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Spring 2010

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Spring 2006 | Summer 2006 | Fall 2006
Spring 2005 | Summer 2005 | Fall 2005

Spring 2010 Teaching Tips

Tip # Subject
Teaching Essentials Week 0 Setting Up Your On-Campus Website
Teaching Essentials Week 1 Jump Starting the First Couple of Weeks
Teaching Essentials Week 2 Lesson Planning
Teaching Essentials Week 3 Striking a Good Balance in Providing Feedback
Teaching Essentials Week 4 Progress Grades
Teaching Essentials Week 5 Asking Engaging Questions
Teaching Essentials Week 6 Feedback In A Flash
Teaching Essentials Week 7 Dealing With Conflict in the Classroom

Refining Your Teaching Week 1 Getting Everyone Focused in the First Five Minutes
Refining Your Teaching Week 2 Keeping the Spring in Spring: Strategies for Maintaining Enthusiasm
Refining Your Teaching Week 3 Same Course, Different Issues: Adapting your Plan
Refining Your Teaching Week 4 Same Class, Different Styles: Facilitating Student Interaction
Refining Your Teaching Week 5 Listen to Learn
Refining Your Teaching Week 6 Aligning Students' Expectations with Grading Standards
Refining Your Teaching Week 7 Easing Student Stress

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NEW! Podcasts | Fall 2009 Inspire to Aspire Teaching Tips

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Tip # Subject
Inspire to Aspire: Part 1 Putting Grades in Context
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Inspire to Aspire: Part 2 How Does Learning Feel?
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Inspire to Aspire: Part 3 Using Milestones to Ease Stress and Mark Progress
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Inspire to Aspire: Part 4 Going Home
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Fall 2009 Teaching Tips

Tip # Subject
Teaching Essentials Week 1 First Day Jitters
Teaching Essentials Week 2 Four Step Lesson Planning
Teaching Essentials Week 3 AAU’s Unique Student Body
Teaching Essentials Week 4 Lectures & Demos: Help Students Get the Most Out of Them
Teaching Essentials Week 5 Timesaving Ideas for Grading and Feedback
Teaching Essentials Week 6 Getting Students to Class
Teaching Essentials Week 7 Using Rubrics for Grading and Feedback
Teaching Essentials Week 8 Who's Working Harder?
Teaching Essentials Week 9 Three Steps to Better Critiques
Teaching Essentials Week 10 Engaging and Reengaging
Teaching Essentials Week 11 Teaching to All Learning Styles
Teaching Essentials Week 12 How Do I Know My Students Are Learning
Teaching Essentials Week 13 Making the Most of Time
Teaching Essentials Week 13A Detecting and Managing Stress
Teaching Essentials Week 14 What Should I Do On the Last Day?
Teaching Essentials Week 15 Five Minute Check In

Refining Your Teaching Week 1 Apply Your Creative Sensibility in the Classroom—Part 1
Refining Your Teaching Week 2 Apply Your Creative Sensibility in the Classroom—Part 2
Refining Your Teaching Week 3 Qualities of Great Teachers
Refining Your Teaching Week 4 Avoiding Grade Disputes
Refining Your Teaching Week 5 Saving Paper: Going Electronic with Grades and Evaluations
Refining Your Teaching Week 6 The Three Students at the Back of the Class
Refining Your Teaching Week 7 Student-led Lectures
Refining Your Teaching Week 8 Addressing Writing in Art Classes
Refining Your Teaching Week 9 Effectively Using ESL Support
Refining Your Teaching Week 10 Listening to Students
Refining Your Teaching Week 11 Encouragement in the Face of Discouragement
Refining Your Teaching Week 12 Ability, Sensitivity, Inclination: Three Elements of “Good Thinking”
Refining Your Teaching Week 13 Inspire to Aspire - Part 1: Putting Grades in Context
Refining Your Teaching Week 13A Inspire to Aspire - Part 2: How Does Learning Feel?
Refining Your Teaching Week 14 Inspire to Aspire - Part 3: Using Milestones to Ease Stress and Mark Progress
Refining Your Teaching Week 15 Inspire to Aspire - Part 4: Going Home

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Summer 2009 Teaching Tips

Tip # Subject
1. Preparing Students to Learn Twice as Fast in Summer
2. Streamline, Stay on Task and on Topic
3. Half Way through the Term: How's it going?
4. Grand Central Station for Teaching Resources

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Spring 2009 Teaching Tips

Tip # Subject
1. Tips for the First Day of Class
2. Getting Off on the Right Foot: Assignment Templates
3. Teaching Styles: How Do You Teach?
4. Three Steps for Preparing Students for Field Trips & Guest Speakers
5. Who's Working Harder?
6. Making the Most of the Board
7. Helping Students Meet Professional Expectations
8. Using Assignments to Build Student Involvement
9. Time Management for Teachers
10. Handling Absences
11. ARCS for Motivation

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Fall 2008 Teaching Tips

Tip # Subject
1. First Day Jitters
2. Strategies for a Successful Semester
3. Using KWL for KnoWLedge
4. Shake up your groupwork with a Jigsaw
5. Rubrics and Grading
6. Using Tests and Quizzes to Measure Progress
7. The Cycle of Communication
8. Review: Looping Back
9. Tools to Foster Creativity
10. Helping At-Risk and Failing Students
11. Keep the Flow Going with Active Learning
12. Reflective Teaching
13. Interactive Lecturing
14. Finishing Strong
13. Asking for Student Feedback
14. New Year’s Resolutions

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Summer 2008 Teaching Tips

Tip # Subject
1. First-Day Priorities
2. Surviving and Thriving in Summer School
3. Teaching to All Students
4. The Last Class: A Bridge to What Follows

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Spring 2008 Teaching Tips

Tip # Subject
1. The First Day Experience
2. A Motivating Start
3. Balancing Teacher & Student Critiques
4. Ongoing Grading & Feedback
5. The Creative Process
6. Respect in the Classroom
7. Transforming Information into Knowledge
8. Attitude Alchemy
9. Feedback in a Flash!
10. Spicing Up Student Presentations
11. Engaging and Reengaging
12. How do rubrics affect student learning?
13. Greater Expectations
14. What should I do on the last day?

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Fall 2007 Teaching Tips

Tip # Subject
1. Designing a Course
2. What is Active Learning?
3. How Do I Know My Students Are Learning?
4. Every Minute Counts
5. Default Grading (& How To Avoid It)
6. Learning From Other Teachers
7. Three Steps to Better Techniques
8. Asking Great Questions
9. Academic Issue or Conduct Issue?
10. The "Change-up" - Re-engaging Students
11. Teaching in the Computer Lab Classroom
12. Lectures and Demos: Help Students Get the Most Out of Them
13. The Art of Critical Thinking
14. Music & Other Strategies to Ease Stress
15. Final Grading Dilemmas: Advice from the Pros

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Summer 2007 Teaching Tips

Tip # Subject
1. Achieving Succes in Your Summer Class
2. Keeping Your Grading on Target
3. Checking In with Your Students
4. Reviewing to Make Learning Meaningful

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Spring 2007 Teaching Tips

Tip # Subject
1. What are your students’ attitudes and abilities?
2. The best defense is a good offense: proactively meeting classroom challenges
3. Setting up a computerized gradebook?
4. Getting Students Involved: Using Critique Notebooks
5. Forward-Looking Assessment
6. Launching discussions with think-write-pair-share
7. Getting Students to Class: Improving Timely Attendance
8. Mixing It Up After Midterms
9. Getting Down to Business in the First Few Minutes of Class
10. Striking a Good Balance in Providing Feedback
11. After a Collective Tragedy: Helpful Tips for Faculty
12. Practicing Kindness and Compassion in the Classroom
13. Teaching to Different Learning Levels
14. Shifting Your Focus from "Information" to "Knowledge"
15. Looking Back, Planning Forward

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Fall 2006 Teaching Tips

Tip # Subject
1. The First Two Weeks: Tips from the "trenches"
2. Balancing the Role of the Teacher During Critiques
3. Peripheral Considerations in Grading
4. Modeling and Teaching Good Habits
5. No Apologies
6. Grabbing and Keeping your Students Attention in Computer Labs
7. Working with Non-Traditional Students
8. Use and Care of Your Voice
9. Post Midterm Meetings
10. The Post-Midterm Squirm
11. When There’s Just No Way to Pass
12. The Connection Between School & Work
13. Stress Happens
14. 3 Steps Towards Active Listening
15. Addressing & Avoiding Final Grade Disputes

Summer 2006 Teaching Tips

Tip # Subject
1. Time Management for Summer
2. Grading with Empathy and Clarity
3. Incorporating/Making the Most of Alternative Activities
4. The Last Day of Class: Providing Closure

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Spring 2006 Teaching Tips

Tip # Subject
1. Mapping the Class
2. How do I know students are learning?
3. Getting Organized
4. What are Critique Notebooks?
5. Teaching Collaboration
6. Teaching to Gen Y
7. Rubrics Revisited
8. Move Beyond Cool
9. Learning Snapshots
10. Communicating with Online Students
11. Dealing with Conflict in the Classroom
12. Academic Freedom
13. Senioritis Spring Fever
14. Networking
15. Preparing Students for Lifelong Learning

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Fall 2005 Teaching Tips

Tip # Subject
1. Creating a Comfortable Learning Environment
2. Discussing World Events and Handlng Hot Topics
3. Responding to Late Students
4. Classroom Assessment Techniques
5. Guest Speakers
6. Handling late Assignments
7. Grading Discussion
8. Field Trips
9. Using Color in Teaching & Learning
10. Varying the Critique
11. Using Space Creatively
12. Presenting Final Work
13. Recapping Semester
14. Dealing with Plagiarism
15. Winding Down and Gearing Up

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Summer 2005 Teaching Tips

Tip # Subject
1. Setting up for Success
2. Ongoing Student Success
3. Helping Stressed-Out Students
4. Reflecting on Summer