Writing a teaching philosophy can be a daunting task, regardless of whether you are a graduate student applying for a job, a young faculty member seeking promotion and tenure, or a grizzled veteran preparing for post-tenure review. It needn’t be.
Despite numerous guidebooks and internet pages devoted to this topic,...
Inspired by watching David Letterman while checking in on an online course, I offer my top ten tips for successfully teaching online. These have been gleaned from the literature and/or as a result of experience. Please note that the writer’s guild is still on strike!
10. Allow more time for...
Working with students to improve their writing skills can be frustrating and time consuming for both student and instructor. In a Forest Pathology course I use weekly, short (< 2 page) writing assignments to develop student learning skills and to reinforce major concepts. For example, students are asked to describe...
To help ensure that every library instructor engaged in teaching has the context they need to develop their skills, and to ensure that they can do so in a supportive, collaborative environment, the OSUL Teaching and Engagement Department (TED) has articulated a set of standards for OSUL library instructors. These...
If you're like most kids, you probably like to eat. And you're probably pretty active. But maybe there are some questions that are puzzling you.
Is it hard to learn to cook? Are there foods you can eat to help make
your muscles stronger? Do you have to spend a...
Today’s education, conservation and research in natural resources for both plants and animals focuses on watersheds. Soil has the unique functions of habitat, decomposition of organic material, routing of water, and others. These functions are tied to the spaces among soil solid particles—the holes (pores or voids). But our teaching...
This study was designed with two major aims. The first was toexamine certain characteristics of both Departmental and Non- Departmentalteachers who were teaching matriculation chemistry in SouthAustralian secondary schools during 1967. The numbers of teacherswho participated were: Departmental 40, and Non - Departmental 23.The second was to ascertain certain learning...