active learning

• Active learning cheat sheet (Gregory Smith and Cynthia Brame)

• Inclusive teaching through active learning (Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, Brown University)

• How to make lectures more effective (Marilla Svinicki and William McKeachie)

• Interactive lecturing: A framework for active learning (Oregon State University Center for Teaching and Learning) 

• Instruction and Assessment: Classrooms as Learning Communities (in Teaching to Change the World, Oakes and Lipton)

• ISTR Daily Lesson Plan Template (UPenn Independent School Teaching Residency) 

• Key aspects of how the brain learns  (James Zull)

• What works, what doesn't (John Dunlosky, Katherine A. Rawson, Elizabeth J. Marsh, Mitchell J. Nathan and Daniel T. Willingham)

• Applying the science of learning to the university and beyond (Diane Halpern and Milton Hakel)

• Why Not Try a Scientific Approach to Science Education?  (Carl Wieman) 

• Energizing the college classroom with the science of emotion (in The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion, Sarah Rose Cavenaugh) 

• Active Learning Leads to Higher Grades and Fewer Failing Students  in Science, Math, and Engineering  (Wired)

• Mind, brain, education (Nellie Mae Education Foundation, Quincy,  MA)

• Four Principles of Memory Improvement: A Guide to Improving Learning Efficiency (Bennett L. Schwartz, Lisa K. Son, Nate Kornell, Bridgid Finn)

• Harnessing the Power of Uncertainty to Enhance Learning  (Acacia L. Overoye and Benjamin C. Storm)

• A Developmental Model of Critical Thinking (Deanna Kuhn)

• Confuse your students to help them learn (Steve Kolowich)

• Motivational interventions  (The Sheridan Center at Brown University)

• Grit: the power and passion of perseverance (Angela Duckworth)

• Mind-Sets and Equitable Education (Carol Dweck)

• Mindsets: the new psychology for success (Carol Dweck)

• Addressing achievement gaps with psychological interventions (David Yeager, Gregory Walton, and Geoffrey L. Cohen)

• Motivation, engagement, and student voice (Eric Toshalis and Michael Nakkula)

• Using Metacognition to Promote Learning (Barbara Millis)

• Self-Regulated Learning: Beliefs, Techniques, and Illusions (Robert A. Bjork, John Dunlosky, and Nate Kornell)

• Teaching philosophy outside (Ryan J. Johnson)

•  Facilitating Classroom Discussion of Sensitive Topics (Nina Emery) 

• Sample in-class debate handout (Nina Emery)

• Shifting mathematical authority from teacher to community (Corey Webel)

• Talk activities flowchart (Institute for Science and Math Education)

• Sample writing workshop handout (Nina Emery)

• Teaching students to write clearly (Nina Emery)

• Creating writing assignments (MIT) 

• Improving reading with writing (UMN)

• Critical thinking: why is it so hard to teach? (Daniel T Willingham)

General pointers

• Philosophical arguments (Nina Emery)

• Technical terms  (Nina Emery)

Writing

• How to get an A on your philosophy paper (Nina Emery)

• How to write a history of philosophy paper (Daniel Moerner)

• How to strucutre your (first!) philosophy paper (Ray Pedersen, developed for Peter Hanks's Introduction to Philosophy course)

Reading

• But how do I participate?  (Olivia Bailey)

Should I do this?

• What is it like to be a philosopher?

• Applying to Ph.D. Programs in Philosophy (Eric Schwitzgebel)