CSE599 TA Training Resources

CSE599A TA Training - Teaching Resources

Tools
- Learning your students' faces and names (UW-CSE access only)
- Preparing quick surveys / quizzes for your students through UW Catalyst's WebQ tool (UW access only)
  - all UW Catalyst tools (UW access only)
- Center for Instructional Development and Research (CIDR) Resources on Teaching
- Educational Technology Resources at UW-CSE
- UW-CSE TA Home Page

Teaching tips
- The First Day of Class -- a chapter from "Tools for Teaching" by Barbara Gross Davis.
- Tomorrow's Professor listserv.
  (Sends about one email per week on a topic related to doing effective teaching and research; archive also available online.)
- "How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition", edited by John Bransford et al.
  (Reveals the high-level principles of learning: connecting to prior knowledge, knowledge transfer, etc.)
- "The Professional Teacher", by Peter Denning.
- Other books (that are not online but that would be well worth having):
  - "Classroom Assessment Techniques", by Thomas Angelo and K. Patricia Cross.
  - "Effective Grading", by Barbara Walvoord and Virginia Anderson.

Articles specific to CS education
- What (Else) Should CS Educators Know?, by Judith Gal-Ezer and David Harel.
- ... [Send me ones that you've found insightful and they will be linked here.]

Activities and assignments
- Nifty Assignments (in Computer Science)
- Kinesthetic Learning Activities
- Learning Styles Questionnaire
  - Some background behind it.
  - More articles on learning styles with examples.
- Myers-Briggs Personality Type Test
  - ... and one possible results interpretation.