Teaching Resources

Teaching Evaluation Alternatives
Ideas on options for ways instructors can demonstrate the impact of their teaching
The Scholarly Teacher
This blog emphasizes the importance of taking an informed and practiced approach to teaching
Instructional Moves from Harvard Initiative for Teaching and Learning and Graduate School of Education
The goal of this project is "to help you incorporate and refine high-leverage teaching practices tailored to the higher education context.”
Mathematical Association of America 2017 Instructional Practices Guide
Solve a Teaching Problem, Eberly Center for Teaching, Carnegie-Mellon

How to Make Your Teaching More Inclusive from The Chronicle of Higher Education
Cultural Humility: A Framework to Mitigate Personal Bias
This is a recorded webcast from Academic Impressions: Develop a practice that promotes wonderment and curiosity about the diversity of others in your daily interactions. (REQUIRES SIGN-IN -- FREE UNLV MEMBERSHIP)
Creating Safe Spaces for Students by Taking ACTION Against Microaggressions
A recorded webcast from Academic Impressions: Empower yourself to intervene in the moment of a microaggression to build community and trust with students. (REQUIRES SIGN-IN -- FREE UNLV MEMBERSHIP)
Resources to Engage in Conversations About Race and Anti-Racism
From Cornell University, this is an extensive list that includes courses, articles, books, films, podcasts, and more.
Tips on Creating an Inclusive Learning Environment
The most important things we do to foster student success and help our students progress towards graduation happen in the classroom. Here are some tips on what you can do to create an inclusive learning environment, and some campus resources you can refer students to in order to provide our full support.

SOTL Award
This annual award program was established to honor exceptional contributions to the scholarship of teaching and learning by a member of the UNLV teaching community. Learn more about this and other faculty awards on the Awards & Recognition webpage.
UNLV Academic Assessment Award
Grants that support Scholarship of Teaching and Learning projects and service
- Assessment mini-grants
- Start-up Scholarship of Teaching and Learning project mini-grants
  - 2017 recipient: Erdogan Kaya, Graduate Student, Department of Teaching and Learning, "Introducing Engineering to Elementary Pre-service Teachers through 3D Printing and Educational Robotics"
  - 2017-2018 recipient: Gwen Marchand, Associate Professor, Educational Psychology and Higher Education, "Development and Assessment of Targeted Open-Ended Student Evaluation of Teaching"
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Beyond UNLV

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