- Chronicle of Higher Education - Chronicle of Higher Education access is provided free to SIUE faculty through a site license. Quick access to relevant, timely information can be found quickly through this link. Consider subscribing to the Teaching Newsletter and checking out the upcoming and virtual event section.
- On-Demand Videos (TPDL) - Midweek Mentor On-Demand offers our entire campus community unlimited access to 20-minute-long online professional development seminars. You can access the materials on computers, laptops, tablets, or cell phones. Learn from your office, on the train, or even on the beach! On-Demand videos cover a broad range of faculty development topics and are used in the Midweek Mentor sessions.
- Active Learning Library - A free online resource that lets instructors browse over 40 different learning activities and filter them according to their own goals and interests. For example, instructors can search for activities that provide formative feedback, support small group engagement, build metacognitive skills, work well in online classes, or don't take too long to prepare.
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Teaching Resources
Accessing Valuable Articles, Webinars, and Memberships
High-Impact Teaching Practices & Student-Centered Learning
- Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - Resources on how to create an inclusive classroom environment. Including:
- Student Group Projects - The Student Group Project page contains resources for organizing effective student group projects.
- Flipped Classroom - The Flipped Teaching page contains resources pertaining to the Flipped Teaching method.
- Integrating Antiracism, Social Justice, and Equity Themes in a Biochemistry Class - This article discusses the need to integrate discussions of racism, social justice, and equity into undergraduate STEM classes.
- Science is for Everyone: Integrating Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Teaching - This toolkit provides ideas to diversify science education to support recruitment, retention, and advancement of all students and bring topics of equity, diversity, and inclusion to the curriculum.
- Project Biodiversify - Project Biodiversify is a repository of teaching materials and methods aimed at enhancing diversity and inclusivity in biology courses.
- Changing Cultures and Climates - Changing Cultures and Climates provides information that supports and promotes diversity, inclusivity, and equity in the international plant science community. This page contains literature about culture and gender matters, information about programs and initiatives that focus on increasing and sustaining diversity in plant science, and many other resources.
- Pedagogies of Engagement in Science: A comparison of PBL, POGIL, and PLTL - This article compares PBL, POGIL, and PLTL to allow instructors to decide which approach or combination of approaches will suit their particular situation.
- Peer-Led Team Learning in Introductory Biology - This article evaluates hypothesized effects of the Peer-Led Team Learning instructional model on undergraduate peer leaders’ critical thinking skills.
- Peer-Led Team Learning Helps Minority Students Succeed - This article discusses the need to implement Peer-Led Team Learning in undergraduate STEM courses.
- Guide to the Practice of Peer-Led Team Learning - This guide provides resources for the successful implementation of Peer-Led Team Learning.
- Supporting Equity Among Students in Group Work - This article provides strategies for preventing implicit biases affecting student group dynamics and facilitating productive and equitable teamwork.
- Making Classroom Groups Inclusive - This resource provides strategies for forming in-class groups or pairs to ensure inclusivity and equal opportunities.
- Supporting Student–Led Study Groups - This page provides suggestions on how instructors can support their students’ use of study groups in ways that may lead to greater student success.
- Implementing Group Work in the Classroom - Resources on how to implement group work successfully in the classroom.
- How to Create and Manage Groups - Resources on how to implement group work successfully in the classroom.
- High-Impact Practices - This page provides resources for high-impact practices.
Syllabus Resources
- Generative AI (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini, Bing Chat, Claude) - This page contains useful resources and tools related to generative artificial intelligence (AI) programs and how faculty can integrate them into their classroom policies.
- Tips and Links for the First Days - Actions to create a supportive, inclusive, and equitable classroom, including a first-day student survey, tips on communicating your AI expectations, and how to remember students and know how to pronounce their names.
- Making a Syllabus - The Making a Syllabus page includes resources for creating a syllabus, a link to IDLT's syllabus template and sample syllabus policies.
- Instructional Design and Learning Technologies (IDLT) - Instructional Design Consultants will assist you in designing your online or traditional course. Contact them with questions or to schedule a consultation.
- Syllabus Template
- Revolutionizing My Syllabus - This resource walks you through the process of decolonizing a syllabus through an anecdotal experience.
- Decolonizing Your Syllabus – A resource that looks at relevant previous research, and recommendations for the implementation of syllabus decolonization, and anti-racist syllabus.
- Anti-Racist Syllabus – A collection of resources including samples, and guides to aid in the creation of Anti-Racist Syllabus.
- Tools for Inclusive & Anti-Racist Course Design – A collection of tools and guides for the development of inclusive and anti-racist courses.
- Chronical of Higher Education: How to Create a Syllabus - This resource provides a step-by-step process of creating an effective syllabus.
- SIUE Toolkit - A page containing resources for creating more accessible courses, a taxonomy for what is meant to be learned, and virtual trainings.
Cultivating a Growth Mindset
- Plagiarism Prevention - This page contains tools and policies related to plagiarism and cheating.
- Resources for Stem Courses - This page provides resources and activity guides to assist in learning more about inclusion in STEM and activities to promote inclusion in a STEM classroom.
- Course Equity Map - The Course Equity Map provides concrete ways to include equity and inclusion considerations in pedagogical and course design.
- Inclusive Groups & Cooperative Learning - This page highlights different ways to use group and team-based learning in the classroom.
- Integrating Wellness into Curricula
Leveling up your Teaching
- 2023 SIUE Students' Discussion on STEM Education- Results from peer-led focus groups about problems student are facing in pursuing their STEM education
- Student Evaluations of Teaching (SET)- SET is one source of information used to make data-driven and validated tenure and promotion decisions (Student Evaluation of Teaching Committee). It is a tool to gather end-of-semester student evaluations of your teaching (SIUE policy 1J7).
- ITS Training/Library Resources - This page contains information about Library services related to teaching.
- Digital Content Captioning for Faculty - A service offered by Online and Education Outreach, IDLT, and ACCESS provides assistance to faculty in captioning videos that they have created and stored in the Yuja software for instructional purposes. Additional information about this service , including a form to request captioning assistance, is available on the captioning request link.
- Teaching Peer Consultants - SIUE Faculty are available to assist you with your teaching questions. They can visit your class to provide a peer observation or Group Instructional Feedback Technique (GIFT) or review and discuss teaching concerns.
- Solve a Teaching Problem - Website at the Carnegie Mellon Teaching Center will walk you through solutions to various teaching problems.
- Check Out Books on Teaching from the CDFI's Collection - You can browse inside the CFDI or search the Lovejoy Library catalog to find a variety of current books to check out.
- Critical Thinking - The Critical Thinking page provides resources and strategies to help students develop critical thinking skills
- Content Coverage as a Barrier to Evidence-Based Teaching Approaches and Ways to Overcome it - This article provides ways to transition from a content-coverage approach to learner-centered strategies to help students retain new information.
- Recasting the Agreements to Re-humanize STEM Education - This article discusses ways to make STEM education more accessible, inclusive, relevant, responsive, and reparative.
- Engaging Students in Active Learning Asynchronously - This page provides various teaching techniques to encourage student engagement in asynchronous learning.
- Best Strategies to Engage Students in Asynchronous Online Courses - This page offers various strategies to engage students in Asynchronous courses.
- Engaging Students With Each Other Online - A guide to engaging students in asynchronous courses and fostering student interaction.
- SIUE Teaching Resources - This page provides a wide variety of teaching resources including high impact teaching practices, syllabus resources, and much more.
Advancing as a Teacher-Scholar
- Elon University’s Center for Engaged Learning - The Center for Engaged Learning provides a wide variety of resources including strategies for engaged learning, practice-based initiatives, seminars, and research.
- International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning - International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning is a peer-reviewed electronic journal for research and information about the scholarship of teaching and learning and its applications in higher education.
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Annotated Literature Database - This page provides helpful summaries of key literature on a variety of topics related to postsecondary teaching and learning.
- The SoTL Guide
- SoTL IRB and Human Subjects Resources - This page provides a variety of SoTl resources including materials, papers, disciplinary support, and resources on research involving human subjects.
- Teaching and Learning Inquiry Journal - Teaching and Learning Inquiry is a peer-reviewed journal for the scholarship of teaching and learning research in higher education across disciplinary, institutional, and geographical contexts.
Stepping into Leadership and Advancing Professionally
- National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity - Activate your membership first, then Click on Library, Choose Teaching from the filter to find recorded webinars and other professional development resources.
Podcasts, Books, and Scholars to Follow
- Biologist and Graph Interpretation
- Story Collider - The Story Collider is a weekly podcast featuring true, personal stories about science. This podcast shows the role science plays in everyday life
- TrEnDh-Ed - TrEnDh-Ed highlights the different backgrounds, experiences, cultures, and communities in science.
- Teaching in Higher Ed - Teaching in Higher Ed offers weekly podcasts, blog posts, and recommendations on effective practices for facilitating learning.
