Master Teacher Initiative > Teaching - Tip Archive

Academic Integrity

• Handling Cheating

• An Ethical Breach by any Other Name . . .

Disruptive Behavior

• Disruptive  Behaviors in the Classroom: The Students' Perspective

• Disruptive Student Behavior in the Classroom 

• Fifty* Ways to Disrupt your Students 

Diversity and Teaching

• Faculty and Diversity-Related Course Content

• Teaching Diversity

Effective Teacher Attributes

• Faculty-to-Faculty Classroom Courtesy Tips

• Content Knowledge: A Barrier to Teacher Development

• Impact of Instructional Dimension on Student Achievement

• Good Teaching: The Top Ten Requirements, Richard Leblanc, York University, Ontario

• Laptops: A College Essential, But for Class?

Exam Design

• Designing Tests to Maximize Learning

• Interpreting Biserial Correlation Scores

Humour and Education

• Humour and Education

• Looking Like a Professor

• Mindset List 2011

• Wear Sunscreen

Inspirational Materials Related to Education

• Commencement Address by Steve Jobs

• Three Years and Counting

 Learning Styles and Strategies

• Achieving Success with Adult Learners

• Leaders with Incentives: Groups That Performed Better

• Learning Styles and Strategies, Richard M. Felder and Barbara A. Soloman, North Carolina University

• Teaching and Learning, PowerPoint Presentation by Frank Vattano

Motivating Students

• General Strategies For Motivation

• Motivating Students Through Song

Outside the Classroom

• The Accountability Conundrum

• Beware of Using Social-Networking Sites to Monitor Students, Lawyers Say

• The Faculty Role in Admissions

• Letters of Recommendation

• What Teachers Learn When They Take Classes

• Where Are the Boys?

• Where the Girls Are

Remarkable is . . .

• The Power of Small Steps

• The Fearless Flight of Little Max

Tales from the Trenches

• One Faculty Member's Solution to Disruptive Student Behaviors

Teaching Evaluations

• Hemlock Available in the Faculty Lounge

• Student Evaluation of College Teaching (pdf file)

Teaching Techniques

• A Closing Routine

• All in a Day's Work

• Building Bridges Between Research and Undergraduate Teaching

• Grade and Go

• Group Projects . . .  Helpful Hints

• Group Quizzes: More Positive Outcomes

• Handling Student's Emails

• How About a Quick One?

• Learning Students' Names

• Stop it! You're Killing Me! Retooling Your Lecture

• 7 Strategies to Enhance Video Use in the College Classroom

• 7 Strategies for Enlisting Experts

• The "Change-Up": A Good Pitch to Have in Your Teaching Repertoire

• The Professor's Voice

• Visualization

Tenure and Promotion

• Why Tenure is Indispensable

• Changes in the Academic Profession 

Understanding Students

• A Brain-Friendly Environment for Learning

• College students think they're so special!

• The "Google generation" not so hot at googling, after all

• How About a Quick One?

• Is It Age or IT: First Steps Toward Understanding the Net Generation

• Freshman Survey Research Brief (pdf file)

• Freshman Survey Norms - Summary (PPT file)

• The Paradox of the Chinese Learner

• Tips to Improve Interaction Among the Generations

Value of Education

• Are Master's Degrees Worth Millions?