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