1. Planning your class and thinking about teaching

• Ten Ways to Make Your Teaching More Effective
  
• Nine Complaints from Students About Lectures
  
• Teaching students with disabilities
  
• Good Ideas from Presidential Chair Fellows
  
• Teaching Goals Inventory
  
• Bloom’s Taxonomy
  
• Learning Styles
  
• Instructor Preparation Time
  
• Ten Ways to Minimize Academic Dishonesty in Your Classroom

2. Your syllabus

• Content Tyranny
  
• Components of a Course Syllabus [pdf]
  
  • Policy on Ownership of Course Materials
  • Using Copyrighted Materials in Your Classroom
    
• Questions to Ask About a Syllabus
  
• Policies to consider and statements to include in the syllabus
  
  • Guidelines Concerning Scheduling Conflicts [pdf]
  • Checklist for Scheduling Conflicts with Academic Requirements
    
  • Statement on Accommodation of Religious Creed
    
  • Statement on plagiarism
    
  • Students with disabilities
• Assignment Design Checklist

3. Lecturing

• Some Quotations about Public Speaking
  
• Eight Public Speaking Tips [pdf]
  
• Tips on Lecturing from Tools for Teaching
  
• The Change Up in Lectures
  
• Minimizing the Distance between Student and Teacher
  
• Confidence in the Classroom [pdf]

4. Important points in the semester

• What to do on the first day of class
  
  • Guide for pronouncing Asian names
    
  • Sample First Day Questionnaires [also avail. in pdf]
    
• Preparing for Spring Break
  
• After the Midterm
  
• The Doldrums
  
• The Last Day of Class
  
• End of Semester Feedback
  
  • Recommendatons for Administering Evaluations
    
• Final Exams

5. Getting students involved          

• Finding out what students are thinking and learning
  
  • Suggestions for Early Feedback [pdf]
    
  • Early Feedback Working Group Report
    
  • The One Minute Paper
    
  • Midsemester Evaluations
    
• Groups
  
  • Using groups in classes & encouraging study groups [also avail. in pdf]
    
  • Resources for Using Groups in the Classroom
    
  • How to form study groups (a handout for students)
    
  • Forming groups in class
    
• Getting students involved
  
  • A baker’s dozen
    
  • Asking and answering questions
    
  • Using an experiment to engage students
    
  • Using debates in class
    
  • Writing Workshops in class
    
  • The Change Up in Lectures
    
  • Why Problem-Based Learning?

6. Problems and Issues

• Disappearing Students
  
• Academic Honesty
  
  • Campus resources, policies, and suggestions
    
  • Ten Ways to Minimize Academic Dishonesty in Your Classroom
    
  • Faculty and GSI Tips on Cheating in the Classroom
    
  • Berkeley Faculty Perspectives on Plagiarism
    
• Teaching in Times of Crisis
  
• Teaching “Sensitive” Topics
  
• Problem Students and Disruptive Behavior
  
• Student Announcements in Classes
• Laptops in class
  
• Email/Listserv etiquette
• Letters of Recommendation

7. Assessing and Evaluating Your Teaching

• Midsemester Evaluations
  
• Peer Observation
  
• Assessing and Evaluating Your Teaching
  
• Advancement and Promotion (from Academic Personnel Manual)
  
• Teaching Evaluation Policy (1987)

8. Life, or something like it

• Balancing personal and professional life
• The Faculty Guide to Campus Life

9. Encouraging undergraduate research

10. Encouraging civic engagement

11. Diversity

12. Incorporating technology into your teaching

13. Encouraging student writing

14. Undergraduate Student Learning Initiative