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Index to Teaching Effectiveness Award Essays
By Academic Area
Art and Architecture
- Making a Connection to the Distant Past, Catherine Becker (History of Art)
- Teaching Roman Monuments, Kimberly Cassibry (History of Art)
- Engaging with Primary Sources and Making Connections to Readings and Lectures, Tania Martin (Architecture)
- Teaching Triangulation of Research Methods, Jess Wendover (Architecture)
Engineering
Foreign Languages
- Teaching My Students to Fish, A.S. (Ed) Cheng (Mechanical Engineering
- Strategies to Provide Information Without Providing Answers, Christie Dowling (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- Incorporating Design-for-Environment into the Undergraduate Product Design Curriculum, Eric Masanet (Mechanical Engineering)
- Think Out of the Box, Gaurav Punj (Industrial Engineering and Operations Research)
- Giving a New Tune to Grammar, Hélène Bilis (French)
- Writing an Epistolary Novel in a Heritage Speaker Class, Victoria Somoff (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Humanities
- A New Way to Appreciate Cicero's Style, Yelena Baraz (Classics)
- Monstrous Texts: Overcoming Resistance to Literature, Mai-Lin Cheng (English)
- Re-Membering Our Histories, Re-Visioning Our Histories, Re-Writing Our Selves, Huma Dar (South and South East Asian Studies)
- Reciting Latin Verse, Edan Dekel (Classics)
- Nonstandard Approaches to Post-modernist Literature, Kate Elkins (Comparative Literature)
- An Epic in Miniature: Collaborations on a Thesis, Lael Gold (Comparative Literature)
- The Renaissance Lyric Poem as Pop Culture, Kimberly Johnson (English)
- Teaching History Students to Read Between the Lines, Lisa Kaborycha (History)
- Understanding the Lives of Ancient Egyptians, Deanna Kiser (Near Eastern Studies)
- Journals: The Key to Small Group Participation, Heather McCarty (History)
- The Undergraduate Research Paper, Karen McNeill (History)
- "Telling" Tales: The Quest for Meaning in Indian Folklore, Vasudha Paramasivan (South and Southeast Asian Studies)
- A New Approach to Teaching and Learning, Timothy Randazzo (Ethnic Studies)
- The Challenge of Thinking Historically, Alejandro Reyes Arias (Latin American Studies)
- Revitalizing & Contemporizing Ancient Literature, Heidi Saleh (Near Eastern Studies)
- Is Ariel the Same as the Little Mermaid?, Selby Schwartz (Comparative Literature)
- Creating Coherence with Conceptual Maps, Edith Replogle Sheffer (History)
- The Campus as Laboratory: Teaching Students to Think Historically About the Built Environment, William Scott (History)
- Experiments in Communicative Latin, William Short (Classics)
- Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask the Saturday Evening Post: or, How Literature is Like Math, Mayumi Takada (English)
- Becoming a Better Socrates, Benjamin Yost (Rhetoric)
- From Description to Analysis, Andrea Zemgulys (English)
Music, Film and Performance Studies
- Musical Form and Active Learning, Laura Basini (Music)
- Writers into Readers, Charles Scott Combs (Film Studies)
- Hearing John Cage: An Approach to Introducing Ambient Music, Brian Current (Music)
- I Love to Listen to Music, But I Don't Know Anything About It, Melina Esse (Music)
- Cultural and Communicative Approaches to Teaching Music, Mathew Gelbart (Music)
- Bringing Opera Closer to Home, Michael Markham (Music)
- Music and Multi Media: Staging Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, Anna Nisnevich (Music)
- If 'Writing about Music is Like Dancing about Architecture,' Maybe it is Time to Draw: Using Visual Aids to Introduce Musical and Stylistic Analysis, Francesca Rivera (Music)
- Musical Representation and Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Holly Watkins (Music)
Quantitative Fields
- Mathematics : The Universal Language of Science, Antar Bandyopadhyay (Mathematics & Statistics)
- When Wrong is All Right, Gautam Borooah (Mathematics)
- The Meaning Behind the Symbols, Aubrey Clayton (Mathematics)
- Breaking the Mathematical Language Barrier, Alexander Diesl (Mathematics & Statistics)
- Demystifying the Thought Process, Viswanath Sankaran (Mathematics & Statistics)
- The Zen of Reductions (How to Understand Computers by Becoming One), Ajeet Shankar (Computer Science)
Sciences
- Getting in Touch with Your Inner Physicist, Badr Albanna (Physics)
- Current-Literature Problem Solving as a Connection to the Real World: How Solving a Problem in the Classroom Expanded Professor-Graduate Student Mentorship from the Laboratory into the Classroom, Suzanne Blum (Chemistry)
- Slimemolds vs. the MCATs, J. Peter Coppinger (Plant and Microbial Biology)
- Teaching an Uncommon Sense, Sarah Cunningham (Integrative Biology)
- Kinesthesis in Science: Where Red Rover Meets Quantum Mechanics, Steve Dawson (Astronomy)
- Undergraduate Astronomy Journal Club, Louis-Benoit Desroches (Astronomy)
- Teaching Alice, William Dichtel (Chemistry)
- Motivating a Broad Audience with Research, Sophie Dumont (Molecular and Cell Biology)
- Science Education: Focus on Core Analytical Skills, James Endres (Molecular and Cell Biology)
- Development of an Inquiry-Based Activity from a Content Intensive Curriculum, Amanda Heddle (Environmental Science, Policy and Management)
- TALC: Individualized Assistance through Collaborative Learning, John Johnson (Astronomy)
- Teaching to Different Modes of Learning, Alexander Kauffman (Integrative Biology)
- An Example of the Use of Frameworks in Skills-Based Learning, Terry O'Brien (Integrative Biology)
- Social Science Meets Physical Science, Jessica Owley (Environmental Science, Policy and Management)
- Lessons from a Lesson on Stellar Evolution, Kathryn Peek (Astronomy)
- Improving Laboratory Courses, Nicholas L. Pivonka (Chemistry)
- Transforming Quizzes into Teaching and Learning Tools, Jennifer Powell (Molecular and Cell Biology)
- Players in the Pathway, Susan Schwab (Molecular and Cell Biology)
- Emphasizing Concepts in a Yeast Genetics Laboratory, Elizabeth Shank (Molecular and Cell Biology)
- Designing a Better Laboratory Course, Richard Keith Slotkin (Plant and Microbial Biology)
- Linking Theory and Experiement in a Biochemistry Lab, Giulietta Spudich (Molecular and Cell Biology)
- Groupwritten, Meredith Thomsen (Integrative Biology)
- Chemistry: The Other Foreign Language, Joel Thornton (Chemistry)
- How to Encourage Lecture Attendance through Discussion Activities, Mathew Wedel (Integrative Biology)
- Using the Peer-Review Process to Stimulate Classroom Discussion, Bryan Zeitler (Molecular and Cell Biology)
Social Sciences
- Research Methods Applied to Public Health Topics: Using Breakout Groups to Foster Problem Solving and Critical Thinking, Jennifer Bensadoun & Alexander Minnis (Epidemiology)
- Increased Class Participation: Accommodating for Diverse Styles and Skills, Elzbieta Benson (Sociology)
- Helping Students Understand Prejudice, Helen Boucher (Psychology)
- Encouraging and Affirming Diverse Forms of Class Participation, Paul Dosh (Political Science)
- Do Our Students Understand the Relevance of What We are Teaching Them?, Natalia Ferretti (Political Science)
- Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries through Drama, Oron Frenkel, (Public Health)
- Developing a Substantive Understanding of the Concepts of Normality and Pathology, David Gard (Psychology)
- Teaching Bourdieu: Observing the Habitus in Sites of Consumption, William Hayes (Sociology)
- It Said What?: Reading Critically for Bias and Point of View, Amy Lerman (Political Science)
- Incorporating Practice into Theory-Based Curriculum, Lyn Paleo (Public Health)
- Bringing Home the Bacon: Navigating the Congressional Budget Process, Kathryn Pearson (Political Science)
- Theory as a Map, Gretchen Purser (Sociology)
- Learning by Doing: Using Simulations to Teach Political Science, David Radwin (Political Science)
- Not Exactly Dick and Jane: Using Children’s Books to Make Theory Accessible, Anne Marie Richard (Education)
- Improving Writing Skills and Alleviating Grading Confusion, Christopher Rider (Business Administration)
- How to 'Show' Sociology in an Academic World of 'Telling', Ana Villa-Lobos (Sociology)
- Practice Matters: The Design and Teaching of an Introductory Clinical Seminar, Christine Zalecki (Psychology)
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