Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching

Preparation for Effective Teaching

 

Self-Assessment
     *Mid-Course Adjustments: Effective Ways to Get and Use Student Feedback 
        *Teaching Goals Inventory Online
Motivation
     CTL Generated Materials
     *Cultivating Student Motivation
       *Quotes: for your syllabi, for your exams, to start a class discussion 
       *A Bit of Whimsey: Mystery Novels and Academia
        Other Materials
      *Tips for Learning Students' Names
       *Icebreakers
Curriculum
      CTL Generated Materials
       *Syllabus Ideas: helping students make it to the top

General
    *The Technology Source (suggestions for using technology in teaching)
     *CTL Templates: Power Point presentations and/or transparencies
     *WKU Benchmark Universities Faculty Development Units
    *Useful Websites
      *A Collection of Teaching "Goodies"
      *College Teaching Encyclopedia
      *Search the C.T.E. Faculty Cyber-Handbook on Teaching at Tufts University
          a wealth of information on evaluation, syllabus preparation, motivation and more
       *Alphabetical List of Resources by Discipline (Clemson)
       *A list of Web resources for teacher speech improvement/practice
       *Discovery Channel's source of free clip art (a wonderful site in general for teachers)
          Look here also for a puzzle creater 
Professional Role Issues:  Legal, Safety
       *WKU Field Trip Form Information
        *Requirements for Student's Doing Field Work in KY Public Schools
       *Degree Program Checklist to Help with Advising
       *Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act : What faculty should know about
          handling student records
      *Special Notes about Handling Student Grades from the WKU Registrar
      *Information about Disabilities of various sorts (University of Minnesota's Disability
           Services) 
      *WKU Policy on records' management  (Effective immediately, faculty may destroy grade book information one 
        year after the grade is distributed. )
Technology and Teaching
     *Ideas for Improving Classroom Computer Demonstrations
       *Suggestions for Helping the Visually Impaired Student Cope with the Windows Environment
       *See how WKU faculty use the Web-Faculty Webpages
       *Technology Notes for Teachers
       *TNT - Teachers' Notes on Technology Database 
          Accessible to WKU faculty only. Contact the CTL at x6508 for User Name and
          Password or look in the brochure distributed on campus 
       *Electronic Tutorial for Learning Technology
       *Using Web Documents in Teaching
       *Disability Access Issues for Webpage Design
       *Distance Education via ITV at WKU
       *Reach U
                 --KCVU
Other CTL Booklets
       *CTL Resources - Teaching References - Books and Videos and CD's
         *Food for Thought: Active Learning
         *New Ways of Seeing: Understanding Images by Joyce Rasdall
         *Stressed for Success?
          *(SITE) Student Input to Teaching Evaluation - Guidelines for using
          *What I do on the First Day of Class

Journals, Writing Information, etc.
            *Deliberations links you to  journals relevant to the higher education community.
           http://www.lgu.ac.uk/deliberations/journals/index.html
             *The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning online Journal
           http://www.cat.ilstu.edu/sotl/index.shtml
             *Literati Club: support and services for authors and editors
            http://www.literaticlub.co.uk/writing/publishable12.html

*The Department Chair: A Resource for Academic Administrators: a Newletter subscription
http://www.ankerpub.com/news.html