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Essays on Teaching Excellence

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Packet 1 - Alternatives to Traditional Teaching Methods and Learning Strategies Academic Service-Learning: Myths, Challenges, and Recommendations Active Learning Beyond the Classroom Integrating Learning Strategies into Teaching Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning Learning Outside the Box: Making Connections between Co-Curricular Activities and the Curriculum Mentorship in the classroom: Making the implicit explicit Risky Business: Making active learning a reality Spectators and Gladiators: Reconnecting the Students with the Problem Writing to Learn		Packet 2 - Cooperative/Collaborative Learning, Small Groups Collaborative Learning: Reframing the Classroom Cooperative Learning: Its Here to Stay Foundations of Collaboration Problem-based Learning: Preparing Students to Succeed in the 21st Century Three Keys to Using Learning Groups Effectively
Packet 4 - Defining and Characterizing Teaching Competence is what you do when you make a mistake Developing a Philosophy of Teaching Statement Forward to Aristotle: Teaching as the highest form of understanding Good Teaching: A Matter of Living the Mystery The Nature of Expertise: Implication for Teachers and Teaching Teaching: Beliefs and Behaviors The Teaching Portfolio Teaching With Style: The Integration of Teaching and Learning Styles in the Classroom		Packet 5 - Diversity Issues Class in the Classroom Deconstructing Bias and Reconstructing Equitable Classrooms Diversity Begins at Home: Multiculturalism in State and Regional Studies Impediments to Teaching a Culturally Diverse Undergraduate Population The Multicultural Teaching Portfolio Tales told out of school: Women's reflections on their undergraduate experience Teaching Controversial Issues Teaching In Action: Multicultural Education as the Highest Form of Understanding
Packet 6 - Grading, Testing, and Assessment Classroom Assessment: Guidelines for Success Course Tests: Integral Features of Instruction I'd like to use essay tests, but... In the Name of the Student... Students' Reactions To Performance-Based Versus Traditional Objective Assessment Teaching Goals, Assessment, Academic Freedom and Higher Learning		Packet 8 - Motivating Students Changing Student Learning Behavior Outside of Class Emotion in the Classroom Exploring Student Expectations From Cognitive Dissonance to Self-Motivated Learning Learning a Lot vs. Looking Good: A Source of Anxiety for Students Living up to Expectations Mistakes and Other Classroom Techniques Relating Student Experience to Courses and the Curriculum The Uses of Uncertainty in the College Classroom
Packet 9 - The Student/Teacher Relationship Academic Civility Begins in the Classroom College Teaching as an Educational Relationship Never in a Class by Themselves: An Examination of Behaviors Affecting the Student-Professor Relationship Power in College Teaching Teaching with Hospitality The Why of Teacher/Student Relationships		Packet 10 - Change, Renewal, and the Professoriate Reflections on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Rethinking What It Means to be a Scholar Teachers are Diverse, Too -- Respecting Each Other's Beliefs Ten Qualities of Self-Renewing Faculty Why Professors Don't Change
Packet 12 - Technology and Related Issues Are we going to Cyberspace, or is this just another trip to Abilene? Challenges in Using Technology for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education Helping Students (Better) Evaluate and Validate WWW Resources

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