Teaching Strategies – Teaching Tips

A collection of resources and pages from educational institutions (primarily Canadian) regarding different teaching strategies and techniques.

Teaching Tips – CANADA

Conestoga College – Teaching and Learning Centre (?) – myTLC

Weekly Teaching Tips

  • listed by topic – downloadable pdfs of Powerpoints – transcripts provided
  • 19 topics

OntarioCouncil of Ontario Universities – Accessible Campus website

Teaching Tips

McGill University – Teaching for Learning – blog post

Learning to Teach:  10 Tips for Professors – March 21, 2014, Chris Buddle

  • interesting article – was voted up the blog as a favourite – like the structure of this teaching blog – have subscribed Dec 2016 – we’ll see what nuggets I can find.

Ryerson University – Learning & Teaching Office

Teaching Tips Handouts

  • General Classroom Strategies
  • Teaching Techniques
  • Supporting Your Students
  • Assessment and Evaluation
  • The Technology-enhanced Classroom
  • Professional Development

Trinity Western University

Teaching Tips Bulletin

  • Preparing Learning Outcomes, Activities and Assessment (pdfs, pptx)
  • Cognition: Matching Learning Activities with Levels of Thinking (pdfs, docs)
  • Affective: Matching Learning Activities with Values Outcomes (pdfs, docs)
  • Psychomotor:  Teaching Students ‘How to’ (docs)
  • Testing Students at the Level you Taught Them (docs, pdfs)
  • Ongoing Issues (docs, pdf)

University of New Brunswick – Centre for Enhanced Teaching & Learning

Teaching Tips page

  • Course Planning
  • Course Delivery
  • Instructional Methods
  • Assessment Methods
  • Special Issues

University of Ontario: Institute of Technology, Teaching and Learning Centre

Teaching Tips

  • Learning Preferences (4 articles)
  • Teaching Strategies (7 articles)
  • Assessments (4 articles)
  • Teaching Contexts (8 articles)
  • Difficult Situations (5 articles)
  • Technology (4 articles)
  • Other Teaching Tips…

Teaching Tips Series  University of Waterloo – Centre for Teaching Excellence

Teaching Tips:  a searchable collection (by topic or category) of teaching tips that describe ideas and practical methods for teaching – more than 100 teaching tips

Teaching Tips – USA

Teaching (Instructional) Strategies – CANADA

Queen’s University, Centre for Teaching and Learning – Teaching and Assessment Strategies

University of Toronto – Centre for Teaching Support and Innovation

Teaching (Instructional) Strategies – USA

Carnegie Mellon University – Eberly Center – Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation

Design and Teach a Course – Instructional Strategies

  • from Lectures to Independent Student Study projects
  • very traditional approach

University of North Carolina – Charlotte

Other – independent educators websites/blogs/podcasts

Debbie Morrison, Online Learning Insights (started 2012)