Academic Advising Resources at UNLV

• Academic Success Center
• Advising Graduate students
• Advising Undergraduate students
• Advising and Mentoring Postdocs
• Disability Resource Center
• English Language Center

• Research guidance for students:
  • Handouts to guide students’ research
  • Online tutorial to guide students’ research

• Student Counseling and Psychological Services

• Student Veterans
• Writing guidance for students:
  • Avoiding Plagiarism: Online guidelines for students
  • Handouts to guide students’ writing
  • Online writing consultations for students

Academic Career Development Resources (and Faculty Development Leave)

• Academic Career Advice Library, Inside Higher Ed
• Faculty Travel Funding
• Early-Career at UNLV
  • Academic Faculty Mentoring Program
  • Faculty Development Leave
  • Meet a teaching coach
  • Mentoring Groups for faculty/instructors
  • Orientation for new faculty/instructors
  • Teaching Development Workshops
    • Archived Webinars
    • Calendar of Events
    • Teaching at UNLV: Seminar Series
• Mid-Career and Advanced Career at UNLV
  • Collaborative Research and Education (CoRE) Fellows
  • Faculty Development Leave
  • Mentoring Groups for faculty/instructors
  • Meet a teaching coach
  • Leadership Development Academy
  • Provost’s Fellows for Mentoring and Faculty Development

Adult Learning

• Adult Learning

Assessment Resources at UNLV and Beyond

• Assessing Students' Learning
• Assessing Our Teaching
  • Making sense of student evaluations of teaching
  • Peer Review of Teaching: Sorcinelli Observation Guide
  • Peer Review of Teaching: Sample Guidelines and Documents from the University of Minnesota
  • Teaching Portfolios

Best Teaching Practices

• Best Teaching Practices: Summary Guides, Vanderbilt Center for Teaching
• Essays on Teaching Excellence, POD Network in Higher Education
• Instructional Moves from Harvard Initiative for Teaching and Learning and Graduate School of Education
• Mathematical Association of America 2017 Instructional Practices Guide
• Solve a Teaching Problem, Eberly Center for Teaching, Carnegie-Mellon
• Teaching and Learning Tip Sheets, Bok Center, Harvard University
• UNLV Best Practices Examples

Civility and Difficult Conversations in Teaching and Learning

• Teaching in Times of Crisis, Nancy Chick, Vanderbilt University, 2001
• Managing Hot Moments in the Classroom, and Tips for Dealing with Hot Moments. Lee Warren. Online Documents, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University.
• Diversity and Inclusive Teaching, Vanderbilt University
• Ground Rules for In-class Discussion, Arizona State University Intergroup Relations Center
• Top 10 Tips for Addressing Sensitive Topics and Maintaining Civility in the Classroom, Center for Faculty and Teaching Development San Francisco State University. Faculty Focus, (June 4, 2009)
• Faculty Field Guide for Promoting Student Civility in the Classroom, Boise State University
• Handling Conflict in the Classroom, Texas Tech University
• Addressing Students’ Needs: Dealing with Disruptive Behavior in the Classroom, Vanderbilt University
• Cooperative Controversies in the Classroom. David J. Bredehoft. College Teaching 39, 3
• Practical Strategies to Reduce or Eliminate Student Incivility, PJ Morrissette. International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning 5 (2001).​
• Guidelines for Discussing Difficult or Controversial Topics, and Responding to Difficult Moments, University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching

Clickers (automatic student response tools)

• Clickers at UNLV
• Clicker Resource Guide, Science Education Initiative
• Tips for Successful “Clicker” Use, Douglas Duncan, U of Colorado
• Web-based “clicker” software for use with cell phones:
  • Poll Everywhere
  • Socrative
  • Webclicker
  • Soap Box

Consultation: Individualized Teaching Advice at UNLV

• Consultation
• Meet a teaching coach

Crises

• Teachers Responding to Crisis Events

Disability Resources

• Faculty tips for accommodating students with visible and invisible disabilities

Discussion Teaching

• Facilitating Discussions (Harvard Initiative for Teaching and Learning)

Diversity and Inclusive Excellence in Teaching/Learning

• Building Community (Harvard Initiative for Teaching and Learning)
• Diversity and Inclusive Excellence in Higher Education
• Diversity and Inclusive Teaching
• First Generation Student Success, Heritage University videos
• International Students at UNLV
• Resources for Faculty and Students at UNLV
• Resources (U of Minnesota)

Evaluation and Evidence of Teaching Effectiveness

• Making sense of student evaluations of teaching
• Peer Review of Teaching: Sorcinelli Observation Guide
• Peer Review of Teaching: Sample Guidelines and Documents from the University of Minnesota
• Teaching Portfolios

Learning Outcomes

• UNLV University Undergraduate Learning outcomes
• Association of American Colleges and Universities Essential Learning Outcomes
• Employers’ Priorities Report
• Lumina Foundation Degree Qualification Profile

Lecturing

• Lecturing Interactively (Harvard Initiative for Teaching and Learning)

Mental Health Resources

• Mental Health Resources

Mentoring

• See also: Academic Advising Resources
• Advising Graduate Students
• Mentoring Groups at UNLV for Faculty, Instructors, and Academic Professionals
• Training and Mentoring Post-docs
• How to Be Mentored
• Mentoring Questions
• Making the Most of Mentors
• Maximizing Mentoring: A Guide for Building Strong Relationships 
• Peer Review of Teaching: Sorcinelli Observation Guide
• Peer Review of Teaching: Sample Guidelines and Documents from the University of Minnesota

Online and Hybrid Teaching

• Best Practices
• Classroom Technology
  • Classroom Technology Services
  • Clickers (Student Response Systems)
  • Technology Enhanced Classrooms
• Course Development
• Course Teams
• Custom Solutions
• External Resources
  • Educause Learning Initiative
  • Hybrid Pedagogy
  • Quality Matters
• Hybrid instruction
• Timeline (new course)
• Timeline (existing course)
• Training
• WebCampus Resources (Blackboard Learning Management System)

Orientation

• For New Faculty/Instructors
• For Graduate Students

Peer Learning

• Group Work
• Peer Instruction

Periodical Publications on Teaching and Learning

• Blogs
  • Agile Learning
  • Faculty Focus
  • Pedagogy Unbound
  • Perlmutter Advice
• Journals on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
• Newspapers / Newsletters
  • Inside Higher Ed
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Essays on Teaching Excellence, POD Network in Higher Education
  • IDEA Papers, POD/IDEA Center
  • National Teaching and Learning Forum
  • STEM PROF Newsletter (Subscribe)
  • Teaching Newsletter, Chronicle of Higher Ed
  • The Teaching Professor
  • Times Higher Education

Policies and Forms for UNLV Faculty, Instructors, Employees

• NSHE and UNLV Policies
• Policies and Forms

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at UNLV

• Awards that recognize Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
  • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award
  • UNLV Academic Assessment Awards
• Grants that support Scholarship of Teaching and Learning projects and service
  • Assessment mini-grants
  • Start-up Scholarship of Teaching and Learning project mini-grants
• Ongoing UNLV SoTL Work
  • Directory of UNLV Researchers and Research (UNLV Folio - where you can add your project)

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Beyond UNLV

• ​The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (ISSOTL)
• Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD)
• SoTL Journals Directory

STEM Teaching

• Reaching Students: What Research Says About Effective Instruction in Undergraduate Science and Engineering (National Academies Press, 2015) 
• STEM Prof weekly newsletter
• Carl Wieman Science Education Institute resource page
• PULSE: Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education 
• Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
• Project Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL)

Syllabus Requirements at UNLV

• Syllabus Requirements

Troubled Students

• Police Services at UNLV
• Protocol for Incidents Involving Students of Concern at UNLV
• Student Conduct at UNLV
• Student Counseling and Psychological Services at UNLV

Teaching Advice, Materials at UNLV

• Avoiding Plagiarism: Online guidelines for students
• Class sessions and tours in the Library
• Consultation: Individualized Teaching Advice
• Research guidance for students:
  • Handouts to guide students’ research
  • Online tutorial to guide students’ research
• Writing guidance for students:
  • Avoiding Plagiarism: Online guidelines for students
  • Handouts to guide students’ writing
  • Online writing consultations for students
• See also above: Best Teaching Practices

Teaching Awards and Recognition at UNLV

• Awards and Recognition

Workshops and Webinars

• Archived Webinars at UNLV
• Calendar of Events at UNLV
• EDUCAUSE free webinar series (technology, teaching and learning)
• Innovative Educators’ free webinar series
• Staff Training opportunities at UNLV
• Teaching at UNLV: Seminar Series
• Workshops and Webinars for Graduate Students at UNLV

Writing Groups for Faculty, Instructors and Academic Professionals at UNLV

• Writing groups at UNLV

Writing Help for UNLV Students

• UNLV Writing Center
• Graduate Student Write-ins and Workshops