Teaching

Topics

• Active learning
• Course evaluation
• Plagiarism
• Flip teaching
• Syllabus

Tips

Some tips from various people. Not necessarily good tips!

• Arrive 15 minutes early. It’s a strong message that shows you care. You can have informal conversation.
• Immediate and continuous feedback.
• http://csunplugged.org/
• fast, flexible, and scalable feedback on teaching with end-of-class micro surveys
• I like how Gary King emphasizes the “engage in the collective experience” and “we learn better collectively”

For graduate students

• Tips for the First-Time Graduate Student Instructor
• Teaching as a Phd Student

People

• John Hattie
• Sanjoy Mahajan

Books

• What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain
• On Course by James M

Theories

• Backward design
• Bloom’s Taxonomy

Tools

• turnitin.com - check plagiarism.
• https://perusall.com: interactive and collective reading assignments.

Articles

• Guidelines for Teaching Assistants
• Inexpensive techniques to improve education: Applying cognitive psychology to enhance educational practice

Talks

• Why students don’t learn what we think we teach
  • Why students don’t learn what we think we teach by Aaron Clauset
• Salman Khan: Let’s use video to reinvent education

Courses on teaching

• Teaching College-Level Science and Engineering by Dr. Sanjoy Mahajan

Notable curricula

• http://www.princeton.edu/integratedscience/
• Reinventing CS50 - Harvard University‘s CS50 course.

Cheating

• UCF Professor Richard Quinn accuses class of cheating
  • http://kottke.org/10/11/how-not-to-cheat-your-way-through-college

References

• http://eric.ed.gov/
• NetSci High: Bringing Network Science Research to High Schools