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New Teaching Resources at the Sheridan Center
The Sheridan Center has recently expanded its library holdings and online collection of Teaching Tips. For details, see below.
New Acquisitions @ The Teaching Resource Library
Come visit the Sheridan Center’s Resource Library. Housed in the Center’s home in Lippitt House at 96 Waterman Street, the library is open during regular working hours. Use the library, while enjoying a cup of coffee or tea, or click here to browse the library’s catalogue online. The Center has recently expanded its holdings, and some of our newest titles are listed below:
- Teaching What You Don’t Know by Theresa Huston
- How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgement by Professor Michele Lamont
- Diffusion of Innovations by Everett M. Rogers
- Journal Keeping: How to Use Reflective Writing for Learning, Teaching, Professional Insight and Positive Change by Dannelle D. Stevens
- As the Spirit Moves Us: New Directions for Teaching and Learning by Katherine Hendrix
- The Ethics of Teaching: A Casebook by Patricia Keith-Spiegel
- Teaching the Large College Class: A Guidebook for Instructors with Multitudes by Frank Heppner
Online Teaching Tips: New Additions
The Teaching Tips section of the Sheridan Center’s website includes examples of strategies and techniques developed by Brown faculty and graduate students to improve both their teaching and their students' learning. Recent additions to this page are highlighted below. Click here to view the Center’s entire collection of Teaching Tips. The Center welcomes your contributions – please send them to Sheridan_Center@brown.edu.
This Teaching Tip, contributed by Sheridan Center Associate Director Kathy Takayama, contains tips for successful learning experiences in large classes for professors. The document has two sections: (1) Planning, and (2) Teaching.
This Teaching Tip, compiled by Sheridan Center Associate Director Kathy Takayama, contains best practice use for clickers in large classrooms for teaching and learning. The document has three best practices sections: (1) Consider the teaching and learning objective for your clicker question, (2) Plan all aspects of using clickers before the start of your course, and (3) Communicate clearly with students.