Resources

Partners in Teaching Excellence

Just a reminder that Centre staff are available for individual consultations for faculty wishing to implement innovations in instruction for teaching and learning excellence. The Centre also offers Learning Communities where faculty share experiences in teaching and learning. We currently offer Peer Mentoring, Teaching Squares, Instructional Skills Workshops as well as other programs listed on our website. We are currently expanding our faculty resources section to offer current information on new trends in Higher Education. Contact the Centre for more information.

Teaching Inventories

Teaching Goals Inventory, Online (automatically scored)
http://fm.iowa.uiowa.edu/fmi/xsl/tgi/data_entry.xsl?-db=tgi_data&-lay=Layout01&-view

Teaching Goals Inventory, Paper and Pencil Version (self-score)http://www.lattc.edu/lattc/staffdev/workshopnotes/drummond/061031/teaching_goals_inventory.pdf

Grasha Teaching Styles Inventory: Version 3.0
http://longleaf.net/teachingstyle.html

Sample Survey, Approaches to Teaching Inventory
http://www.questionpro.com/a/showSurveyLibrary.do?surveyID=60851

Theory and Research-based Principles of Learning
http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/principles/learning.html

New Brochures

To read our new brochures, visit our New Brochures page.

New Access to Journal

Journal on Excellence in College Teaching http://celt.muohio.edu/ject/index.php

Top Profs Give Advice

Hear award winning profs in the areas of Languages, Chemistry, Biology, Math, Business, Psychology, Computer Science and More!!
http://www.youtube.com/user/StudentawardsInc?feature=mhum#p/u/3/iDHYGMzzd5Y

Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching

http://apps.medialab.uwindsor.ca/ctl/CELT/celtvol1.html

Professional Development Print Resources available at UBCO Library

Categories:
Effective Teaching Practices
Complete Professor
Instructional Strategies
e-Learning
Assessment of Students in Higher Ed
Learning Styles of Students
Teaching Portfolios


Teaching Techniques for Students with Disabilities

Teaching Techniques for Students with Disabilities (pdf)

The Teaching Professor and Online Classroom

The Centre for Teaching and Learning has recently obtained UBC Okanagan site licenses for two teaching and learning related electronic newsletters: The Teaching Professor and Online Classroom.

All members of the UBC Okanagan teaching community may register to receive free subscription(s) to either or both of these newsletters. Registration is only required once. With your subscription(s), you will receive a monthly email providing you with the current issue's table of contents, and links to both individual articles and the entire issues. To register for your free subscription(s) to The Teaching Professor and/or Online Classroom, please contact Heather Hurren to receive the voucher code and PIN number for your subscription. heather.hurren@ubc.ca.

Teaching Tips

Each week, Faculty Development Associates publishes a detailed tip for building your teaching or course management skills. Each is chosen to correlate with the natural dynamics of the teaching term, maximizing the potential for your immediately applying it.

Previous Weeks' Tips:


Academic Resource Centre (for students)

http://ubco.tv/frontend2.php?cm=movies/52ARC_001.flv

Writing Centre

http://ubco.tv/frontend2.php?cm=movies/Arc_Promo.flv
http://ubco.tv/frontend2.php?cm=movies/Arc_Promo2.flv
http://ubco.tv/frontend2.php?cm=movies/Arc_Promo3.flv

Math Centre

http://ubco.tv/frontend2.php?cm=movies/Arc_Promo4.flv
http://ubco.tv/frontend2.php?cm=movies/Arc_Promo5.flv
http://ubco.tv/frontend2.php?cm=movies/Arc_Promo6.flv

Tomorrow's Professor

The Tomorrow's Professor Mailing List, posted twice per week, has more than 20,000 subscribers at over 650 academic institutions in 106 countries around the world. To date there have been over 750 postings. The goal of the Mailing List, "desk-top faculty development, one hundred times per year," is achieved through the posting of provocative and practical material on current issues in academia as well as insights on how to prepare for, find, and succeed at careers in teaching, research, and service in higher education.

A weblog associated with the Mailing List, recently developed by MIT in partnership with Stanford, has enhanced the overall Tomorrow's Professor System. This site provides readers the opportunity to share their thoughts on particular postings, to read the thoughts of others, and to have ongoing exchanges with colleagues from around the world. Many readers have found this exchange to be of substantial value.

Visit Website >>

Sample of Posting Titles

Academia

  • New Faculty Reward Structures
  • Faculty Learning and Institutional Change

Preparing for Academic Careers

  • The Academic Job Talk.
  • General Principles For Responding to Academic Job Offers

Managing Your Academic Career

  • Tenure Tips
  • Twelve Suggestions for Optimizing Academic Career Success

Teaching and Learning

  • Improving Student Learning While Saving Faculty Time
  • How Students Learn, How Teachers Teach, and What Goes Wrong With the Process

Research

  • * Elements Found in Most Successful Proposals
  • * How Graduate Students and Faculty Miss-communicate


Suggested Readings

AVAILABLE THROUGH UBC Okanagan LIBRARY OR DOCDEL:

LB 2331.7 K65 2002 Being A Teacher In Higher Education
        Peter T. Knight

T49.E46 2004 Effective Learning & Teaching In Engineering
        C. Baillie & I. Moore

QA76.27.E33 2004 Effective Learning And Teaching In Computing
        A. Irons & S. Alexander

QA12.E44 2002 Effective Learning And Teaching In Mathematics And Its Applications 
        P. Kahn & J. Kyle

 

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