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Teaching & Learning Resources

Accessibility in Learning and Teaching

Design your instructional strategies and materials to be accessible for all learning styles and learning abilities. This site offers you tools such as Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles, accessible syllabus template, tutorials on creating accessible documents, and more.

Alternatives to Lecturing

  • Collaborative Learning Groups
     Collaborative Learning is a technique where students team together to produce a meaningful project. Students can learn a great deal by working collaboratively with others. This resource includes a guide for classroom implementations, classroom examples and a review of literature.
  • Integrative Learning
    Integrative learning is a movement to help students make connections across curricula. This resource includes a guide for using integrative learning techniques in your teaching, case studies and a review of literature.
  • Role-Playing
    Role-play help students better understand complex issues and concepts, provide an opportunity for students to interact with peers and to develop critical thinking and decision-making skills. This resource includes a guide for classroom implementations, classroom examples and a review of literature.
  • Simulations and Games
    Simulations allow students to manipulate a virtual system in learner-centric interactions and receive immediate, authentic and meaningful feedback. This resource includes case studies, courses, games and a review of literature.

Collaborative Learning

Collaborative learning resources developed by the University of Saskatchewan.

Critical Thinking

Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Skills with a list of resources and verbs to guide the development of instructional objectives by the University of Washington.

Developing Syllabi

Sample syllabi that meet Academic Policy S05-14

Disability 101: Faculty Room

Self-quiz, classroom strategies and a guide for effective communication

Institute for Teaching and Learning, CSU

The Institute for Teaching and Learning (ITL) is an Academic Program of the California State University System.The ITL designs and supports programs for the scholarly and creative study of curricular and pedagogical issues.

Instructional Design Models

University of Colorado at Denver's Martin Ryder's Instructional Design Models page includes a very comprehensive list of resources including instructional design models, Gagne's Conditions for Learning, and instructional strategies.

Learning Styles

Understanding the learning styles among students could be a win-win situation for both students and faculty members. Resources on this page will provide an inventory on learning styles, different models of learning styles and more.

Online Databases

Access to online research through Martin Luther King, Jr. Library

Orientation to College Teaching

Orientation to College Teaching is a series of modules designed by the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching at San Francisco State University.

Responding to Student Writing
This two-semester professional learning project focused on ways in which we as faculty members at San Jose?L State University respond to student writing and how these responses or feedback might become more effective.

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Resources for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Teacher Scholars 2003-04 Research on Improving Student Writing [pdf]

A comprehensive list of resources for improving student writing.

Tenured and Probationary Faculty Reference Guide

SJSU Faculty Affairs developed this reference guide as well as the Lecturer Reference Guide for new faculty members.

 

 


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