Effective Instructional Strategies

Effective Instructional Strategies2018-12-20T05:01:03+00:00

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Tip Sheet on Active Learning by The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University

Ambrose, S. A., Bridges, M. W., DiPietro, M., Lovett, M. C., & Norman, M. K. (2010). How Learning Works: Seven Research-based Principles for Smart Teaching. Chicago, IL: John Wiley & Sons.

Bain, K. 2004. What the best college teachers do. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Brookfield, S. D., & Preskill, S. (2012). Discussion As a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms. Chicago, IL: John Wiley & Sons.

Brookfield, S. D., & Preskill, S. (2016). The Discussion Book: 50 Great Ways to Get People Talking. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Brown, P. C., Roediger, H. L., & McDaniel, M. A. (2014). Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, 1st Edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Handelsman, J., Miller, S., & Pfund, C. 2007. Scientific teaching. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company.

Lang, J. (2010). On Course: A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching, 1st Edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Lang, J. (2016). Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Millis, B. J. 1990. Helping faculty build learning communities through cooperative groups. Available:http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/podimproveacad/202/[2017, August 31].

Svinicki, M. & McKeachie, W. J. (2013). McKeachie’s Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers, 14th Edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing.

A Catalog of Instructional Strategies by The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University