Santa Clara University

Issues in Teaching

• Academic Integrity
• Assessment of Student Learning
• Classroom Discussions
• Conferences on Teaching in Higher Education
• Curriculum Development Grants
• Grading
• Information Literacy
• Learning Centered Education 
• Mentoring Your Research Assistant
• Syllabus Design
• Teaching the First Year Student
• Technology and Teaching
• The National Survey of Student Engagement

Academic Integrity

• Practical Plagiarism Prevention
  From The Teaching Professor (May 2001)

Assessment of Student Learning

• Immediate Feedback on What Works in the Classroom, by Diane Jonte-Pace
• SALG instructions for faculty
• SALG Instructions for students
• Sample Generic SALG
• Sample SALG for Cynthia Baker's SCTR 19 course
• Sample SALG for Jane Curry's POLI 2 course 
• Sample SALG translated into Spanish
• Sample SALG template: Carroll's "Business Writing" course
• Sample SALG template: Jonte-Pace's "Religion in the Theories of Freud and Jung"

Classroom Discussions

• Classroom Discussions: Problems and Solutions
• Leading a Good Discussion
  Posing Useful Questions

Conferences on Teaching in Higher Education

• Recent and Upcoming Conferences and Workshops on Teaching

Curriculum Development Grants

• Dialogue & Design Grants – The Bannan Institute for Jesuit Educational Mission
• DISCOVER Grants for Curriculum & Course Development 
• Ethics across the Curriculum -- The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
• Faculty/Staff Multicultural Advancement Grants – The Center for Multicultural Learning
• Faculty Study Group Grants
• Funds for Technology Innovation
• Grants for Curriculum Development and Workshops to Educate on Violence against Women
• Teaching Grants – sponsored by the Faculty Development Program

Grading

• Grading to Promote Learning
• Saving Time by Grading More Efficiently

Information Literacy

• Five Reasons You Should Put a Little Information Literacy in Your Syllabus

Learning Centered Education

• Focusing on Learning Instead of Teaching, by David Tauck
• Learning Styles: Some Ideas about Learning, Intelligence, and Teaching
  (from Howard Gardner's Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century)
• Pedagogy of Surprise, by Diane Jonte-Pace  
• Pedagogies for the Teachable Moment: Challenging Racism on Campus. Faculty responses to the controversies of Winter 2007.

Mentoring Your Research Assistant

• Suggestions for Faculty Mentors and Student Research Assistants

Syllabus Design

• A Common-syllabus website for SCU, developed by Dan Lewis
• Software for Creating a Course Syllabus, recommended by Pedro Hernandez-Ramos
• What's in a Good Syllabus?, by Diane Jonte-Pace
• Sample SCU Syllabi 

Teaching the First Year Student

• Dialogues by Phil Kesten
• Pedagogy for the First Year Student by Diane Jonte-Pace

Technology and Teaching

• "Hybrid: Why?" by Pedro Hernandez-Ramos  
• Technologies for Learning website by Pedro Hernandez-Ramos

The National Survey of Student Engagement

• Information about the Survey and Santa Clara's Results