Improving Teaching Efficiency and Effectiveness



Better Teaching with Less Time and Stress:

Improving Teaching Efficiency and Effectiveness

FAU Faculty Workshop

February 27, 2004

Lynn Appleton: Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters (7-3813; appleton@fau.edu)

Timothy Lenz: Teaching Learning Center (7-3214; lenz@fau.edu)

Thomas Pusateri, Assessment Director (7-1006; pusateri@fau.edu)

Links to Web sites on workshop topics:

Teaching pedagogies such as classroom assessment techniques and scoring rubrics:



Discipline-specific sites on teaching and assessment for colleges and departments:



Teaching skills and attitudes (e.g., information literacy, writing, technology, and ethics):



Recommended readings:

Angelo, T. A., & Cross, K. P. (1993). Classroom assessment techniques: A handbook for college teachers (2nd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Arter, J. & McTighe, J. (2001). Scoring rubrics in the classroom: Using performance criteria for assessing and improving student performance. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Bransford, J. D., Brown, A., L., & Cocking R. R. (Eds.) (2000). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school (Expanded Edition). Washington, DC: National Academies Press. (Available for online reading at )

McKeachie, W. J. (2002). Teaching tips (11th ed.). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.

Other resources at FAU:

Instructional Technology Support Services (ITSS)

Homepage – Academic Information – Distance Learning

Faculty/Staff Training (Blackboard, Office, Web design)

Turn-It-In (plagiarism detector)

Library:

Services:

Course reserves

Interlibrary loan

Distance learning services

Instructional services/Workshops (Information literacy)

University Center for Excellence in Writing:



Upcoming faculty workshops

Sponsor by the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the Teaching Learning Center, and the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Analysis:

FRI MAR 19, 2 – 4 PM (BC-126): Critical Thinking in the Classroom

FRI APR 16, Noon – 2 PM (PA-101): Promoting Active and Interactive Learning in Large Classes

Quick Tips

Locating syllabi from other institutions (using a Google search)

Example Google search: syllabus “principles of management”

What are our Peer Institutions doing?



Centers for Teaching and Learning

Writing Centers

Writing Across the Curriculum

Assessing Academic Programs

Using Excel to create a gradebook (found via Google search: Excel gradebook)







Use Google search for examples and demonstrations for your classes:

Google search: classroom demonstration "chemical bonding"

Google search: classroom exercise "Spanish culture"

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