Teaching Essays

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Alternatives to Traditional Teaching Methods and Learning Strategies
• Jeffery Howard, "Academic Service-Learning: Myths, Challenges, and Recommendations"
• Terry Doyle, "Integrating 'Learning How to Learn' Strategies into Your Content Teaching"
• Myra Wilhite and Liz Banset, "Learning Outside the Box: Making Connections Between Co-Curricular Activities and the Curriculum"
• Deborah Dezure, "Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning"
• Judith and Calvin Kalman, "Writing to Learn"
• Edward Neal, "Acitve Learning Beyond the Classroom"
• Charles Bonwell, "Risky Business: Making Active Learning a Reality"
• Deanna Martin, Robert Blanc, and David Arendale, "Mentorship in the Classroom: Making the Implicit Explict"
• John Boehrer, "Spectators and Gladiators: Reconnecting the Students with the Problem"

Cooperative/Collaborative Learning, Small Groups
• Barbara Mills, "Cooperative Learning: It's Here to Stay"
• Barbara Duch, Deborah Allen and Hal White, "Problem-based Learning: Preparing Students to Succeed in the 21st Century"
• Larry Michaelson, "Three Keys to Using Learning Groups Effectively"
  
• Gail Goodyear Muir and Sally Blake, "Foundations of Collaboration"
• Jean MacGregor, "Collaborative Learning: Reframing the Classroom"

Defining and Characterizing Teaching
• Ronald A. Smith and Richard G. Tiberius, "The nature of Expertise: Implications for Teachers and Teaching"
• Nancy Van Note Chism, "Developing a Philosphy of Teaching Statement"
• Ronald A. Smith, "Competence is What You Do When You Make a Mistake"
  
• Anthony Grasha, "Teaching with Style: The Intergration of Teaching and Learning Styles in the Classroom"
  
• Peter Seldin, "The Teaching Portfolio"
  
• Parker J. Palmer, "Good Teaching: A Matter of Living the Mystery"
• Russell Edgerton, "Forward to Aristotle: Teaching as the Highest Form of Understanding"
  
• Robert Menges, "Teaching: Beliefs and Behaviors"
  

Motivating Students
• Edmund Hansen, "From Cognitive Dissonance to Self-Motivated Learning"
• Virginia S. Lee, "The Uses of Uncertainity in the College Classroom"
• Steven M. Richardson, "Living Up to Expectations"
• Eddie Vela, "The Emotional Classroom"
• Janet Gail Donald and James Wilkinson, "Exploring Student Expectations"
• Virginia S. Lee, "Relating Student Experience to Courses and the Curriculum"
• Harriet C. Edwards, "Mistakes and Other Classroom Techniques"
• Anastasia Hagen, "Learning a Lot vs. Looking Good: A Source of Anxiety for Students"
• Graham Gibbs, "Changing Student Learning Behavior Outside of Class"
  

Change, Renewal, and the Professoriate
• Richard Tiberius, "Teachers are Diverse, too: Understanding Beliefs about Teaching and Learning"
• Pat Hutchings, "Reflections on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning"
• Gene Rice, "Rethinking What It Means to Be a Scholar"
• Fred Hudson, "Ten Qualities of Self-Renewing Faculty"
• Loren Eckroth, "Why Professors Don't Change"