Study Guides and Strategies

• Using feedback in the classroom
  Modeling non-defensive behavior in the classroom can be critical to demonstrating effective use of feedback for teachers and students.
• Teaching critical thinking
  Critical thinking, as it pertains to teaching and learning, can be considered an open-minded process of discovery and understanding, analysis and application, synthesis and evaluation.
• Bloom's taxonomy
  Benjamin Bloom (1956) created this taxonomy or classification system for categorizing "competencies" in educational settings, as defined by skills demonstrated by learner type or intelligence.
• Teaching with questioning
  What are some procedures and strategies for using questions in the classroom?
• The Socratic Method
  Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling: Teacher: Rick Garlikov; Students: 22 third grade class in a suburban elementary school... A binary arithmetic example!
• Teaching with guided notes in lectures
  Guided Notes are teacher-prepared hand-outs that outline or map lectures, but leave "blank" space for key concepts, facts, definitions, etc. As the lecture progresses, the learner then fills in the spaces with content.

• A curricular idea!
  applying SGS: Sequences of this Website can be developed and applied in one class session or over a period of time.
• Curricular resources and guides
• Learning Exercises & Games
  These interactive Flash exercises, based upon the content of the Study Guides Web site...
• Exploring learning styles
  Research has shown that the more we become aware of our own learning styles, the better we learn...

• Constructing true/false tests
  Includes what happens; how to use them; ideal test items; what to avoid; variations; instructions; developing the test; limitations
• Constructing multiple choice tests
  Includes what happens; how to use them; ideal test items; what to avoid; variations; instructions; developing the test; limitations
• Constructing essay exams
  Includes what happens; how to use them; ideal test items; what to avoid; variations; instructions; developing the test; limitations.

• Cross language resources including digital translators
• Online Learning/eLearning books and resources for teachers
  Bibliography of resources inspired by and adapted from suggestions in the Linked-In discussion "Best book for beginning instructional designers"
• Guidelines on Learning
  that Inform Teaching (16)
  University of New South Wales: As part of a strategy to encourage academics to focus their teaching on student learning, this set of Guidelines has been drafted based on...
• Guidelines on Learning that Inform Teaching at MIT (10)
  Massachusetts Insitute of Technology(.pdf): The guidelines presented in this handbook are organized in five broad categories: 1. engaging students in learning; 2. contextualizing students’ learning experiences; 3. creating an inclusive learning and teaching experience; 4. designing an engaging, contextualized and inclusive curriculum; 5. teaching an engaging, contextualized and inclusive curriculum.
• SGS bibliography on Website writing & design
  
• University of Minnesota Duluth Web design bibliography
• National Center on Universal Design for Learning
• SGS bibliography on study strategies
  
• SGS print bibliography for writing
  
• SGS Math bibliography
  -web sites with on-line help
• SGS bibliography on testing
  

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