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Sheridan Center Publications

The Teaching Exchange

The Teaching Exchange is a semi-annual journal, published by the Sheridan Center. It is designed to be a medium for exchange of ideas about teaching at Brown, both through its print and electronic editions. Articles are contributed by faculty and graduate students, as well as Sheridan Center staff. The emphasis is on substantive articles, rather than news announcements, concerning teaching issues relevant to the Brown Curriculum. Recent issues have focused on Instructional Technology, Arts and Pedagogy, Individual Teaching Consultations, and Teaching Portfolios. The Center also publishes the results of its annual research project. These have included surveys of student perceptions of the impact of graduate teaching assistants on their educational experience and surveys of instructors' perceptions of the impact of cheating on teaching, among other topics.

Teaching Tips

These teaching tips were contributed by Center staff, faculty and graduate students at Brown. They are a collection of strategies and techniques designed to improve teaching and learning.

Teaching Handbooks

The Sheridan Center has six handbooks currently available for use by Brown faculty and graduate students:

Constructing a Syllabus
Instructional Assessment in Higher Education
Teaching and Persuasive Communication
Teaching at Brown
Teaching to Variation in Learning
The Teaching Portfolio

These are intended to serve as basic information resources on various pedagogical issues at Brown and are available to the entire Brown Teaching Community.

Online Pedagogy Workshops

The Sheridan Center has two pedagogy workshops that are currently available online:

Cognitive Diversity: Teaching to Variation in Learning Workshop
Syllabus Construction Workshop

Videotape: Effective Teaching for Dyslexic/All College Students

This Sheridan Center videotape argues that inclusive pedagogy which facilitates learning by students with dyslexia or other variant learning styles benefits all students. Featuring examples of teaching by faculty at Brown University and Dartmouth College, the videotape demonstrates how professors without special training in learning styles can, in fact, develop teaching practices which reach a broad range of learning styles. The videotape was created by founder Harriet W. Sheridan to initiate discussions among faculty and graduate teaching assistants about how to develop more accessible and inclusive teaching practices.

Please contact the Center to order a copy along with the companion Discussion Guide.