Teaching Strategies

This website is a wonderful resource. Basically, it is just a site with numerous different types of information on it. And for each specific topic there are approximately 10-15 resources that directly relate. These include brief summaries of ideas, articles that demonstrate the different subcategories, as well as detailed descriptions of how to deal with certain scenarios.

The main page begins with multiple categories including: academic integrity and incivility in the classroom, approaches/teaching methods, evaluation of teaching, evaluation of student learning (testing, grading, feedback), instructional technology and online teaching, learning styles and theories, multiculturalism/diversity in teaching, scholarship of teaching and learning, & syllabus and course design. Furthermore, under these categories are a variety of different subcategories, and even some of the subcategories have categories under them. For instance, "evaluation of student learning" has assessment of learning, classroom assessment techniques, feedback on student writing, & testing and grading issues under it. Each of these categories then has the 10-15 very specific resources I discussed earlier.

These resources are very beneficial not only for aspiring teachers or even beginning teachers, but also for people who have been teaching for a longer period of time. While it is largely intended for college professors, and would not work for much younger ages, it would definitely be useful for high school teachers. As well, since this is a college website there are going to be updates relatively often so there won’t be any worries about the information being dated. Rather, the information will actually be quite new and innovative since new articles will be added to the subcategories and new subcategories can get updated as well.

Just about any questions or ideas you may be interested in having to do with teaching strategies are available on this website. Some pieces may need to be modified to fit a younger group, but there are definitely numerous ideas that can be taken from here and utilized within a high school or more mature middle school classroom. I would highly recommend this site to everyone, not only English teachers.

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