SBCC Committee on Teaching and Learning
Websites on Teaching and Learning
1. SBCC's Student Hub: includes research and task analysis tools
The language is student-centered, and assists students in dealing with challenges such as anxiety, reticence to ask for help, and promotes thinking about self-help.
3. Study Skills for College Students
This connects to another CTL page listing many websites offering study skills resources that students might explore. The examples from Profs. Davidson and Pettijohn show how faculty have integrated advice about how to learn and how to study with their course content.
Questions on Teaching Links to a page developed by CTL members in response to faculty's questions on teaching.
The Design of Teaching The following links have to do with the "how to" of teaching, ranging from offering courses, tools, to pedagogically-related ideas and information to be applied while designing one's course. Click here for websites mainly offering content.
1. SBCC's Faculty Teaching and Learning Seminar
2. Riverside College's Online Course for Teachers
3. SBCC's Syllabus Maker
4. SBCC's Student Success Grant Materials: Select "Student Success" to access '98-'00 files from SBCC faculty.
5. University of Oregon's Teaching Effectiveness Program
6a. University of Minnesota Physics Education's resource on Collaborative Learning and Problem Solving Strategy
6b. UM's Implementing the Cognitive Apprenticeship Model in Large Classes
6c. For more on the Cognitive Apprenticeship Model; scaffolding, from the Question of the Week series.
7. Penn State's Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching lists many excellent articles on teaching methods for Active Learning under categories such as discussion, lecture, large class, collaborative learning, problem solving, case studies. Sections are devoted to assessment, organization, technology, diversity, and the profession.
8. Teaching Goals Inventory, by Cross and Angelo, authors of Classroom Assessment Techniques
9. No. Seattle CC's Tom Drummond presents "A Brief Summary of the Best Practices in College Teaching". This is truly worthwhile to read as many activities for keeping students involved and improving their retention are offered.
10. 16 Ways to Be a Better Teacher This arises from the medical profession but is universal in its applicability.
11. A Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence by Barbara Gross Davis, Lynn Wood, Robert C. Wilson
12a. Strategies for Teaching Thinking and Promoting Intellectual Development in Online Classes, by William Peirce (very thorough compilation of important information that is presented as an online workshop and applies to traditional teaching)
12b. Understanding Students' Difficulties in Reasoning; extensive learning style information
13a. No. Central Regional Educational Laboratory; Extensive site; check pulldown menu.
13b. An example of their work is shown in the following link to locus of control.
14. The time management strategies found here are recommended by Chris Bates and Jack Ullom.
Resources for Teachers with Online Newsletters
15. Education Review is an electronic journal with book reviews pertaining to education (English/Spanish reviews).
16. @ONE provides educational technology resources to California Community College faculty, instructional designers, and technology trainers. It offers a bi-monthly newsletter with excellent resources accessible by an extensive searchable data base.
17. Prep Practices Newsletter, by Dr. Jean Richards of Florida's Polk Community College, intended for developmental English teachers, contains teaching tips relevant to all teachers.
18. PEN, Public Education Network, offers NewsBlast Newsletter, is dedicated to providing each student an excellent education in public education. It aims to advance school reform in low-income communities across the country.
19. International Alliance for Learning's Imagine Newsletter; past issues available online (combines current issues, research studies with instructional implications)
20. Blue Web'n Teaching Site: Lessons, Tutorials, Activities, Projects, Hotlists and Resources; search by content, subject, grade level, or type of resource in refined search. Provides effective models of webquest designs. Offers online newsletter.
21. Kathy Nunley's Layered Curriculum Site; newsletter available. (K-12 oriented, but you can pick out some good information and ideas for college; newsletter cites research studies)
22. Jean Reynolds of Polk Community College, FL, developed these resources for developmental English instructors; click here for the website homepage.
23. Scientific American site, with online newsletter
24. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (advanced)
25a. PBS Resources for use with Lessons/Assignments
25c. This link is an example of one of the many online multimedia programs. The topic is the human genome, "Cracking the Code".
26. Great American Speeches Archives
27. MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching; Discipline Communities for Higher Ed
28. Teaching Help: Websites mainly offering content resources sent in by teachers. Covers all ages so you may find something in your subject by searching.
29. Professional Development and Information Resources for Connecticutt's Educators
30. Metropolitan Community College's (Omaha, Nebraska) Philosophy of Education; primary sources online
31. Nijmegen University's (Netherlands) The History of Education and Childhood; International coverage of the history of education; many theorists' contributions to pedagogy are covered.
32. Education Week's Century Series, listing the important movement in American education in the 20th century to create (in Noah Webster's words), "a system of education that should embrace every part of the community."
33. Institute for Learning Technologies offers access to recent articles on pedagogy, as well as links to Emile, or On Education, by Rousseau, and the "Digital Text Project" by Columbia University.