Teaching Resources

 

Resources at UMBC:

UMBC Faculty Handbook

UMBC Classroom Management

The Shriver Center

 

Award-Winning Teachers on Teaching Lectures

TLT Brownbag Workshop Series Archives

 

Academic resources for students at UMBC:

Learning Resources Center offers tutoring in many courses.

Counseling Center offers a "Skills for Success" workshop series covering topics such as time management, memory skills, and test anxiety.  The Center also offers individual counseling.

Student Support Services offers services for students with disabilities and for students who are low-income, first generation college students.

English Language Center provides assistance to students for whom English is not their first language. Tutoring and classes are offered.

 

Resources on the Web:

Turnitin.com UMBC currently subscribes to this plagiarism detection service; to learn how to register with turnitin, please contact the Faculty Development Center at x1829.

National Teaching and Learning Forum View current and past issues of this teaching newsletter by selecting the "site license subsriber" entry (access from UMBC accounts).

Teaching Centers The University of Kansas has compiled a fairly comprehensive list of teaching and learning centers at U.S. colleges and universities.

 

Teaching Tips/Ideas Websites:

For course design and other useful teaching information, see Dee Fink's website at the University of Oklahoma Instructional Development Program especially the Significant Learning and Team Learning sections

To create Rubrics, see Rubistar4Teachers

University of Oregon Teaching Effectiveness Program offers a rich set of resource links.

University of California, Berkeley: Tools for Teaching

University of California, Irvine: Teaching Resources Guide

Illinois State Center for the Advancement of Teaching

Indiana University: teaching handbook

The IDEA Center (Kansas State University) Check out the IDEA Papers for articles on teaching topics

University of Minnesota

The Ohio State University Office of Faculty and TA Development

Pennsylvania State University

Stanford University Center for Teaching and Learning's teaching newsletter, Speaking of Teaching

University of Washington Center for Instructional Development and Research

 

 

Other Sites of Interest

Tomorrow's Professor Listserv

Preparing Future Faculty

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse

 

 


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