Professional Development and Pedagogy

Instructional Materials

• Teach with The Society Pages

• The enduring power of print for learning in a digital world (The Conversation)
• Student Device Preferences for Online Course Access and Multimedia Learning (Oregon State University)
• Knowing Where We Are Paves the Way for Change (A Principal’s Reflections)

Learning

• Another nail in the coffin for learning styles (The British Psychological Society)
• The Myth of 'Learning Styles' (The Atlantic)
• Teachers must ditch 'neuromyth' of learning styles, say scientists (The Guardian)
• Students’ Definitions of the College Classroom (Stanford University)
• Active Learning in Online Classes (University of Florida)
• For Some, Active Learning Can Be a Nightmare | Tomorrow's Professor Postings (Stanford University)
  
• To Learn, Students Need to Do Something (Cult of Pedagogy)
  

Instruction

• Science Says, If You Want People To Respond, Tell A Good Story (Forbes)
• 5 Questions to Ask Your Students To Start the School Year (George Couros)
• Boys perform better at some science tests than girls, but it is not because they are smarter (International Business Times)
• Setting goals around tasks, not outcomes, is the best way to improve performance, a study shows (Quartz)
• Universities are failing their students through poor feedback practices (The Conversation)
• How Should I Study for the Exam? (Magna Publications)
• 28 Critical Thinking Question Stems For Any Content Area (Ed Tech)
• 7 secrets to a lasting relationship from the hugely popular 'Marriage 101' class (Today)
• #15toptips for Student-Centred Teaching 9: Reflect on the value of reflection and build this capacity with your students – they will need it (Thesedablog)
• Teaching With Protest Music (New York Times)
• 7 Tips for Teaching Students How to Recognize Bias in an Era of Fake News (We Are Teachers)
• Students Learn a Powerful Lesson About Privilege
• Response: Ways to Use Learning 'Taxonomies' in the Classroom (Education Week)
• How Can Profs Support Students Who Come In With Poor Writing Skills? (Ed Surge)

Faculty Work Environments

• How Hard Do Professors Actually Work? (The Atlantic)
• How to Land a Community College Job (Inside Higher Ed)
• It Matters a Lot Who Teaches Introductory Courses. Here's Why. (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

Resources

• 107 Free E-Learning Tools for Teachers in the Digital Classroom (Wikibuy)

• Free PDF Editors
• ZORA 100 – List of Books by African American Women

• Three Ways to Create Online Comics
• K. Schnapp Professional Development Resources
• Best Websites for Teaching & Learning (American Association of School Librarians)
• Ten books every teacher should read (The Guardian)
• 7 Unique eLearning Sites to Learn Something Different (I Am Wire)
• Storyboard to Plan Your Video (Practical Ed Tech)
• “Spiral” Looks Like A Great Site Where Teachers Can Set-Up Free Virtual Classrooms (Larry Ferlazzo)
• The Teacher Project (The Atlantic)
• Kialo – Discussions
• http://mapinseconds.com/
• 15 Tools for Teaching with Videos
• 7 sites pushing the boundaries of the web
• Teacher Reboot Camp
• Pressbooks

Professional Development

• Your Colleagues Don’t Read Anything You Write. Here Are 8 Ways to Change That. (The New York Times)

• Why Don’t Educators in Higher Ed Take Education Classes? (Inside Higher Ed)
• Anthropologist studies why professors don't adopt innovative teaching methods (Inside Higher Ed)
• 1.6 Million Students and Counting: How Barbara Oakley Cracked the Science of Learning (Heleo)
• We Need to Educate Kids for the Future, Not the Past (Inc)
• In the age of robots, our schools are teaching children to be redundant (The Guardian)
• A Pedagogical Shift Needed for Digital Success (Eric Sheninger)
• For Online Class Discussions, Instructors Move From Text to Video (Ed Surge)
• Nature of Mindsets (Medium)

Class Projects

• Sex and the City of Philadelphia – Idea for Class Project
• Student Expressions – Ideas for Class Project

Student Success Support

• 3 Reasons Students Procrastinate—and How to Help Them Stop (Edutopia)
• Do You Truly Grasp Why That Student Keeps Missing Class? (Chronicle Vitae)

• Seven magic mental health questions every teacher should know (Tes)
• Grit needs to become a part of the school curriculum (The Dallas Morning News)