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First-Year Seminars - Instructor Resources

 

 

General Teaching and Learning

Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education

 

Information on millennial generation learners

http://centeach.uiowa.edu/documents/MillennialLearners-Powerpoint_000.pdf

 

Elizabeth Whitt’s Iowa Undergraduates: Who Are They and Why Does it Matter? http://www.centeach.uiowa.edu/documents/WhittPresentationonRISECenterforTeaching1-08.pdf

 

Bain, K. (2004). What the Best College Teachers Do. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

 

Provitera-McGlynn, A. (2007) Teaching Today's College Students: Widening the Circle of Success. Madison, WI. Atwood Publishing.

 

Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP): The American Freshman: National Norms 2008, Research Brief. Accessible on-line at:

http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/pr-display.php?prQry=28

Fall 2008 First Year Student Profile: Available on-line at: http://www.registrar.uiowa.edu/profiles/default.aspx

 

Opportunities for Involvement at Iowa:

http://www.uiowa.edu/admissions/undergrad/first-year/index.html

 

Fall 2009 Welcome Week Activities:

http://welcome.uiowa.edu/

 

 

Course Design and Classroom Management

Tips to Enhance Student Motivation

http://centeach.uiowa.edu/documents/TipstoEnhanceStudentMotivation.pdf

 

Hints for Optimal Class Discussion

http://centeach.uiowa.edu/documents/HintsforGuidingSuccessfulClassroomDiscussion.pdf

 

Using Technology in the Classroom

http://its.uiowa.edu/instruction/lectures/technology.shtml

 

Great compilation of teaching tips, designed for large classes but great for small ones too.

http://its.uiowa.edu/instruction/lectures/teaching.shtml

 

How to design a grading rubric for papers

http://centeach.uiowa.edu/documents/RubricforGradingPapers.pdf

 

L.D. Fink’s Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/Idea_Paper_42.pdf  

 

Getting Started: What Do You Want Students to Remember?

http://centeach.uiowa.edu/documents/GettingStartedWhatdoyouwantstudentstoremember.pdf

Using Student Input and Expectations to Shape Your Course

http://centeach.uiowa.edu/documents/FOURQUESTIONSASSIGNMENT.pdf

 

How to Create a Grading Rubric

http://centeach.uiowa.edu/documents/HowtoCreateaRubric.pdf

 

Re-engaging Students

http://centeach.uiowa.edu/documents/Re-engagingStudents.pdf

 

McKeachie, W. & Svinicki, M. (2005). McKeachie's Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers. Wadsworth Publishing.

 

Provitera-McGlynn, A. (2001). Successful Beginnings for College Teaching. Madison, WI: Atwood Publishing.

 

Upcraft, M. Lee, Gardner, J.N., Barefoot, B. & Associates. (2005). Challenging & Supporting the First-Year Student. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

 

National Resource Center for the First Year Experience and Students in Transition. Includes database of first-year seminars, syllabi, reading lists, research on college teaching, transitions, and various teaching support resources.

http://sc.edu/fye/

 

 

Tips for Students

Guiding Students in How to Study

http://www.centeach.uiowa.edu/documents/Instructionaldesign-whatworks.pdf

 

Getting Students to Read: Fourteen Tips. By Eric Hobson. The Idea Center.

http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/Idea_Paper_40.pdf

 

Requiring Students to Interact with Texts

http://www.centeach.uiowa.edu/documents/RequiringStudentstointeractwithTexts.pdf

 

John Wiley's Study Skills -- for studying for Term Papers and Case Studies http://www.johnwiley.com.au/highered/birt/student-res/studyskills.html

 

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant (organizing, writing, and revising exploratory and argumentative essays)

http://www.powa.org/

The UVic Writer's Guide (writing different types of essays and research paper) http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/EssaysToc.html

Problems with Essays http://www.mantex.co.uk/ou/a319/a319-13.htm

So You Have to Do a Research Project? http://www.ri.net/schools/East_Greenwich/research.html

 

Dartmouth’s Tips for Students Taking Notes

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~acskills/docs/taking_notes.doc