Lectures- Intro, General, Planning
Grade Calculator
Created by Ben Eggleston, University of Kansas, this provides a means to do weighted grading
Iowa State University, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
This site has a number of modules on teaching practices, preparing to teach, assessment and more. An added bonus for those moving from TA’ing to applying for teaching positions, it also has modules on preparing a teaching philosophy statement and preparing a teaching portfolio.
http://www.celt.iastate.edu/teaching
How to Create a Syllabus: Advice Guide from the Chronicle of Higher Education
A nice quick and comprehensive guide to writing a new syllabus or revising an old one.
https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/advice-syllabus
The Focused Classroom- Anne Guarner, Inside Higher Education
Focuses on, well, focusing your students in an age of distraction.
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/gradhacker/focused-classroom-0
Six ways to discourage learning- Douglas Duncan, American Astronomical Society Education Office
and Amy Singel Southon, Chicago Botanic Gardens
A nice checklist of very common classroom behaviors that are ineffective (but that many of us are guilty of!)
https://aas.org/education/Six_Ways_to_Discourage_Learning
A Classroom Icebreaker with a Lesson That Lasts - V.A. Freed, Faculty Focus
A nice first day exercise to impact students on how they learn
https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-and-learning/a-classroom-icebreaker-with-a-lesson-that-lasts/
Teaching Tips- University of Honolulu Community College
A massive number of teaching tips, from first day/month activities, to structuring lesson plans.
http://www.honolulu.hawaii.edu/facdev/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm#lessonplan
Making Office Hours Matter- Megan Condis, InsideHigherEd
You have to be there, so here’s how to get the student’s in the door to visit!
https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2016/11/01/how-convince-students-attend-office-hours-essay
ABL Connect- Harvard, Yale, Cornell, MassBay, MIT
An online activity based learning site has both techniques and activities that foster student interaction.
https://ablconnect.harvard.edu
Active Learning for the College – Cal State Los Angeles, Donald R. Paulson and Jennifer L. Faust
Although this comes from the Chemistry and Biochemistry departments, there are a myriad of great activities that can be used in humanities courses.
http://www.calstatela.edu/dept/chem/chem2/Active/main.htm
Interactive Classroom Activities/Techniques- University of Central Florida
A pdf with over a hundred activities for interactive learning and review
https://www.fctl.ucf.edu/teachingandlearningresources/coursedesign/assessment/content/101_tips.pdf
Interactive Classroom Activities- Brown University
A list of activities that can be done with large or small groups, and links to examples that can be modified for different disciplines.
https://www.brown.edu/about/administration/sheridan-center/teaching-learning/effective-classroom-practices/interactive-classroom-activities
Student Engagement Activities-University of Oregon, Jason Schreiner
https://tep.uoregon.edu/pdf/assessment/Student-Engagement-Techniques.pdf
University of Minnesota Center for Educational Innovation
A nice multi-part on how to construct lectures for the classroom.
https://cei.umn.edu/teaching-resources
9 Tools for the Accidental Writing Teacher- Daveena Tauber, ChronicleVitae
Great tips for teaching writing within your discipline
https://chroniclevitae.com/news/1460-9-tools-for-the-accidental-writing-teacher?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=c02935b437544e33aec1dd60ec6b609b&elq=588d478cc3a445728a8e42c288a95c72&elqaid=9702&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=3464
UC Berkeley Center for Teaching and Learning
Many links within this excellent site to teaching writing at the university level. Covers exercises, paraphrasing, citations, thesis arguments and more
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/resources/reading-and-composition/teaching-argumentative-writing
Writing across the curriculum- University of Waterloo
Many great links to teaching writing, including the ever-important topic of how to manage the paper load of the instructor with added writing assignments.
https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-teaching-excellence/wac
Getting Them to Read Our Comments- David Gooblar, ChronicleVitae
Part of the Pedagogy Unbound (https://chroniclevitae.com/news/tags/Pedagogy%20Unbound?cid=vem) series, this contains good suggestions for using the process of writing, rather than just the final grade, to improve students writing.
https://chroniclevitae.com/news/1129-getting-them-to-read-our-comments
They Haven’t Done the Reading Again
Prompting the students to read!
https://chroniclevitae.com/news/719-they-haven-t-done-the-reading-again
Subject specific Teaching Resources
Material Culture Syllabi- H-Material Culture
A goldmine of resources if you are teaching Material Culture, or are using Material Culture in courses (such as museum visits, in Art History)
https://networks.h-net.org/node/7842/pages/9620/material-culture-syllabi
Twenty Questions to Ask an Object – Debby Andrews
https://networks.h-net.org/node/7842/discussions/159638/twenty-questions-ask-object
Twenty Questions to Ask an Object – Debby Andrews
https://networks.h-net.org/node/7842/discussions/159638/twenty-questions-ask-object
Art History Teaching Resources
The leading Art History teaching site. Contains peer contributions, lesson plans for a variety of subjects, discussions and links to a wide range of courses.
http://arthistoryteachingresources.org/
The Met
Object-oriented plans relating to their collection, but a great launch pad for ideas
http://www.metmuseum.org/learn/educators/lesson-plans
SmartHistory.org
This site has some good videos to help explain aspects of formal analysis, such as perspective and chiaroscuro. Worth poking around on for ideas and quick videos.
https://smarthistory.org/classical-orders-of-architecture-explained/
Art history Resources on the Web
Professor Chris Witcombe of the Art department at Sweet Briar College provides a truly extensive list of art history sites, covering all periods and geographic regions of art history. Even in the specialty areas that remain uncovered in standard texts, such as African Art, this site provides hundreds of links in specific areas of African Art.
http://arthistoryresources.net/ARTHLinks.html
Art- H-AfrArt
H-Net network on the expressive cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora..
Discussion and Resources from Dr. Christopher D. Roy
https://networks.h-net.org/node/12834/projecttype/teaching-resources
African Art Specific Archive links
https://networks.h-net.org/node/12834/projecttype/media-archives-and-galleries
Asia for Educators- Columbia University
Includes history and art history resources for teaching.
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/
H-Latin America
Although many of the art links are broken, the ones still working are quite good!
https://networks.h-net.org/node/23910/pages/27764/h-latam-syllabi
American Historical Association
Extensive resources for teaching history, including lesson plans, approaches and links to other educators
https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning
H World History
Though under development, the H-World History site does have links to some organizations and materials for teaching world history.
https://networks.h-net.org/node/20292/pages/33819/links-programs-organizations-journals-and-resources
H-Asia
A variety of teaching resources from the Asian scholars site
https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/projecttype/teaching-resources
Asia for Educators- Columbia University
Includes history and art history resources for teaching.
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/
H-Latin America
Tons of syllabi on general to country/topic specific subject matter
https://networks.h-net.org/node/23910/pages/27764/h-latam-syllabi