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Teaching Large Classes:
- Resources
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Large Classes: Resources
The Large
Classes Teaching Guide was first sponsored by the Office
of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. As part of the
campus initiative in Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI),
the CQI project focused on a persistent problem area for
academic programs in many disciplines--the challenge of
providing high quality educational experiences to
undergraduates in large lecture classes. This guide was
one of the
recommendations of the CQI team in order to provide a
resource to help teachers improve their work in the
challenging environment of the large lecture course.
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Teaching
Large Classes Links
Below you
will see a number of links to other websites that offer
resources, advice and techniques for teaching large
classes.
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Teaching
Large Classes
Over 40 assorted links to articles from a variety of
perspectives. This site is very useful for the
practitioner who is looking for both theory and
practices for teaching a large class. Of particular
interest are the teaching tips and a bibliography of
resources for teaching large classes.
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Pennsylvania State University - Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence:
Included on this web site
is a listing of publications, a directory of online
resources, and
Teaching Largee Classes Well: Solutions from your peers".
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Teaching
Large Classes With the Web - Christy Desmet
After constructing and using this web site for teaching
a large lecture class of English 231, "Beowulf to
Milton," Desmet surveyed the students' attitudes toward the
technology used. This web page records the process of
constructing the web site and the results of that survey
after students had used it for a quarter. There are
different ways to use the Web in the classroom. Some web
sites are controlled by the teacher and aim to provide
the students with information or other kinds of extra
materials. Some are constructed by the students, and
reflect the process of learning. Others are
self-contained courses, often taught as
distance-learning courses. Included in this web site are
examples of different kinds of class web sites, the
computer questionnaire used, the results of the computer
questionnaire, and her conclusions.
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A Brief
Summary of the Best Practices in College Teaching
This web page compiled by Tom Drummond of North Seattle
Community College received one of Education Index's Top
Site Awards. This collection of practices that
constitute excellence in college teaching includes an
article on Teaching Large Classes as well as articles on
Group Discussion Triggers, Thoughtful Questions,
Reflective Responses to Learner Contributions, Rewarding
Learner Participation, Active Learning Strategies,
Cooperative Group Assignments, Goals to Grades
Connections, Modeling, Double Loop Feedback, Climate
Setting, and Fostering Learner Self-Responsibility.
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University of California - Office of Instructional
Consultation: Teaching and Learning
This web site includes resources for Teaching Large
Classes, including info pages; articles; bibliographies;
links to relevant journals; a link to a list of
videos for faculty and TA's; What Constitutes Good
Teaching; Bibliographies on Teaching and Learning;
Learning Communities; Teaching Through Research at UCSB;
Distance Learning; The World Lecture Hall; Instructional
Uses of the Internet Teaching Tips; The National
Teaching & Learning Forum; and Instructional media.
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