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
- listed by topic – downloadable pdfs of Powerpoints – transcripts provided
- 19 topics
OntarioCouncil of Ontario Universities – Accessible Campus website
- Creating Accessible Lectures
- Evaluating Students and Giving Feedback
- Using PowerPoint
- Using Word Documents and/or PDFs
- and more
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
- General Classroom Strategies
- Teaching Techniques
- Supporting Your Students
- Assessment and Evaluation
- The Technology-enhanced Classroom
- Professional Development
Trinity Western University
- 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
- Course Planning
- Course Delivery
- Instructional Methods
- Assessment Methods
- Special Issues
University of Ontario: Institute of Technology, Teaching and Learning Centre
- 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
- Focus on Active Learning (pdf)
- Case-based Learning
- Field-based Learning
- Inquiry-based Learning
- Lab-based Learning
- Problem-based Learning
- Experiential and Community Service Learning
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)
- Sept 2, 2015 – Four-Step Strategy to Create Active Learning in any Learning Space – Online, F2F or Blended
- Pedagogy Unbound David Gooblar “Discover practical tips for this semester” (also writes same column for Chronicle of Higher Education (from James Lang, Small Teachings, chp9)
- Faculty Focus – free service from Magna Publications
- Podcast – Teaching in Higher Ed, Bonni Stachowiak speaks with author, innovator, researcher in higher education – 30-40 min interview