University and National Web Resources for Teaching

UT Austin Policy and Student Services Resources
•College of Natural Sciences coursework and routine policies
http://www.utexas.edu/cons/faculty/classpolicies/index.html
•Services for Students with Disabilities http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/ssd/
•Academic Integrity http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/sjs/academicintegrity.html
•The Know-It-All Guide to UT http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/knowitall.html

UT Austin Center for Teaching Effectiveness: http://www.utexas.edu/academic/cte
(includes online journal: National Teaching Learning Forum
UT Austin TA/AI Services: http://www.utexas.edu/academic/cte/taservices/index.html

Teaching Tips for TA’s: http://www.unl.edu/teaching/Teachtips.html
http://id-www.ucsb.edu/ic/ta/tips/ta_tips.html
http://www.tap.msu.edu/ http://ctl.stanford.edu/TA/index.html

Web pages of other Teaching Centers:
http://www.upenn.edu/pennteach/ http://www.crlt.umich.edu/teachings.html
http://turmac13.chem.columbia.edu/LearnTeach/ta.html http://www.unc.edu/depts/ctl/
http://www.utc.arizona.edu/tact/tactmain.html “Thinking about College Teaching”

Professional Societies
•Coalition for Education in Life Sciences (professional societies improving undergraduate biology education) http://www.wisc.edu/cbe/cels/edulinks.html
Find the organization in your discipline and check their education activities.
•National Research Council http://www.nas.edu/nrc
•Association of College & University Biology Educators http://acube.org/
•Journal of College Biology Teaching (online) http://papa.indstate.edu/amcbt/bioscene.html
•National Science Teachers Association http://www.nsta.org
•National Association of Biology Teachers http://www.nabt.org/

Resources about Active Learning, Problem-Based Learning, Cooperative Learning, etc.:
•http://active-learning-site.com/ go to: VARK
•http://www.csudh.edu/SOE/cl_network/ Network for Coop. Learning in Higher Education
•http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/tsal.html List of Active Learning Sites
•http://www.calstatela.edu/dept/chem/chem2/Active/index.htm Active learning techniques
•http://www.udel.edu/pbl/ Problem-Based Learning
•http://www.the-aps.org/education/MedPhysObj/template.htm go to- Bloom’s Taxonomy
•http://trc.ucdavis.edu/trc/active/definiti.html Active Learning
•http://www.engin.umich.edu/teaching/resources/teaching/active_coop.html

Publications
W. J. McKeachie. Teaching Tips. D. C. Heath and company, 10th edition in 1999
Gordon E. Uno. Handbook on Teaching Undergraduate Science Courses:
A Survival Training Manual. Harcourt College Publishers, paperback 1999.
Online version: http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/faculty/uno-book.shtml