Improving General Teaching Skills
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Faculty Development
General Teaching
- Top 21.5 Teaching Tips by Jay Rasmussen and Danny Swensen (narrated PowerPoint)
- TEDxEast - Nancy Duarte Uncovers Common Structures of Greatest Communicators, 11.11.10
Building Classroom Community
- Community Building by Katherine Nevins, from Engaged Teaching and Learning
- What Did I See You Say? The Power of the Non-Verbals in the Classroom Experience by Dan Rotach, from Talk about Teaching
- Facilitating Classroom Discussion by Nikki Daniels, from Engaged Teaching and Learning
- Caring Matters Most by Robin Hasslen, from Faculty Excellence Awards
- Building Community in an Online Environment by Jay Rasmussen, Joyce LeMay, Matt Putz, and Ripley Smith
Teaching the Whole Person in Your Discipline
Using Discipline-based Best Practices
- Facilitating Lab Experiences by Teresa DeGolier, from Engaged Teaching and Learning
Developing Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Experiential Education by Karen McKinney, from Engaged Teaching and Learning
- Inquiry Based Learning by Patti Paulson, from Engaged Teaching and Learning
- Making Thinking Visible by Danny Swenson and Jay Rasmussen (Narrated PowerPoint)
Assisting Students in Understanding Discipline Area Text and Using Academic Language
- Strategies for Increasing Student Engagement Part 4: Engaged Learning Strategies to Assist Students in Comprehension of Content Area Text by Jay Rasmussen, from Talk about Teaching
- Faculty Development Workshop, August 24, 2016: Just Do It: Reading Version
Developing, Implementing and Assessing Student Writing
- Bethel University Writing Center website
- Writing Across the Curriculum by Marion Larson, from Engaged Teaching and Learning
- Buried in Papers: Best Practices for Giving Effective and Efficient Feedback on Student Papers by April Schmidt, from Talk about Teaching
- Ignoring Comma Splices: Is there a place for bad grammar in good learning? with April Schmidt, from Teaching and Learning Roundtable, Writing #1, 11.25.13
Facilitating Learning Beyond the Classroom
- Learning While Serving... A Different Way to Think of 'Service Learning' by Michael Dreher, from Faculty Excellence Awards
- Study Abroad by Karen Drake and David Muhovich from Engaged Teaching and Learning
- Culturally Responsive Teaching by Ruben Rivera from Engaged Teaching and Learning
- Connections Between Culturally Responsive Instruction, Experiential Education and Study Abroad by Ruben Rivera, Karen McKinney, and David Muhovich from Talk about Teaching
- Advising Partnerships: Connecting to the Office of Career Services by Dave Broza from Talk about Teaching
- MVP Programming: A Bystander Empowerment Model to Address Gender Violence by Andy Johnson from Talk about Teaching
Course Design
- Syllabi Guidelines (doc)
- Best Practices in Online/Hybrid Course Design, from Teaching and Learning Roundtable, 7.30.13
- Best Practices in Facilitating Online/Hybrid Instruction, from Teaching and Learning Roundtable, 10.28.13
- Grouping for Success by Sara Wyse
- Community Engagement and Intercultural Learning: What’s the Connection? by Carol Hargate, Teaching and Learning Roundtable, 9.24.14