Modular Mathematics Program

Teacher and Teaching Assistant's Resource Page

Sites that help teachers teach better!

Office of Faculty Development at Western Michigan University is dedicated to promoting excellence in teaching.

Teachers Helping Teachers -- The goal of this innovative site is:

To provide basic teaching tips to inexperienced teachers; ideas that can be immediately implemented into the classroom.
To provide new ideas in teaching methodologies for all teachers.
To provide a forum for experienced teachers to share their expertise and tips with colleagues around the world.

The University of Rochester's Department of Physics and Astronomy has a paper Notes and Suggestions for Teaching Assistants in Science and Engineering.
Here are some selected highlights:

Working at Teaching -- Yale University's web page dedicated to improving the teaching skills of graduate students. Includes references to workshops, educational resources, and seminars.

Recommended books on teaching available at Western Michigan University's Education Library are :

Tools for Teaching, Barbara Gross Davis, Josse-Bass, 1993
Teaching Tips, W.J. McKeachie, 8th ed., D.C. Heath, 1986

Resources online to help your teaching and studies!

Teaching and Learning Search This collection includes links to sites that use the World Wide Web for learning.

Writing HTML is a tutorial for creating Web pages. The site was created to help teachers create learning resources that access information on the Internet.

The World Lecture Hall -- A page of UT Austin Web Central containing links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials.

The On-line Books Page -- A good place to look for a text or reference. Literally hundreds of books are on-line through this Carnegie Mellon service. Texts are frequently being added.

TA Electronic Discussion List -- an electronic discussion list for college and university TA's all over the world. Discuss issues of interest and concerns to graduate Teaching Assistants. This will begin the composition of an e-mail message which allows you to join the list. In the body of the message put: sub t-assist your first name your last name. Be sure the return address is the e-mail address you want your messages sent.