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The Teaching Professor Newsletter

The Teaching Professor is a terrific little newsletter with practical teaching tips and ideas. Our electronic subscription is available to all Roanoke faculty from the current "Teaching Professor is Here" Web Announcement. You must register the first time you use it. You only need to register once. After that all you need to do is go to the website, log in, and click on the newsletter anytime you want to see it. You will also be able to see past issues.

General Pedagogy

Explore your teaching style and goals by taking the Teaching Perspectives Inventory: http://www.TeachingPerspectives.com/

Theories about how students learn: http://www.funderstanding.com

VARK Inventory for determining students (and your own) learning styles: fun, easy and useful: http://www.vark-learn.com

Active Learning ideas : http://www.active-learning-site.com/

Faculty Learning Communities: http://www.units.muohio.edu/flc/

Teaching Students with Special Needs

Here are some helpful resources identified by Mrs. Barbara Awbrey, our Coordinator of Disability Support Services. They all have significant resources for college-level teaching.

Learning Disabilities Online: http://www.funderstanding.com

For informative fact sheets, the Children and Adults with ADHD site: http://www.chadd.org/

Virginia Tech is at the forefront of a lot of these issues. Here is their website: http://www.ssd.vt.edu

Association on Higher Education and Disability

A cutting-edge site about designing instruction to be inclusive of students with a wide variety of learning styles, preferences, and special needs: http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/

Academic Integrity

Center for Academic Integrity: www.academicintegrity.org

Plagiarism Resource site at UVA: http://plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/

Guide to Plagiarism at Indiana University, Bloomington: http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/wts/plagiarism.html

Take a quiz to see how well you understand plagiarism: http://education.indiana.edu/~frick/plagiarism/

General Faculty Development Links

Professional and Organizational Development
Network in Higher Education: http://www.podnetwork.org/

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/

International Alliance of Teacher Scholars / Lilly Conferences: http://www.iats.com/

Chronicle of Higher Education

Carleton College Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching: http://www.acad.carleton.edu/campus/LTC/

St. Olaf College Center for Innovation in the Liberal Arts: http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/cila/