Faculty Teaching Excellence Program

Memo to Faculty Series

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"Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge: Linkages to Ways of
Thinking and Practising within the Disciplines" - by Jan Meyer and Ray
Land from the ETL project.

"Design Experiments: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in Creating Complex Interventions in Classroom Settings." - by Ann L. Brown

"Faculty explore tech connections with students" - by Kim Glasscock. Silver & Gold.

"Making Explicit the Development Toward the Scholarship of Teaching" - by Cynthia B. Weston and Lynn McAlpine. New Directions for Teaching and Learning. No. 86 Summer 2001. (Copyright 2001 Jossey-Bass. Reprinted with permission of John Wiley & Sons Inc.)(Posted: 6/23/2008 Remove: 6/20/2011)

“Concepts of Cognitive Conceptions of Learning” – by Thomas J. Shuell. Review of Educational Research. Winter 1986. Vol. 56, No. 4.

"The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct and Use Them" - by Joseph D. Novak & Alberto J. Canas. Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition.

"A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education" - Robert B. Barr and John Tagg

"Monitoring Student Cues: Tracking Student Behaviour in Order to Inprove Instruction in Higher Education" - L. MCALPINE, C. WESTON, C. BEAUCHAMP, C. WISEMAN,
& J. BEAUCHAMP.

(The Canadian Journal of Higher Education, Vol 29, Num 2-3. 1 June 1999. Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education)

"Design Experiments: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in Creating Complex Interventions in Classroom Settings" - by Ann L. Brown.

"Theory and Researched-based Principles of Learning" - Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, Carnegie Mellon.

"Contemplative Practice and the Education of the Whole Person" - by Debrah J. Haynes.

"Use of Question and Comment Papers in College Teaching" - by Ozlem Ilk. (Assessment Update. Nov.-Dec. 2007. This material is used by permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Posted: 3/18/08 Remove: 3/18/11)

Chapter 1: "Time Management" by Kenneth Foote , from Aspiring Academics: A Resource Book forGraduate Students and Early Career Faculty 1st Edition by Association of American Geographers. (Association of American Geographers, Aspiring Academics: A Resource Book fo Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty, 1st Edition, (c)N/A. Electronically reproduced by permission of Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.) (Posted: 2/28/08 Remove: 2/28/09)

Chapter 10: "Teaching as Research," from 'The Having of Wonderful Ideas' and other Essays on Teaching and Learning, Third Edition. - by Eleanor Duckworth (Reprinted by permission of the Publisher. From Eleanor Ducworth, "The Having of Wonderful Ideas" and other Essays on Teaching and Learning, Third Edition, New York: Teachers College Press (c) 2006 by Teachers College, Columbia University. All rights reseved.) (Posted: 2/28/08 Remove: 2/28/09)

"Student Culture vs Group Work in Computer Science" Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. - by William Waite, Michele Jackson, Amer Diwan, and Paul Leonardi (Copyright 2004, Association for Computing Machinery. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the authors and the Association for Computing Machinery.)

"The Conversational Classroom" - by William Waite, Michele Jackson, and Amer Diwan

"Designing networked learning environments to support inter-cultural communication and collaboration in science learning" - by Marcelo Milrad, Marianne Björn, and Michele Jackson

"Oersted Medal Lecture 2001: 'Physics Education Research - The Key to Student
Learning" by Lillian McDermott (Copyright 2001, American Association of Physics Teachers. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Association of Physics Teachers.)

"Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights" - by Robert P. Moses and Charles E. Cobb Jr.

"David A. Kolb on Experiential Learning" - by Mark K. Smith

"A New Twist on Training Teachers" - by Jeffrey Mervis

"Professional Development: Who is Responsible for Preparing Science Teachers?" - by Valerie Otero, Noah Finkelstein, Richard McCray, and Steven Pollock

"Colorado Also Seeks Impact on Campus" - by Jeffrey Mervis

"New Learning Environments for the 21st Century" - by John Seely Brown

"Articles, resources, and webpages on "Outcomes and Assessment" - From the Teagle Foundation

"Teagle Working Groups on 'Big Questions'" - Teagle Foundation

"Cognition and Brain Development in Students of Traditional College-Going Age - Annotated Bibliography" - prepared by Jill Jeffrey

"Components of Positive Student-Faculty Relationships" - by Arthur W. Chickering and Linda Reisser

"Planetfinder: An Online Interactive Module for Learning How Astronomers Detect Extrasolar Planets" - by Richard McCray

"Learning Styles" - by Don Clark

"Why Not Try a Scientific Approach to Science Education?" by Carl Wieman

"Exploring the Edge" - by John Seely Brown