Getting Started in Teaching
Writing a Syllabus
- Vanderbilt Center for Teaching – Syllabus Design
- Yale Center for Teaching and Learning – Syllabus Design
- Chronicle of Higher Education – How to Create a Syllabus Advice Guide
Developing Learning Objectives
CIRTL Learning objectives vs. syllabus
CIRTL Rationale for writing learning objectives
CIRTL How to write learning objectives
Designing a Course
Teaching Using Active Learning
- Active Learning Strategies
- CourseSource
- LSE Evidence-based Teaching Guides
- LSE Approaches to Biology Teaching and Learning
- UT Austin Teaching Portal
- HHMI Biointeractive
- National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science
- Course-based undergraduate research experiences: CUREnet
Assessment
- Teaching more by grading less (or differently)
- Rubrics
- Authentic assessment toolbox
- Collecting evidence on science teaching
Promoting Equity and Inclusion
- Strategies to promote equity
- Microaggressions
- Affect in learning
- Learning to see inequity
- Making science relevant
- Cultural sensitivity and competence
- Scientist spotlights
Recognizing the community cultural wealth of academically successful Black science students
Mentoring
Mentoring in Research
- Center for Improvement of Mentored Experience in Research- free training materials based on Entering Mentoring
- Research mentor training
Mentoring in Teaching
Mentoring to Broaden Participation
- National Research Mentoring Network
- CBE - Life Sciences Education Special Issue on Broadening Participation
- Understanding Interventions
Mentoring Faculty
Professional Development
Improving Your Teaching
- Promoting Active Learning & Mentoring
- HHMI Summer Institute on Scientific Teaching
- AAC&U Project Kaleidoscope STEM Leadership Summer Institute
Networking
- ASCB Annual Meeting programming
- ASCB Regional Educators meeting--View Slides and Resources from the 2020 Meeting
- American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators (ASMCUE)
- Gordon Research Conference on Undergraduate Biology Education Research
- Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE)
- Partnership for Undergraduate Life Science Education (PULSE)
- Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) Network
- Biology Teaching Assistant Project (BioTAP) - specific to programming for graduate student teaching professional development
- STEMCentral
Careers in Education
- ASCB
- Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC)
- HigherEd Jobs
- Preparing a teaching demonstration
- Postdocs in teaching
- Postdoc teaching fellowships
- Postdocs in education research
Education Scholarship
Getting Acquainted with Education Scholarship
- LSE Anatomy of an education study
- Online with LSE webinars
Developing Education Research Skills
- Research Methods Essays
- Biology education research postdocs
- Improving Undergraduate Biology Education Based on Research in Science Learning (formerly known as ASM Biology Scholars)
Publishing Your Education Scholarship
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