CHEM 601 and BISC 603 INTRODUCTION TO LABORATORY INSTRUCTION Some Links to Useful Information

TA Handbooks and Training Programs

• University of Delaware TA Handbook
• University of Texas,Teaching Pedagogy to Graduate Student Instructors
  
• A Guide for Teaching Assistants in the Biological Sciences at Columbia University
• TA Resources Handouts from Stanford's Teaching and Learning Center
• Guidebook for Teaching Laboratories - University of Michigan
• Graduate Teacher Program at The University of Colorado at Boulder
• Preparing Future Faculty
• Writing lab reports - North Carolina State University
  

• Links to the postings on Tomorrow's Professor ListServ
• Searchable Archives of ChemEd ListServ communications

• Advances in Physiology Education
• Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education
• Bioscience-Journal of College Biology Teaching
• CBE-Life Science Education
  
• Chemistry Education: Research and Practice
• Journal of College Science Teaching
• Journal of Chemical Education
• Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
• Science Magazine Education Forum
  

• Chemistry comes alive

• Problem-Based Learning (PBL)
• Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL)
  
• Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry (POGIL)
  

• PKAL - Project Kaleidoscope Home Page
• Council on Undergraduate Research
• CELS- Coalition for Education in the Life Sciences
• National Science Teachers Association
• National Institute for Science Education
• National Center for Science Education
• National Association of Biology Teachers
• BioSciencesEdNet - Portal for digital libraries for teaching and learning in the biological sciences
• Richard Felder's Home Page RESOURCES IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION
• FLAG - Field-tested Learning Assessment Guide for Science, Math, Engineering, and Technology Instructors
• Ask ERIC - an information data base from Education Resourses Information Center
• Standards for the Ph.D. Degree in the Molecular Biosciences
• Concept Tests in Chemistry
• Chemical Misconceptions
• ChemFinder Access to Chemistry Data Bases
• ChemConnections - Systemic Change Initiatives in Chemistry Education
• University of Delaware Department of Occupational Health and Safety
• Periodic Table information
  
• Molecule of the Month - Oxford University
• Molecule of the Month - Bristol
• Team-based learning
• Education Applets of molecular motion
  

• Handbook on Teaching Undergraduate Science Courses: A Survival Training Manual - by Gordon Uno
• They're Not Dumb, They're Different: Stalking the Second Tier - by Sheila Tobias (1990)
  
• Revitalizing Undergraduate Science: Why Some Things Work and Most Don't - by Sheila Tobias (1992)
  
• Creating Significant Learning Experiences - by L. Dee Fink (2003)
  
• How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School - National Research Council (2000)
• How Students Learn Science in the Classroom - National Research Council (2005)
• How Students Learn Mathematics in the Classroom - National Research Council (2004)
• Scientific Teaching - by Jo Handelsman, Sarah Miller, and Christine Pfund (2007)
  

• Site for business people with a lot of good educational links and ideas, Businessballs