MIKE’S CURATED LIST OF ONLINE TEACHING RESOURCES:
1. John Hattie’s List of 252 Influences And Effect Sizes Related To Student Achievement
This resource is a list of the 252 most efficient ways to increase student learning performance, based off John Hattie’s meta-analysis and years of research. The list is a wealth of techniques to incorporate to increase student engagement, rigor and understanding of course content. The list goes from the most efficient to least efficient in order.
2. Whole Brain Learning Teaching Techniques
This resource explains whole brain learning teaching practices, which will increase student engagement and understanding. Whole Brain Learning involved seven techniques to ensure active learning and keep students in the moment fully engaged in the learning experience.
3. Bloom’s Taxonomy
This is an overview of Bloom’s Taxonomy, a teaching technique which will not only increase engagement and understanding but is also rigourous. It is an excellent way to lead students from memorizing facts, to demonstrate their understanding of the facts, to application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation of their meaning. It is an extremely engaging way to take the concept and lead the student to fully understand, articulate and apply it.
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4. The Vanderbelt Center for Teaching
https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/motivating-students/
This website is a wealth of information featuring sections dedicated to intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, the effects of motivation on learning styles, models of intrinsic motivation, strategies for motivating students, and ways to show students the appeal of a given subject.
5. The Center For Research on Learning and
Teaching's
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/tsms
This website has several articles on motivation. It has ideas on motivating students to set goals and read, as well as methods to increase students desire to learn, to write, to do their very best work, and perform well across all disciplines.
6. The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
https://www.nbpts.org/top-5-strategies-for-motivating-students/
This website is run by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Here they offer their top 5 strategies for motivating students. They explain how promoting a growth mindset over a fixed mindset, developing meaningful relationships with students, fostering a community of learners, establishing high expectations and clear goals, and being an inspirational role model all culminate to inspire students to do their very best.
7. Learning Environment and Classroom Management https://www.edutopia.org/topic/learning-environments
This website offers several articles explaining how to optimize seating arrangements, classroom decor and building design. Some of the articles included are: 10 common flexible seating myths, setting up your classroom for success, and dos and don’ts of classroom decorations.
8. What Makes a Good Learning Environment from Raccoon Gang https://raccoongang.com/blog/what-makes-good-learning-environment/
This blogpost reviews how to set up the classroom environment to according to the learners’ characteristics, learning and teaching goals, the activities you can do to support learning, the assessment strategies that drive and measure learning, and the culture you can create to directly infuse with the learning environment.
9. The ASCD Six Tips For Creating A Positive Learning Environment In Your Classroom http://inservice.ascd.org/six-tips-for-creating-a-positive-learning-environment-in-your-classroom/
This blogpost explains how collaborative classroom procedures, continual positive reinforcement, keeping the proper educator mindset, using the proper educational language, giving honest feedback, and being objective while seeking resolutions to student conflict all add up to create a positive learning environment.
