Principles of Teaching & Learning

• How Learning Works: Eight Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching, 2nd Edition. Lovett et al. (2023) (Not free, but maybe your university library has it)

• How People Learn. National Research Council (2000). Free Book PDF. https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9853/how-people-learn-brain-mind-experience-and-school-expanded-edition

• How People Learn II. National Research Council (2018). Free Book PDF. https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/24783/how-people-learn-ii-learners-contexts-and-cultures

Teaching inclusively

• Equity & Inclusion Focus Areas: Seagroves et al. (2022): https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8cz4r718 

• Universal Design for Learning: UDL: https://udlguidelines.cast.org/

• The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching. Free Book PDF.

Backwards Design & Inquiry

• "Distances in the Universe: An Inquiry Lab Sequence Taught in West Africa and North America."
  CourseSource, 10 (2023).
  By Linda Strubbe, Deborah Good, Jielai Zhang, Heidi White, Kelly Lepo, Warren Code, Sarah Abotsi-Masters.
  https://doi.org/10.24918/cs.2023.3

• What is “backwards design” and how can I use it in my physics classes? (S. Chasteen)

• Enquiry-based learning | astroEDU (L. Strubbe)

Active Learning & Group Work

• PDF of ABCD card: https://www.as.arizona.edu/cae/download/workshopfiles/ABC_Card.pdf

• Online platforms for Think-Pair-Share: Slido, Mentimeter, PollEverywhere

• Think-Pair-Share questions and Lecture Tutorials from the Center for Astronomy Education: https://www.as.arizona.edu/cae/materials_resources/ 

• Think-Pair-Share questions from University of Lincoln-Nebraska Astronomy: https://astro.unl.edu/classaction/ 

• Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative (UBC): Many short two-page summaries of components of active learning: http://www.cwsei.ubc.ca/resources/instructor/index.html

• Implementing Group Work in the Classroom | Centre for Teaching Excellence | University of Waterloo

• PhET - Online physics and astronomy simulations (free)

Reflecting on our Teaching

• “Reflecting on our teaching with gratitude and compassion.”
  Blog post for Teaching Made Visible (2023).
  By Linda Strubbe.
  https://teachingmadevisible.com/2023/06/reflecting-on-our-teaching-with-gratitude-and-compassion/

• "Faculty Adoption of Active Learning Strategies via Paired Teaching: Conclusions From Two Science Departments."
  Journal of College Science Teaching, Vol. 49, No. 1, 31-39, (2019).
  By Linda E. Strubbe, Jared Stang, Tara Holland, Sarah Bean Sherman, and Warren J. Code.
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/26901347 (See pdf here)

• "Teaching Triangles: Motivation to engage in faculty development in a new multicultural university in Central Asia."
  EdArXiv Preprint (2024).
  By Linda Strubbe, Genevieve Balderston, Ian Canlas.
  https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/wvyfg

Additional resources

• Free online undergraduate astronomy textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/astronomy-2e/

• Videos: CrashCourse Physics and CrashCourse Astronomy (Can be used in Pre-class reading assignments)

• PhysPort: Resources, Assessment, Advice, Curricula for Physics and some Astronomy

• Advice for online teaching

  • “I suddenly have to move my face-to-face physics/astronomy course online! What should I do?”
    PhysPort Expert Recommendation (2020).
    By Linda E. Strubbe & Sarah B. McKagan.
    https://www.physport.org/recommendations/Entry.cfm?ID=119906 

  • “I suddenly have to move my lab course online! What should I do?”
    PhysPort Expert Recommendation (2020).
    By Linda E. Strubbe & Sarah B. McKagan.
    https://www.physport.org/recommendations/Entry.cfm?ID=119927

• Astronomy Education Research

  • Astronomy Education Journal

  • Astronomy Education Research - Focused Collection in Physical Review - Physics Education Research