Teaching Techniques and Tips

Classroom Climate

• Creating a good learning environment      
• Diversity and Complexity in the Classroom chapter of practices and research from Tools for Teaching, the seminal book by Barbara Gross Davis.

Engaging and Motivating Students         

• Increasing Participation and get the type of answers you want.
• Teaching qualitative problem-solving 
• Campus research on teaching in STEM fields.
• Facilitating discussions  16 tips from a 2003 handbook by the director of the former UCSC Center for Teaching and Learning.
• They are staring at me blankly: Encourage participation. Learn if students understand the material.

Tips from UCSC's Academic Senate Committee on Teaching

• Assessment, rubrics, learning models and more.

Using technology

• eCommons, UCSC’s collaborative learning environment Tutorials and info.
• Faculty Instructional Technology Center (FITC)      For help and to borrow classroom technology. 

Enhancing your teaching

• Learning from the best : Tips and thoughts from UCSC Teaching Award winners.
• Seminal research on student success