The 2009 kit is under review for updates to be included in the 2011 session; please check back soon.

2009 New Faculty Resource Kit

This list of resources was used during the NFTY Summer Institute which was designed to assist new faculty in their first years of teaching. Materials that are available online are linked below.

We regret that CST is not able to print and forward copies of the materials that are available online, or to reproduce the entire kit, except under circumstances where accessibility may be at issue. If you would like to obtain a copy of an article that is listed here as available only in print, please send email to CST. Thank you for your understanding.

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• Summer Institute
  • Materials
  • Information About Students at York
• Course Planning
  • Essential Information and Policy
  • On Campus Resources and Support
  • Student Learning and Development
  • What Students Need to Learn
  • Preparing your syllabus
  • Integrating Research into Learning
  • Remediation Policy & Practices 2008/2009
• Teaching Strategies
  • Inclusive Teaching
  • Academic Integrity
  • Critical Skills
  • Teaching and Assessing Writing Skills
  • Lectures and Discussion
• Evaluation
  • Assessment and Evaluation
  • Evaluation of Teaching

Summer Institute: Materials

• 2008 NFTY Program
• 2008 CST Brochure (PDF 170 KB)
• CST Policy on Confidentiality in Consulting
• University Senate Policy and Procedures - Selected Index and Services and Support Units on Campus (PDF File: 36 KB)
• Technology Services for Faculty
• Things You Need to Know About Computing at York

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Summer Institute: Information About Students at York

• Who Are York's Undergraduates? VP Students, 2002 (MS Word 29K)
• 2005 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE): Summary of Selected Results, York University (PDF 222K)
• Faculty Resource Guide: Teaching Students with Disabilities, Access York 2008
• York University Resources for People with Disabilities

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Course Planning: Essential Information and Policy

• Important Dates (Academic Session, Religious Observance, and Statutory Holidays)
• Senate Religious Observance and Religious Accommodation Guidelines
• Senate Policy Regarding Academic Accommodation for Students with Disabilities
• Information and Privacy at York University
• Finding Your Class List Online
• Ethical Principles in University Teaching. Harry Murray, Eileen Gillese, Madeline Lennon, Paul Mercer, and Marilyn Robinson, Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 1996 (PDF 48KB)

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Course Planning: On Campus Resources and Support

Where to find resources and support for your course and teaching

• Computing at York: Computing for Faculty and Staff
• Technology Enhanced Learning: Services
• York Libraries: Specialized Services for Faculty and Graduate Students
• Bookstore: Services for Faculty
• Copyright and You: Copying on Campus
• Digital Copyright PowerPoint presentation by Sharon Wang, Sarah Coysh and Andrea Kosavic, York University Libraries Research Frontiers Series, November 13, 2007(PDF 83K)
• Sound and Moving Image Library
• Mediasite recording: Doing Copyright in the TEL Classroom, 2007 TEL@York Conference
• Experiential Education Office
• How to request the development of a Moodle Course site at York University
• Terms of Use for eJournals & eBooks: York University Libraries

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Course Planning: Student Learning and Development

Helpful things to know about student learning and development

• Promoting Students' Intellectual Growth. Marva A. Barnett, 2000
• Why They Don't Get It: Learning from Our Students and Their Writing, Harriet Rosenberg, 2005
• Short video: "Teaching Teaching and Understanding Understanding"
• Counselling and Disability Services

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Course Planning: What Students Need to Learn

• The Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University: Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1998
• Ontario Council on Graduate Studies Graduate Degree Level Expectations (PDF 41K)

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Course Planning: Preparing Your Syllabus

• Senate CCAS Basic Course Outline Model (PDF 44K)
• Teaching Goals Inventory Online, T. Angelo and P. Cross
• Teaching Goals Inventory and Self-Scorable Worksheet, T. Angelo and P. Cross
• A Self-Directed Guide to Designing Courses for Significant Learning, L. Dee Fink, 2003
• Enhancing teaching through constructive alignment. John Biggs, 1996. Higher Education 32.3: 347-364 (PDF 1MB)
• See also in Voices from the Classroom: Reflections on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (Garamond, 2001):
  • "Course Planning: From Design to Active Classroom," by Jan Rehner & John Spencer (129)
  • "The Dialect of Course Development: I Theorize, They React...And Then?" by Jerry Ginsburg (136)

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Course Planning: Integrating Research into Learning

Instructional approaches that increase student engagement by integrating research into learning

• Designing a curriculum that values a research-based approach to student learning. Alan Jenkins (Word 132K)
• Linking teaching and research in disciplines and departments. Alan Jenkins, Mick Healey & Roger Zetter (2008) (PDF 280K)
• Linking Teaching and Research in the Disciplines, web site hosted by Oxford Brookes University (Follow link to this article under 'Latest publications'.)
• Information and links on learning through Inquiry
• Problem-Based Learning
• AACU Clearing House on Inquiry-based and problem-based learning (peer-reviewed problems and articles to assist faculty in using PBL)
• Team-based learning
• Large Team-based learning sessions enhanced with new classroom technologies

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Course Planning: Remediation Policy & Practices 2008/2009

• FAQs about Remediating Courses: For Course Instructors and Directors
• FAQs about Remediating Courses: For TAs
• Three tools to save time in your teaching: A super simple Moodle start up guide for absolute beginners
• Remediation information issued by the Executive Committee of Senate
• Human Resources and Employee Relations FAQs for returning CUPE Local 3903 Employees
• Resources for your students

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Teaching Strategies: Inclusive Teaching

• Inclusive Teaching at York University Bulletin No.1 SCOTL, January 2000)
• Inclusive Teaching at York University Bulletin No.2 SCOTL, March 2000
• CORE Anti-Racist Teaching (October 2001)
• Establishing Constructive Dialogue in the Classroom University of Arizona. In Core 10.3, April 2001
• Faculty Resource Guide: Teaching Students with Disabilities, Access York 2008
• York University Web Accessibility Site
• Strategies for assessing learning and giving feedback for ESL students. Joan Page and Ros Woodhouse, 2006
• Alternative (but just as rigorous!) Assessments. Ros Woodhouse, 2006

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Teaching Strategies: Academic Integrity

• 2010/11 Academic Integrity Letter from Norma Sue Fisher-Stitt (Word Doc)
• Senate Policy on Academic Honesty (Senate, April 2005)
• Academic Integrity Web Site for York University
• CORE Newsletter on Academic Integrity (Volume 12, Number 2, January 2003)
• Academic Integrity Brochure, a précis of Core 12:2. (PDF, 385K)

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Teaching Strategies: Critical Skills

• Links to articles and resources on teaching critical skills: Centre for Teaching Excellence, University of Nebraska
• Teaching critical thinking through on-line discussions. Carol B. MacKnight (PDF 72 KB)
• Critical Skills Course Worksheet. Available from the CST in hard copy only

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Teaching Strategies: Teaching and Assessing Writing Skills

• Responding to Student Writing. Nancy Sommers, May 1982
• Why Johnny Can't Write, Even Though He Went to Princeton. Thomas Bartlett, 2003

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• The Reach of Culture. Helen Fox, 1994. Available from the CST in hard copy only.
• Review by Carolyn Matalene, 1995 : Listening to the World: Cultural Issues in Academic Writing, Helen Fox, 1994
• Strategic Feedback for Writing. Dana Ferris, 2002. Available from the CST in hard copy only.
• Writing Tutor Tips: The Local and the Global. ESL Committee of the English Department at IU South Bend, 2005 (PDF 21 KB)

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Teaching Strategies: Lectures and Discussion

• Fairness in the Classroom. Bernard E. Whitley Jr., David V. Perkins, Deborah Ware Balogh, Patricia Keith-Spiegel, Arno F. Wittig, 2001
• Notes on lecturing. Phil Race
• Giving Effective Lectures. Educational Initiative Centre, University of Westminster, 2004 (PDF 350 KB)
• See also in Voices from the Classroom: Reflections on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (Garamond, 2001): "Effective Lecturing Techniques" by Leslie Green (184)
• Frederick, Peter. "The Dreaded Discussion: Ten Ways to Start. Classroom Communication: Collected Readings for Effective Discussion and Questioning. R. Neff and M. Weimer, Eds. Madison, WI: Magna, 1989. An adaptation of this material available online
• Enhancing learning with laptops in the classroom. Eds. L.B. Nilson, B.E. Weaver (2005). New Directions for Teaching and Learning 101. [Click on the journal title to find issue 101, Spring 2005.]

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Evaluation: Assessment and Evaluation

• Senate Policy on Grading Scheme and Feedback (Senate, January 1994)
• Senate Policy on Common Grading Scheme for Undergraduate Faculties (Senate, May 1980)
• Readings on Assessment (CST)(PDF 27 KB)
• Resources on Assessment (CST)
• Quizzes, Tests And Exams. Barbara Gross Davis, 1993
• CORE Newsletter on Assessment for Active Learning (13:3, April 2004)
• Getting the Most Out of Multiple Choice Questions: Proceedings from the 2007-2008 Teaching and Learning Development Workshop Series at facilitated by David DiBattista, November 21, 2007
• Responding to and Evaluating Student Essays (Glennet al, 2003) Available from the CST in hard copy only..
• Evaluation tools for investigating the impact of assessment regimes on student learning. Evelyn Brown, Graham Gibbs, and Chris Glover, 2003 [Please see also Appendix 1 & 5]
• Group Seminar Evaluation Form, J. Rehner, 1999
• Reading Summary Form, J. Rehner, 1999
• See also in Voices from the Classroom: Reflections on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (Garamond, 2001):
  • "Sequencing Assignments" by James Brown (282)
  • "An Individualized Approach to Teaching and Evaluation" by Gary Bunch (306)

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Evaluation: Evaluation of Teaching

What you need to know about how teaching is evaluated at York

• Teaching Documentation Guide. Senate Committee on Teaching and Learning (SCOTL), York University, 1993 (PDF 52 KB)
• Teaching Assessment & Evaluation. SCOTL, York University 2002(PDF 60 KB)
• CORE York Assessment Forum (Core 9:3, March 2000)
• Preparing a teaching dossier: A conceptual approach and practical strategies. Ros Woodhouse, 2006
• Developing a Philosophy of Teaching Statement. Nancy Van Note Chism, OhioState University

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