Professional Teacher - Roles

Ethical Principles in Teacher Preparation: click here for a pdf paper developed by the Society of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education [national 3M Teacher Award].
Principle 1: Content Competence
Principle 2: Pedagogical Competence
Principle 3: Dealing with Sensitive Topics
Principle 4: Student Development
Principle 5: Dual Relationships with Students
Principle 6: Confidentiality
Principle 7: Respect for Colleagues
Principle 8: Valid Assessment of Students
Principle 9: Respect for Institution

Teaching Research

"Tomorrow's Professor" postings [link] These postings are indexed and arranged topically. The full text is viewable online for each posting.
Academic Impressions - a resource of conferences, articles, information, and other topics related to teaching.
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching - arranged in education groups (ie., higher education, secondary education).

Online and Distance Education

Consortium for School Networking: Advancing Educational Technology
Creative Commons: copyright cleared audio. video, images for education
Community Technology Centers Network: A national association of more than 1000 diverse community technology centers.
ePals : classroom exchange with students of other countries ... connecting over 100,000 classrooms, 6.5million students and educators in 191 countries
SlideShare for education

APA Writing Style

APA Tutor is a site that is designed to help students who are new to using the APA Publication Guide.

Faculty Course Development Resources

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching
MIT Open Courseware: course content searchable by subject and keyword from MIT with lectures, assignments, and more. This site is great for linking from your course site and recommended for those who need some extra learning on a topic.

Web Design Software

Open source, free Software
NVU: Web Design WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) - free downloads for PCs, Linux, and Macs
Irfanview: free graphics editor for optimizing graphics for the web

Software for Purchase (recommended)
Adobe CS3 (Creative Suite) - expensive, but well worth the price for web designers

 

Learning Styles

Comparative Study of the MBTI types and the Enneagram types [link]

Online Assessments

Jung Typology assessment [link]
Enneagram [full Rheti is recommended $10 fee, payable online] [link]
VARK Learning Styles Assessment [link]

These three assessments cover various aspects of your style. The assessments are not exclusive one to the next. The VARK also offers "Help Sheets" or suggested methods for learning based on one's style. These sheets are helpful to instructors in developing course content. It is natural that teachers and designers will design according to their own style, so becoming aware of other styles aids in assisting students of varied styles. It is very effective to use the VARK with students and then designing experiences with students of the same type as well as experiences with groups of students of mixed types.

Microsoft Office Tutorials and Information

Microsoft Office Center

MS Office Demos and Training for 2003 and 2007

Learn More: PowerPoint 2003 2007

Learn More: Word 2003 2007

Learn More: Excel 2003 2007

Learn More: Publisher 2003 2007

Templates for Educators

Shelley Cashman Learning Series for Office2003
Shelley Cashman Learning Series for Office2007
This is a great training series for teaching or use as a tutorial for students. Offers teaching download with all kinds of extras.

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