Teaching & Learning: Resources for Professional Development
This guide highlights the library resources available to faculty and staff to aide professional development, including journals, films, new books, and more!
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Teaching Perspectives Inventory
The Teaching Perspectives Inventory (TPI) can help you collect your thoughts and summarize your ideas about teaching. It can be useful in examining your own teaching as well as helping clarify the teaching views of other people.
Why should I take the TPI?
It can be useful and informative if you are:
- preparing for a teaching evaluation or promotion and tenure
- creating your teaching dossier
- reflecting on your own teaching
- researching teaching perspectives
- curious about different approaches to teaching
eJournals
- Journal of Learning in Higher EducationCovers topics in higher education, including administration of academic programs, teaching, faculty conducted research, etc.
- Journal of Research in Innovative TeachingThe journal's mission is to collect and disseminate advanced research-based information on teaching and learning.
- Journal of University Teaching & Learning PracticePeer-reviewed journal bridges the gap between purely academic research and more pragmatic articles and opinions.
- New Directions for Teaching and LearningOffers a range of ideas and techniques for improving higher education teaching based on the experience of seasoned instructors and the latest findings of researchers.
- Teaching in Higher EducationInternational, peer-reviewed journal addressing the roles of teaching, learning and the curriculum in higher education.
Related Guides
We have many other resources to assist with teaching:
Suggestions for Purchases
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Professional Development Collection
- New Books and other Resources
Browse the newest books in the Grenfell Library's collection about teaching, student support, and other areas of academic administration.
Featured Resource
The art of teaching: Best practices from a master educatorCall Number: Grenfell Circ LB 1025.3 A77 2010ISBN: 1598036432A series of 30-minute lectures to develop and enhance teaching style and provide methods, tools, and advice for handling all manner of teaching scenarios.
Films
- SAGE Video: EducationOver 600 streaming films covering a full range of teaching settings and situations, from early years to educational leadership, to support students needing to understand theory or how to apply it in practice.
- DVD CollectionTeaching and professional development DVDs at the Grenfell Library.