CTE Teaching Manual

Classroom Management

Syllabus

• Best Practices in Syllabus Construction
• Defining Effective Student Learning Outcomes for Your Course Assessment
• UNCW Syllabus and Course Policy
• UNCW Course Roll Policy
• UNCG Syllabus Preparation

UNCW Faculty Policies

• UNCW Faculty Workload Policy
• UNCW Faculty Reassignment Awards Policy
• UNCW IRB Policies and Procedures
• UNCW Faculty Policies
• UNCW Articulating Quality
• UNCW Summer School Teaching

Grading

• UNCW Grading Policy
• The Role of Rubrics in Advancing and Assessing Student Learning, The Journal of Effective Teaching
• Why Am I Failing? I Studied So hard. (video)

Assessment

• Learning Assessment at UNCW
• Defining Effective Student Learning Outcomes for Your Course Assessment

Absences

• UNCW Faculty Absence Policy
• UNCW Student Absence Policy
• UNCW Faculty Sick Leave Policy
• UNCW Faculty Family Ilness Policy

Dealing with disruptive students

• Working With The Troubled and Disruptive Students (video)
• Classroom Discipline - UNCW Faculty Handbook
• UNCW Campus Safety: Faculty and Staff Information
• UNCW Counseling Center: Making Referrals
• Strategies for Dealing with Troublesome Behaviors in the Classroom (External Link)
• Assisting the Distressed Student: A Resource Guide for UNCW Faculty and Staff
• Case Management
• Cyberbullying
• Alcohol/other drug education: CROSSROADS (ext. 2-4136)
• campus Police (ext. 911 or ext. 2-3184)

Disabilities

• Disability Services
• Disabilities Accommodations for Students - UNCW
• Spotting disabilities - Brown University
• Universal Instructional Design - Brown University

Add Drop

• Registrar
• University Calendar

Teaching Techniques

 Writing

• Improving Student Writing: Digital Portfolios
• Toward a Writing Intensive Curriculum
• Toward a Writing Intensive Curriculum (Video)

Reading

• Synergy - UNCW Common Reading Experience
• Synergy, the UNCW Common Reading Experience: KiteRunner (video)

Directed Independent Study

• Directed Independent Study
• Teaching Honors DIS (Video)

Learning Communities

• Cornerstone Learning Communities
• Academic and Artistic Connections and College to Community

Large Classes

• Taming Large Lectures
• Large Classroom Management - Random Thoughts
• Taming Large Lectures (video)

Inquiry Based Learning

• Inquiry Based Learning (video)

Teaching Controversial Issues

• Evolution and Creation: Conflicting or Compatible? (pdf)

Formal Feedback

• UNCW SPOT Guidelines
• UNCW Teaching Evaluation Policy
• UNCW EPA Professionals Performance Evaluation Policy
• UNCW EPA Performance Evaluation Template
• What Do They Know, Anyway? - some mythbusting about SPOTS and their utility in gauging teaching performanace

Informal Feedback

• Midcourse Corrections: Student feedback that works for YOU! (video)
• Clickers - Real-time Student Polling
• Focused Feedback, Maryland State Department of Education

Study Skills and Strategies for Students

• How to help your students remember the salient points

Copyright

• Copyright Issues for Faculty (Video)
• Self-publishing and Open Access Journals (Video)

UNCW Teaching Resources

• The Journal of Effective Teaching
• The University Learning Center
  • Supplemental Instruction - Peer-facilitated review sessions
  • Tutoring - Learning Services
  • Writing Services
• Faculty Handbook
• Career Center

Advising

• University College/Ctr. for Acad. Advising
• Quick and Easy Resources for Faculty Advisors

Annual Reporting

• Preparing an Annual Report (Video)