STEM Teaching Resources for Faculty
Below is a list of teaching resources targeting STEM undergraduate education. From evidence-based teaching strategies to course materials, these resources are sure to refresh your teaching and engage students of all backgrounds.
Useful Teaching Strategies and Methods Resources
- How to Make an Inclusive Syllabus
- Evidence-Based Teaching Guides - includes several guides to improve specific methods of teaching, such as incorporating modeling or peer instruction
- CIPD Teaching Resources - explore CIPD's resources available to help prepare for your courses
- Large Class and Lecture Strategies - tips for encouraging attentiveness and participation in large classes
- Teaching with Archival, Botanical, and Museum Collections - activities and assignments to teach students how to work with primary sources of information
- Teaching Strategies for Labs - resources and checklists to help you prepare and run and lab course
- Problem Solving Strategies - strategies for facilitating problem solving during class
- Evidence-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching MOOCs - two open online courses on evidence-based STEM teaching practices and how to effectively conduct teaching as a research project
- Yale's Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning STEM Resources - links to journals in each STEM discipline that relate to the teaching and learning of that discipline
- Teaching Strategies to Promote Student Engagement - 21 teaching strategies to promote and cultivate classroom equity
Useful Resources for Course Material
- Teaching with Archival, Botanical, and Museum Collections - activities and assignments to teach students how to work with primary sources of information
- Project Biodiversify - a repository of teaching materials and methods aimed at enhancing human diversity and inclusivity in biology courses
- Scientist Spotlights - access to assignments and activities that link course content to the stories of counter-stereotypical scientists
Recommended Books Available Through Milner Library
- Teaching and Learning STEM: A Practical Guide by Richard Felder and Rebecca Brent (also available at CIPD)
- Hitting Pause: 65 Lecture Breaks to Refresh and Reinforce Learning by Gail Taylor Rice (also available online)
- Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, and Motivation by Saundra McGuire and Stephanie McGuire
- Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom by Kelly Hogan and Viji Sathy
- Flipping 2.0: Practical Strategies for Flipping Your Class by Jason Bretzmann (only available from CIPD)
- Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning by James Lang (also available from CIPD)