Improving General Teaching Skills

General Teaching

• Top 21.5 Teaching Tips by Jay Rasmussen and Danny Swensen (narrated PowerPoint)
• TEDxEast - Nancy Duarte Uncovers Common Structures of Greatest Communicators, 11.11.10

Building Classroom Community

• Community Building by Katherine Nevins, from Engaged Teaching and Learning
• What Did I See You Say? The Power of the Non-Verbals in the Classroom Experience by Dan Rotach, from Talk about Teaching
• Facilitating Classroom Discussion by Nikki Daniels, from Engaged Teaching and Learning
• Caring Matters Most by Robin Hasslen, from Faculty Excellence Awards
• Building Community in an Online Environment by Jay Rasmussen, Joyce LeMay, Matt Putz, and Ripley Smith

Teaching the Whole Person in Your Discipline

• Readings from the Pietist Faculty Development Workshop, Summer 2013 (pdf)

Using Discipline-based Best Practices

• Facilitating Lab Experiences by Teresa DeGolier, from Engaged Teaching and Learning

Developing Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

• Experiential Education by Karen McKinney, from Engaged Teaching and Learning
• Inquiry Based Learning by Patti Paulson, from Engaged Teaching and Learning
• Making Thinking Visible by Danny Swenson and Jay Rasmussen (Narrated PowerPoint)
  • Making Thinking Visible paper (docx)
  • Selected Harvard Thinking Routines (docx)
  • Visible Thinking website

Assisting Students in Understanding Discipline Area Text and Using Academic Language

• Strategies for Increasing Student Engagement Part 4: Engaged Learning Strategies to Assist Students in Comprehension of Content Area Text by Jay Rasmussen, from Talk about Teaching
• Faculty Development Workshop, August 24, 2016: Just Do It: Reading Version
  • Just Do It: The Reading Edition handout (doc)

Developing, Implementing and Assessing Student Writing

• Bethel University Writing Center website
• Writing Across the Curriculum by Marion Larson, from Engaged Teaching and Learning
• Buried in Papers: Best Practices for Giving Effective and Efficient Feedback on Student Papers by April Schmidt, from Talk about Teaching
• Ignoring Comma Splices: Is there a place for bad grammar in good learning? with April Schmidt, from Teaching and Learning Roundtable, Writing #1, 11.25.13

Facilitating Learning Beyond the Classroom

• Learning While Serving... A Different Way to Think of 'Service Learning' by Michael Dreher, from Faculty Excellence Awards
• Study Abroad by Karen Drake and David Muhovich from Engaged Teaching and Learning
  • Jim Koch's Handout on Signs of Mental Distress during Study Abroad (doc)
  • Jim Koch's Handout on Assessing Mental Status during Study Abroad (pdf)
• Culturally Responsive Teaching by Ruben Rivera from Engaged Teaching and Learning
• Connections Between Culturally Responsive Instruction, Experiential Education and Study Abroad by Ruben Rivera, Karen McKinney, and David Muhovich from Talk about Teaching
• Advising Partnerships: Connecting to the Office of Career Services by Dave Broza from Talk about Teaching
• MVP Programming: A Bystander Empowerment Model to Address Gender Violence by Andy Johnson from Talk about Teaching

Course Design

• Syllabi Guidelines (doc)
• Best Practices in Online/Hybrid Course Design, from Teaching and Learning Roundtable, 7.30.13
• Best Practices in Facilitating Online/Hybrid Instruction, from Teaching and Learning Roundtable, 10.28.13
• Grouping for Success by Sara Wyse
  • Strengthening Our Use of Groups handout (doc)
  • Group Contract Form (doc)
• Community Engagement and Intercultural Learning: What’s the Connection? by Carol Hargate, Teaching and Learning Roundtable, 9.24.14

Helping Students Understand the Value of the Liberal Arts

• Becoming Whole and Holy Persons