21. BEATING THE NUMBERS GAME BEATING THE NUMBERS GAME effective teaching IN LARGE CLASSES teaching alarge class effectively is hard work, but it s possible to do it even if you re http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Papers/Largeclasses.htm

1997 ASEE Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI, June 1997. BEATING THE NUMBERS GAME: EFFECTIVE TEACHING IN LARGE CLASSES Richard M. Felder Department of Chemical Engineering North Carolina State University Phil Wankat wrote somewhereand I agreethat anything you can do in a large class you can do better in a small one. When we find ourselves teaching a mob, it's easy to throw up our hands, conclude that there's no chance of getting any responsiveness out of 150 or 300 students in an auditorium, and spend 45 hours showing transparencies to the listless 60% who bother to show up from day to day. We can generate some interest by bringing demonstrations to class, but there are only so many hydrogen balloons we can explode and even they lose their impact after a while. Fortunately, there are ways to make large classes almost as effective as their smaller counterparts. Without turning yourself inside out, you can get students actively involved, help them develop a sense of community, and give frequent homework assignments without killing yourself (or your teaching assistants) with impossible grading loads. Following are some ideas for doing all that. In-Class Exercises Lectures as a rule have little educational value. People learn by doing, not by watching and listening. If you're teaching a small class and you're good, you may be able to prod many of your students into activityget them asking and answering questions, discussing issues, challenging conclusions, laughing at your jokes, whatever. No matter how good you are, though, you probably won't be able to persuade most students to open their mouths in front of 120 classmatesit feels too risky for them. If you hope to move away from the wax museum-like aspect of most large lectures, you'll have to try a different approach.

22. Richard Felder: Resources In Science And Engineering Education cooperative learning, and other topics related to effective college teaching . National effective teaching Institute (NETI) Handouts for students http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/RMF.html

Richard Felder's Home Page RESOURCES IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION Click on your selection What's new? Education-related papers Learning styles Index of Learning Styles ... Education-related web sites College teaching may be the only skilled profession for which no preparation or training is provided or required. You get a Ph.D., join a faculty, they show you your office, and then tell you "By the way, you're teaching 205 next semester. See you later." The result is the consistent use of teaching techniques that have repeatedly been shown to be ineffective at promoting learning. Many professors are surprised to learn that... There are well-defined instructional techniques that make teaching more effective. These techniques can be introduced slowly and methodically, without compromising coverage of the syllabus. They do not require large expenditures of money, time, and effort. Most importantly, the techniques have been validated by careful, documented, repeatable research. Their effectiveness is not simply a matter of opinion. They work! This Web site offers guidance on what those techniques are and tips and resources for using them. If you have a specific aspect of teaching in mind, click on the link to "Education-related papers" on the left and then click on your topic if it is listed. Otherwise, just enjoy browsing.

23. 1998 CRA Effective Teaching Workshop Beating the Numbers Game effective teaching in Large Classes , Richard M. Felder, effective teaching The Carolina Colloquy s Electronic Journal of http://www.cs.umbc.edu/cra/etw98/links.shtml

Computing Research Association Effective Teaching Resources links to resources on the web and elsewhere Compiled by Tim Finin initially for the 1998 CRA Effective Teaching Workshop. Some material adapted from Nigel Ward (University of Tokyo), Graduate Studies, Research and Careers in Computer Science (Iowa) and other resources found on the web. Comments and suggestions welcome. General The New Professor's Handbook, A Guide to Teaching and Research in Engineering and Science , Cliff I. Davidson and Susan A. Ambrose, Anker Publishing Company, Inc. $24.95 paperbound, 224 pages, 1994. ISBN 1-882982-01-0. "...First, the book bridges the gab between teaching theory, on which copious volumes have been written, and practical aspects of college and university teaching in technical courses. Second, the book puts into writing much of the "folklore" about starting a research program as told by experienced professors, information which is normally communicated by mouth." The Assistant Professor's Guide to the Galaxy by George Bekey. 1988 essay was written for new faculty at USC.

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Home Director's Welcome About Us Events Resources ... Home The Center for Effective Teaching and Learning ( CETaL ) promotes excellence in teaching, improvement in student learning, support for the community of teachers at UTEP and in the region, and the scholarship of teaching. We value growth, professionalism and excellence. We strive to achieve them in our own professional lives and promote them in the practices of our faculty, graduate students and instructional staff. We work with UTEP's instructors at all ranks to develop teaching materials that clearly communicate to students how to succeed in their courses and to learn class material most effectively. UTEP faculty and instructors find support here for instructional design, development, evaluation and scholarship of teaching. CETaL regularly evaluates its activities in order to improve its offerings for faculty, graduate students and instructional staff. Click on the documents below for more information on our assessment. Workshops Attendance Graphs Improvement and Impact Survey Aggregated Results of Workshop Evaluations Privacy Statement

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Chapter 13: EFFECTIVE LEARNING AND TEACHING P RINCIPLES OF L ... ECHNOLOGY Chapter 13: EFFECTIVE LEARNING AND TEACHING Although Science for All Americans emphasizes what students should learn, it also recognizes that how science is taught is equally important. In planning instruction, effective teachers draw on a growing body of research knowledge about the nature of learning and on craft knowledge about teaching that has stood the test of time. Typically, they consider the special characteristics of the material to be learned, the background of their students, and the conditions under which the teaching and learning are to take place. P RINCIPLES OF L EARNING Learning Is Not Necessarily an Outcome of Teaching Cognitive research is revealing that even with what is taken to be good instruction, many students, including academically talented ones, understand less than we think they do. With determination, students taking an examination are commonly able to identify what they have been told or what they have read; careful probing, however, often shows that their understanding is limited or distorted, if not altogether wrong. This finding suggests that parsimony is essential in setting out educational goals: Schools should pick the most important concepts and skills to emphasize so that they can concentrate on the quality of understanding rather than on the quantity of information presented.

27. DesignSHOP effective teaching begins with effective planning. Instructional design representsthat systematic planning process for instructional events. http://www.edtech.vt.edu/edtech/id/

Effective teaching begins with effective planning. Instructional design represents that systematic planning process for instructional events. Track H of Virginia Tech's Faculty Development Institute (FDI) focuses on instructional design. Faculty at Tech can use the Web site for this track to access instructional design resources and local campus case studies illustrating the course transformation process. CEUT FDI Receive professional help with instructional strategies and/or development from the following groups: AHNR - IT Digital Imaging IDDL NMC Learn how to adopt popular teaching models in your classroom, such as cooperative and problem-based learning. View sample projects. L earn more about emerging Web tools for teaching by enrolling in this Blackboard course. Learn how to integrate Web-based instructional strategies in your classes, including mentorship projects, student critiques, online research, and data sharing.

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EFFECTIVE TEACHING TECHNIQUES FOR DISTANCE LEARNING What makes an effective and rewarding distance learning experience for both the students and the faculty, an experience that would be described as one of quality? How do the components of distance teaching and learning experiences fit together to become an educational whole? These questions underlie a continually growing body of educational research. For example, the Faculty Initiative of the AT&T Foundation funded Innovations in Distance Education Project (1995) developed a faculty-determined "Emerging Set of Guiding Principles and Practices", a set of principles and practices that provide a philosophical foundation for the design and development of quality distance educational programs. You might find our abstract of the principles and practices a good starting point for this unit. And this paper, " Seven Principles of Good Teaching Practice ", which speaks about both the regular classroom and distance education, is interesting reading. Quality is not well defined in higher education. But, according to one researcher

29. Direct Teaching - Information And Links Can teachers be effective without using direct teaching? Of course. In fact,many, if not most successful instructional episodes occupy a continuum of http://www.adprima.com/direct.htm

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30. Effective Teaching Strategies Note that one of the most effective strategies for teaching about alcohol andother drugs is Socratic instruction (questioning). http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/envrnmnt/drugfree/sa3effec.htm

Effective Teaching Strategies The Western Center for Drug-Free Schools and Communities, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (1991) suggests that role playing, Socratic instruction, and small group work are effective teaching strategies for curriculum infusion. "The Role Playing Process: Make sure the students define a situation that is relevant and important to themfor example, a situation in which they may be offered a drug. Get details such as the setting and number and types of people involved. Set the stage by arranging furniture, indicating where 'doors' might be located. Prepare the audience by giving them specific questions to be prepared to answer at the conclusion of the role play. Examples: (a) Would this work in real life? (b) How would you have handled the situation? There are numerous ways to select participants. Discuss ideas. Begin the role play, stopping it if it is unrealistic, going nowhere, or has accomplished its purpose. Ask questions of the participants and audience. Reenact the role play, if necessary, using a variation of the situation, new participants, feedback provided to improve a skill. . .

31. Constructivist Teaching And Learning Models effective teaching employs a variety of learning strategies. effective teachingrecognizes that meaning is personal and unique, and that students http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/envrnmnt/drugfree/sa3const.htm

Constructivist Teaching and Learning Models Constructivism is an approach to teaching and learning based on the premise that cognition (learning) is the result of "mental construction." In other words, students learn by fitting new information together with what they already know. Constructivists believe that learning is affected by the context in which an idea is taught as well as by students' beliefs and attitudes. Constructivist teaching is based on recent research about the human brain and what is known about how learning occurs. Caine and Caine (1991) suggest that brain-compatible teaching is based on 12 principles: "The brain is a parallel processor" (p. 80). It simultaneously processes many different types of information, including thoughts, emotions, and cultural knowledge. Effective teaching employs a variety of learning strategies. "Learning engages the entire physiology" (p. 80). Teachers can't address just the intellect. "The search for meaning is innate" (p. 81). Effective teaching recognizes that meaning is personal and unique, and that students' understandings are based on their own unique experiences. "The search for meaning occurs through 'patterning' " (p. 81). Effective teaching connects isolated ideas and information with global concepts and themes.

32. Effective Teaching In Distance Education. ERIC Digest. effective teaching AND LEARNING WITH DISTANCE EDUCATION. Distance educationdictates changes in behavior for both the teacher and the learner. http://www.ericdigests.org/2000-3/distance.htm

Site Links Home Search for ERIC Digests Privacy Policy Resources for Library Instruction ... Information Literacy Blog ERIC Identifier: Publication Date: Author: Mielke, Dan Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Teaching and Teacher Education Washington DC. Effective Teaching in Distance Education. ERIC Digest. For over 100 years, distance education has served as an alternative method for delivering academic course work to students unable to attend traditional campus-based classes. The format of distance education varies from correspondence-style courses to technologically based courses using the Internet. Distance education offers students considerable benefits, including increased access to learning, lifelong learning opportunities, and convenience of time and place (St. Pierre, 1998). Distance education may be essential for learners who are truly place-bound because of factors such as employment, child-care demands, disability, or remoteness of the location where they live (Rintala, 1998). This digest presents information on the many forms distance education can take and keys to successful teaching with distance education. WHAT IS DISTANCE EDUCATION?

33. Using Newspapers As Effective Teaching Tools. ERIC Digest The Newspaper as an effective teaching Tool (1981) explains the intent of theprogram and provides a variety of classroom activities using newspapers. http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-929/using.htm

Site Links Home Search for ERIC Digests Privacy Policy Resources for Library Instruction ... Information Literacy Blog ERIC Identifier: Publication Date: Author: Aiex, Nola Kortner Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills Bloomington IN. Using Newspapers as Effective Teaching Tools. ERIC Digest Number 10. Use of the mass media as a teaching instrument in the classroom has increased considerably at all grade levels in the past few years. The Journal of Reading carries a regular series"Use the News"on integrating the reading of newspapers into classroom activities. The newspaper is the most widely used of the media, the direct result of a national campaign by publishers, known as "Newspapers in Education" (NIE). This initiative encourages the use of newspapers as an educational tool both to complement and supplement traditional classroom texts and resource materials (Newton, 1985). "The Newspaper as an Effective Teaching Tool" (1981) explains the intent of the program and provides a variety of classroom activities using newspapers. At the present time, about 600 newspapers in the United States and Canada participate in the NIE program, which involves approximately three million students, 90,000 teachers, and 16,000 schools each year. Before the advent of NIE, newspapers tended to be used only by secondary school social studies teachers in two-week units or for Friday current events sessions. Now, however, newspapers are used throughout the school year in every area of the curriculum (Kossack, 1987).

34. Teaching Methods/Subject Area Resources Links HVCC s Center for effective teaching Home Page effective teaching strategiesand the design of instruction Behavioral Objectives http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/methods/resources.html

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35. Educational Psychology: Effective Teaching, Effective Learning Educational Psychology effective teaching, effective Learning, 3/e by Elliottet al. Website! About the Book, Instructor Resources. About this Site http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/elliott/

Welcome to the Educational Psychology: Effective Teaching, Effective Learning, 3/e by Elliott et al. Website! About the Book Instructor Resources About this Site Overview of the Book Table of Contents Features Supplements Sample 3 rd Edition Chapter Online Learning Center Image Bank Index of Instructor Resources PageOut About the Authors Student Resources Stephen N. Elliott Thomas R. Kratochwill Joan Littlefield Cook John F. Travers Online Learning Center Online Videos Index of Student Resources and McGraw-Hill Higher Education is one of the many fine businesses of The McGraw-Hill Companies For further information about this site contact education@mcgraw-hill.com

36. GED 2002: Making New Connections The Fourth Connection effective teaching Strategies focuses on linking Define what is effective teaching; Identify multiple teaching strategies http://www.floridatechnet.org/inservice/gedteach/fourth/comp1.html

An Inservice Project Using The Florida GED Teachers' Handbook KEY TO ICONS This Symbol Means Click for action Link to the Web Return to the main screen Download a file Back to previous page Forward to next page Back to Orientation The Fourth Connection: Effective Teaching Strategies Need to Login to receive points? Click here! "Make a loop that looks like a rabbit's ear and pinch the bottom. Now loop the other string around the bottom of the ear. Very slowly pull it back through the hole so that you can make a second ear. Pull the ears apart to make a knot. Great job! You've tied your own shoes for the first time!" Did you learn to tie your shoes in this or a similar manner? You probably didn't learn to tie your shoes from a book, since you probably couldn't read. You also didn't learn how to tie your shoes following a graph or a table. Yet, you mastered this skill and immediately applied it to your daily life because it was important to you. Learning by doing is how children learn. But learning by doing is not just a child's thing. Many adults learn the same way. Did you learn how to operate a computer by listening to a lecture? Probably not. You needed to touch it and "make it work" yourself.

37. TEACHING TIPS Lesson Planning Procedures, Lesson planning for effective teaching. 7 Principlesof Good Practice, Essentials of effective teaching and learning. http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teacht

QUICK LINKS TO TOPICS CLICK ON THE TOPIC OF YOUR CHOICE ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES HOW PEOPLE LEARN COMMUNICATION HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ... LANGEVIN LEARNING SERVICES TOPICS FOR BACKGROUND MUSIC , CLICK ON THE ICON WHENEVER IT APPEARS AT A PAGE LINK. THE FIRST DAY 101 Things the First Three Weeks Ways to create the best learning environment. 40 Successes Inviting and disinviting comments, etc. The First Day of Class Nine tasks for getting a class off on the right foot. Icebreakers Examples of getting acquainted techniques. Learn the Students' Names How to learn names and faces quickly. Magically "Learn" Names in Minutes A tongue-in-cheek idea for amazing your students The Most Important Day Thorough discussion, checklist, references The Name Game Make learning names a game. Tom's Essential Survival Tips A reality check for the first day of class. PREPARING A COURSE SYLLABUS Developing a Syllabus The purposes and content of a syllabus. Syllabus Example Classroom A sample syllabus for an occupational course. Syllabus Example Internet Sample syllabus for an occupational course on the Internet. Syllabus Suggested Form An outline of a syllabus that covers all bases.

38. Center For Performance Assessment: Professional Development > Effective Teaching Learn about the nine categories of effective teaching strategies Applyingeffective teaching strategies and balancing your classroom doesn t have to be http://www.makingstandardswork.com/professional_development/effective_teaching_s

Effective Teaching Strategies for the Standards-Based Classroom This full-day seminar is intended for classroom teachers and instructional specialists. In order to maximize student learning opportunities, teachers must plan effective lessons that not only consider the concepts that students must know, but also the specific instructional strategies that will help teachers get the job done. Specific strategies in each of the nine categories of Classroom Instruction That Works will be shared and participants will apply each of the categories to current lessons or future units and plans. Highly interactive and hands-on, teachers appreciate the opportunity to collaborate about what other teachers are doing to achieve success in their classrooms. Learning Objectives During this interactive seminar, participants will:

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Contact Us Search Sitemap Resources ... Specific Focus Effective Teaching What is Effective Teaching? Effective teaching is the basis of successful learning. Effective teaching identifies and builds on prior knowledge, makes real-life connections, develops deep understanding and monitors and reflects on learning. Principles Understanding the Learner Powerful pedagogy K-10 Learning Sequences and Snapshots ... Planning This page has been produced by the School Education Division. Its content has been authorised by the Executive Director (Curriculum Standards and Support). Questions concerning its content may be directed by email to ltag@education.tas.gov.au This page was last modified on Friday, 10 December 2004. The URL for this page is http://www.ltag.education.tas.gov.au/effectteach/default.htm. You are directed to a notice governing the information provided. For other Tasmanian Government information, please visit the Service Tasmania website.

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