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- E. Phillips Knox Teaching Award
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- Minor Teaching Project for Individual or Small Groups of Faculty
- Minor Teaching Project for Individual or Small Groups of Graduate Students or Undergraduate Students
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- Faculty Exchange Relocation Grants
- Award Portfolio Examples
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Teaching Tips
How inclusive is your syllabus? An inclusive syllabus minimizes unnecessary physical demands and maximizes accessibility, flexibility, and explicitness, e.g., it is available in multiple media, and explains words, expectations and directions.
For more information, see the video on the CELTUA site about Crafting Inclusive Syllabi and our webpages on Inclusive Classrooms.
In a recent year, 18% of Miami's main campus students were first generation college students, whereas 50% of regional campus students were. More demographic information can be found on the CELTUA website in Assessment Brief #28. Please also see our video on Getting Started in Teaching at Miami, Oxford: Your Students, the Campus Culture, and the Resources.
A table of specifications can help you plan your exam to provide balanced coverage of topics as well as appropriate levels of cognitive challenge. Click here to see more. See our Journal on Excellence in College Teaching Volume 10, Number 3 (1999) for an article on study groups and exams.
Two suggestions for reducing plagiarism: Require students to hand in process steps, such as an annotated bibliography and rough draft; and require that some sources be recently published...Click here to see more. See CELTUA's video on Academic Integrity.
Ever wonder what your students did or didn't get out of your lecture? What's behind those blank faces? Classroom Assessment Techniques can help with that. CELTUA also has a video on "Using Clickers in the Classroom."
Research suggests that student evaluations of teaching are a useful element of a comprehensive faculty evaluation system. click here for more The CELTUA library has more on faculty evaluation.
Planning for next semester? Think about aligning assignments with course goals. See our Journal on Excellence in College Teaching Volume 20, Number 2 (2009) for an article on "backward planning".
Thinking about the first day of class? See the Honolulu Community College Teaching Tips Index. Also see our video on "using clickers in the classroom."
Wondering how to help international students succeed? See our resources on International students.
Want to use something other than student evaluations? Learn about Peer Review on the Teaching Strategies page under Consulting & Resources.
What is assessment? See the video on Assessment on visit our Assessment Basics page.
What is engaged learning? Answers from a student panel are on a podcast under Leadership & Pedagogy.
Save work in grading by using rubrics. See Assessment Basics, Rubrics for more information.
An e-portfolio system allows students to upload assignments and other documents to a web server. The assignments can then be assessed by faculty members, or the student may provide access to others, e.g., prospective employers. See Assessment Brief #47.
Technology can enhance active and inquiry-based teaching and learning. See the video on Second Life under Consulting & Resources.
The course portfolio as a tool for continuous improvement in learning and teaching to showcase how you help students reach learning goals. See William Cerbin's article in in MU's Journal on Excellence in College Teaching. Also see the podcast!
Summer gives time for reflection on our teaching. See videos of Knox Teaching Award winners Cathy Bishop-Clark and Olga Brezhneva discussing teaching portfolios as a reflective process.
Get ideas for teaching innovations: See past recipients of CELTUA awards and their project summaries on our Grants and Awards page.
Sample text for your syllabus about disability accommodations is on Additional Resources page, Office of Disability Resources.
Planning to use clickers in your classroom? See CELTUA's clicker resources.
Curious about names on your roster? See the video of Chinese Names Workshop. Handout pdf too!
What should the goals of a college education be? AAC&U's answer: Liberal Education Outcomes (PDF) CELTUA can help you plan learning goals for your students.
Wondering what to do besides lecture? See CELTUA videos on the Top 25 project.
Need help with your assessment plan? See new CELTUA pages on Outcomes in the Majors and New Course approval process.
Sakai
2010 Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award Winners
Watch for Sakai FLING on CELTUA website
When advising students, remember that recent state initiatives and changes in higher education nationally led the Provost to designate a task force to make recommendations about how these affect the quality of Miami education read Provost's Pathways report. See CELTUA's webpage on Undergrad Students for ideas about how students can become more engaged in their education beyond checking off graduation requirements.
Looking for discipline specific teaching ideas? See CELTUAs website Discipline-Specific Resources page and list of disciplinary pedagogy journals on our library page.
Service Learning has been identified as a High Impact Educational Practice. A key element in these programs is the opportunity students have to both apply what they are learning in real-world settings and reflect in a classroom setting on their service experiences. Learn more from CELTUAs Teaching Strategies page.
Making good use of student evaluations, Information available at Consulting and Teaching page.
Students not doing assigned reading? See tips on Getting Students to Read Idea Paper PDF
Teaching at its Best. L. Nilson (2010) in CELTUA library.
Questions about the new course approval process? Course assessment resources are on CELTUA's web page New Course Approval Process
Free Essays on Teaching Excellence Essays on Teaching Excellence (from Professional Organizational Developers Network) are now available online, free of charge. The essays present innovative and research-based viewpoints on college and university instruction.
How can you engage large science classes in inquiry-based learning? See the video of A Multi-Faceted Approach to Inquiry-Based Learning presented at the Lilly Conference on College Teaching (2009) by Miami's Michael Brudzinski..
Multiple choice questions that elicit critical thinking. See suggestions at Indiana.edu
Using group projects? See suggestions at Idea Paper More on cooperative learning visit CELTUA resources.
Handbook of Diversity Resources at Miami and Beyond . Prepared by a graduate student, Wende' Nichols (SAHE) for graduate students and others new to Miami.
Looking for discipline-specific teaching ideas? The MERLOT ELIXR Initiative is a digital case story repository that hosts more than 70 discipline-specific multimedia stories on a variety of instructional topics.
Concerned about a student? Student Concern Management System is the place for faculty and staff to submit a note of concern about a student or report an incident to the Office of the Dean of Students [this includes matters such as a perceived threat or disturbing content in a written assignment (or email)] or to report student behavior that concerns you. Please note that this system, although checked regularly, is NOT an emergency reporting system. If the situation you are dealing with is an emergency or poses an imminent threat/danger, please call 911 or the Miami University Police Department (513) 529-2222
Experiencing end-of-year stress? CELTUA provides links to stress reduction for faculty: Teaching Strategies, Processes and Resource List, Stress Coping
Reflecting on the past semester can help you plan for next time. See the video of Olga Brezhneva, Knox Teaching Award winner, discussing the role of reflection in teaching.
A provocative statement that colleges should use research expertise to focus on how students advance or fail. Inside Higher Ed
Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative provides instructional materials on a variety of topics. MU's Anna Dollar Engineering course is included!
Academic integrity? How does Miami compare to a national sample? What can we do better? Power Point as Presented by Don McCabe.
teachpsych.org
Engaging students of diverse backgrounds and understanding cultural privilege (aimed at psychology but broadly applicable)
Handbook of Diversity Resources at Miami and Beyond. Prepared by a graduate student, Wende' Nichols (SAHE) for graduate students and others new to Miami.
Need ideas on getting students to prepare for class? You might be interested in Just in Time Teaching. More information at JiTT.
2011 Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award Winners Opened Practices
The National Survey on Student Engagement (administered by Institutional Research) shows MU students improving relative to comparable institutions. NSSE
MU colleagues discuss "Why do Assessment?" Success Stories
Planning for next semester? Think about aligning assignments with course goals. See Course Design on CELTUA's site on Teaching Strategies & Resources.
What kind of feedback do students need if they are to improve skills, say their problem solving skills or their critical thinking abilities? Faculty Focus, The Teaching Professor Blog.
Planning to teach a large class next semester? Miami faculty report their experiences with clickers and small groups with papers posted at CELTUA's: Teaching Learning Expo.
How to plan a motivating course: A faculty member's account of taking a student role.
First-day of class discussion on learning centered teaching: "Do my students know why I ask them to learn this way?"