Teaching & Learning: Resources for Professional Development
This guide highlights the library resources available to faculty and staff to aide professional development, including journals, DVDs, 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
New Professional Development Titles at Grenfell
eJournals
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Innovative TeachingFor academic professionals and researchers focused on excellence and effectiveness in teaching at the senior high school and college undergraduate levels.
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Journal of University Teaching & Learning PracticePeer-reviewed journal bridges the gap between purely academic research and more pragmatic articles and opinions.
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Journal of Learning in Higher EducationCovers topics in higher education, including administration of academic programs, teaching, faculty conducted research, etc.
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Teaching in Higher EducationInternational, peer-reviewed journal addressing the roles of teaching, learning and the curriculum in higher education.
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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.
Suggestions for Purchases
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DVDs
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The Art of Teaching: Best Practices from a Master EducatorCall Number: Grenfell LB 1025.3 A77 2010A series of 30-minute lectures to develop and enhance teaching style and provide methods, tools, and advice for handling all manner of teaching scenarios. -
Faking the Grade by Call Number: Grenfell LB 3609 F36 2012Publication Date: 2012The film reveals what comprises a cheating offence and how the internet is being used to cheat - and to catch the cheaters. Discover the wide variety of other techniques young people are using to cheat, set in the context of some shocking, real-life examples of academic dishonesty.
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