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Teaching
Tips Index
A faculty resource for helpful classroom hints
and ideas!
We gratefully acknowledge the Faculty Development Committee of Honolulu Community College for sharing the following information from their awesome Intranet Web site. You may find many more helpful ideas from the HCC Teaching Tips Index.
| The purposes and content of a syllabus. | ||
| What they are and how to write them. | ||
| Lesson planning for effective teaching. | ||
| Advantages and disadvantages of four types. | ||
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Strengths and limitations of 14 teaching methods.
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| Choosing lecture, demonstration, or discussion. | ||
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Practical tips on improving your teaching.
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The why and how of organization for teaching.
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Examples of getting acquainted techniques. |
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| Examples from Valencia Community College in Florida. | ||
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Ethnocentrism, stereotyping, blindness, etc.
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| Fundamental assumptions to make about learning. | ||
| Understanding cognitive and psychomotor domains. | ||
| General educational objectives and processes. | ||
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More than instructor excitement or prodding.
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Treat learners like adults.
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Understanding adults returning to school.
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63 ideas for dealing with retention/attrition.
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Behaviors and possible responses.
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| Information about student services and programs. | ||
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A possible recourse against midcourse letdown.
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Teaching for Success is an online periodical that provides a diverse range of effective, innovative, and practical ideas on teaching improvement for the busy part-time and full-time faculty member and teaching assistant or future teacher. Download current and past issues (prior to August 2002) using Acrobat Reader.
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August (our last electronic issue)
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2003-04 School Year
August | September | October | November | Annual Index | January | February | March | April
2002-03 School Year
August | September | October | November | Annual Index | January | February | March | April
Innovation Abstracts copies are now archived for the past three years online. Find these at www.nisod.org and click on "Members only." The username is "member" and the password is "dosin."
