Berkeley's Teaching Tips Index

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Descriptive Files for the Teaching Tips

• Acknowledgments
• Berkeley's suggestions for how to use these files
• Where these tips come from and how they were collected
• Student survey of the teacher
• Teacher self-description survey

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  INDEX

  A

  • Accessibility to students
  • Acknowledging difficult material, explaining
  • Analytic skills, improving students
  • Assignments - with options
  • Assignments, "real world"
  • Assignments
  • Assignments, repeating
  • Attention, holding students
  • Audiotapes
  • Auditing

  B

  • Bibliography
  • Blackboard, using the
  • Books, see textbooks
  • Boredom, students
  • Brainstorming
  • "Breaking the ice"
  • Breaks

  C

  • Calling on students
  • Case studies
  • Clarity
  • "Closed lists"
  • Colleagues, treating students like
  • Colleagues, using information from
  • Commenting on students' work
  • Community resources
  • Concepts, having students apply
  • Conceptual framework
  • Conceptual understanding
  • Controversial topics
  • Correcting students' work
  • Critical thinking
  • Criticism, inviting
  • Cultural gaps, filling in

  D

  • Debates
  • Definitions
  • Demonstrating concepts
  • Different viewpoints
  • Discussion sections
  • Discussion
  • Discussions, analytical
  • Discussions, informal
  • Discussions, interceding in
  • Discussions, large group
  • Discussions, small group
  • Dramatic pauses

  E

  • Enthusiasm, maintaining
  • Essay tests, see tests
  • Evaluating students' work
  • Evaluating teaching
  • Evaluations, mid-term
  • Evaluations, oral
  • Examples, presenting
  • Exams, see tests
  • Exercises, structured
  • Eye-contact with students

  F G H

  • Faculty-student relations
  • Feedback, see evaluation of teaching
  • Field experience
  • Fundamental concepts
  • Grading tests
  • Guest speakers
  • Homework, see assignments

  I J

  • Improving student performance
  • Independent research
  • Interdisciplinary approaches
  • Interesting style
  • Introductions, students'
  • Introductory courses

  • Jokes, telling
  • Journal, keeping a

  L

  • Large lectures
  • Large lectures, presentations to
  • Learning from mistakes
  • Lecture notes
  • Lecture notes, borrowing from students
  • Lecture notes, color-coding
  • Lecturing
  • Liaison Committee
  • Listening skills, improving students'
  • Literacy standards
  • Logbooks

  M

  • Main ideas, highlighting
  • Make-up quizzes
  • Microphones, using
  • "Mini-lectures"
  • "Minute papers"
  • Monitoring presentations
  • Monotone delivery, correcting
  • Motivating students

  N O

  • "Name Game"
  • Names, learning students'
  • Note-taking
  • Office hours
  • Oral presentations (by students)
  • Orientation for new students

  P

  • Pacing
  • Paraphrasing
  • Participation, encouraging
  • Peer review
  • Peer teaching
  • Personal help to students
  • Physical environment
  • Preparation (by faculty)
  • Preparation (by students)
  • Prerequisite skills, evaluating
  • Prerequisite skills, providing
  • Presentations (by faculty)
  • Presentations (by faculty)--anecdotal format
  • Presentations (by faculty)--practicing
  • Presentations (by faculty)--story-telling format
  • Problem solving
  • Professional activities
  • Professional development
  • Project topics, selecting

  Q R

  • Question box
  • Questionnaires
  • Questions (for students), test
  • Questions (from students)
  • Questions (to students)
  • Questions, extra-credit
  • Quizzes
  • Quizzes, oral
  • Reading assignments
  • Reading lists, see reading assignments and textbooks
  • Reading skills, improving students'
  • Recent developments in the field
  • References
  • Relaxed atmosphere
  • Repetition of concepts
  • Rephrasing
  • Research, open-ended
  • Review questions (for tests)
  • Review sessions
  • Reviewing assignments
  • Role playing

  S

  • Self-instructional materials
  • Small groups, forming
  • Small groups, working in
  • Social gatherings
  • Socratic method
  • Speaking skills, improving students'
  • Standards, setting
  • Student backgrounds
  • Student confusion
  • Student difficulties
  • Student diversity
  • Student Learning Center
  • Student panels
  • Student presentations
  • Study groups, forming
  • Summarizing
  • Syllabus

  T

  • Teaching a new course
  • Teaching assistants
  • "Telegram evaluation"
  • Telephone "hotline"
  • Term papers, see assignments
  • Test anxiety
  • Test giving, strategies for
  • Tests
  • Tests, diagnostic
  • Tests, grading
  • Tests, reviewing results from
  • Tests, scheduling
  • Tests, students' preparation for
  • Textbook, using the
  • Textbooks, selecting
  • "Thought problems"
  • TIES office, using the
  • Transcripts, students'
  • Transitions in lectures
  • Tutorial services

  U V W

  • Updating lectures
  • Videotaping
  • Vocal delivery, improving your
  • Working in your office
  • Writing assignments
  • Writing skills, improving students'