching” When you Cancel a Class

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Links

Electronic resources at your fingertips! This page provides information on various campus teaching resources and links to centers of excellence, as well as publications and listservs.

Publications/Listservs

• Chronicle of Higher Education
  This weekly publication offers news-worthy stories that cover all facets of academia.
• Inside Higher Education
  This online resource provides information on “news, opinion and jobs” in the higher education arena.
• The Tomorrows-Professor (SM) Mailing List
  Email subscription (free of charge) that centers on faculty development. There are 100 annual messages.
• ERIC
  National Information Clearinghouse on Higher Education.
• Journals on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Settings
  List of teaching and learning related journals and books within the UIUC community.
• The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
  The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is a policy and research center devoted to teaching and higher education.
• The Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL)

Centers of Teaching Excellence

• Harvard University’s Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
  This site offers a myriad of resources from planning your syllabus to writing letters of recommendation.
• Instructional Development Sites Worldwide (Dalhousie University)
  Links to teaching centers worldwide.
• Online University Teaching Centers (University of Kansas)
  University of Kansas has an outstanding collection of teaching resources.
• Searle Center for Teaching Excellence (Northwestern University)
  Searle lists several bibliographies related to Teaching and Learning, Making Lectures More Interactive, Stimulating and Guiding Student Discussions, and Learning Theory and Student Motivation.
• Faculty Development Services (University of Pittsburgh)
  University of Pittsburgh offers excellent teaching and learning resources.

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