October 2:  First Day of Class -- What to Do

The First Day of Class, chapter from Tools for Teaching by Davis.
(optional)  Tips for new and nervous teachers
(optional)  The First Day of Class, Jeffrey Wolcowitz (not online)

October 9:  Lecturing and Leading Discussions

 Delivering a Lecture, chapter from Tools for Teaching by Davis

 Helpful resource!!  Steve Wolfman's  page  of opening stunts

 Steve's notes on answering questions

October 16:  Grading and Assessment

 Grading Practices, chapter from Tools for Teaching by Davis
 Managing the Grading Process, chapter 2 from Effective Grading by Walvoord and Anderson (not online)

 Mausam's notes on grading

October 23:  Challenging Situations

 Teacher-Student Confrontations, chapter by Joyce L. Hocker (not online)

 Rick's notes on challenging situations

October 30:  Learning Styles and Teaching Styles

Please take the learning styles survey to see what type of learner you are.  You can find the link to the web version of the survey here.

 Reaching the Second Tier: Learning and Teaching Styles in College Science Education by Richard Felder in the Journal of College Science Teaching, Vol. 23, 1993.
 Handout on the Perry Scheme (not online)

 Tammy's notes on learning and teaching styles

 Activities generated by groups to teach a recursive process.

November 6:  Active Learning in the Classroom

 Active Learning and its use in Computer Science  by Jeffrey J. McConnell, Proceedings of SIGCSE/SIGCUE, 1996.

(optional) Active Learning by Jeffrey McConnell (Canisius College) (more comments on active learning)

 (optional) An interactive lecture approach to teaching computer science  by Susan H. Rodger, Proceedings of SIGCSE, 1995.

 Activities  generated by groups during the class session.

November 13:  Developing Homework and Exams

 Finding Interesting Examples and Assignments for CS 1/2 Assignments by Henry M. Walker (not online)
 Testing and Assessing Learning:  Assigning Grades Is Not the Most Important Function, chapter 7 from Teaching Tips by Wilbert J. McKeachie (not online)

November 20:  Uses and Abuses of Humor in the Classroom (led by Andrei Alexandrescu)

 Just Humor Them: How to make presentations memorable  by Ronald P. Culberson
 Why Use Humor in the Classroom?  by Ron Deiter
 Humor in the Classroom
 Laugh with Me and You Can Laugh at Me  by George Simons
 Gaffes and Laffs
 (optional) Office humor is no laughing matter

November 27:  Gender/Diversity Issues in CS

Please read:
Women and Computer Science  by Sharon Harrelson, an undergraduate student at William and Mary.
 The Plight of a Minority in Computer Science: An Educational Manifesto  by Amos O. Olagunju, ACM SIGCSE, 1991.

Read 1 of the following:
Epistemological Pluralism and the Revaluation of the Concrete by Sherry Turkle and Seymour Papert (not online)
 Gender Differences in Learning to Program by Janet Carter and Tony Jenkins, Computing Research News, March 2000, pp. 2, 14.
 Women in IT: Is the Pipeline Still Shrinking? by Tom Jepsen, IT Professional, Sept./Oct. 2001.

Other resources (optional):
 Gender Differences in Personality Components of Computer Science Students: A Test of Holland's   Congruence Hypothesis by William Haliburton et al., ACM SIGCSE, 1998.
 Gender and Programming: What's Going On? by Janet Carter and Tony Jenkins, ACM ITiCSE 1999.
 The Internet and computer games reinforce the gender gap by Lisa Rabasca, Monitor on Psychology, October 2000.
 Geek Mythology and Attracting Undergraduate Women to Computer Science by Jane Margolis and Allan Fischer, Carnegie Mellon University.
 Statement made by Ed Lazowska
 Summary of "Talking about Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences"  by Robert C. Thomas
 CSE's page about minorities
 CSE's page about women
 

December 4:  Preparing for Quiz Section

 Leading Quiz Sections at UW from the TA Handbook for University of Washington students
 Teaching Problem Solving from the TA Handbook for University of Washington students
 Quiz Sections (from handbook at Northwestern)

December 11:  The CS Curriculum

 What (Else) Should CS Educators Know? by Gal-Ezer and Harel
 Curriculum 2001
 UW Undergrad Handbook  on the Prospective Student page (see sections about course requirements)