TEA Awards: Index by Department

Index to Teaching Effectiveness Award Essays

Architecture

Engaging with Primary Sources and Making Connections to Readings and Lectures, Tania Martin
Teaching Triangulation of Research Methods, Jess Wendover

Astronomy

Kinesthesis in Science: Where Red Rover Meets Quantum Mechanics, Steve Dawson
Undergraduate Astronomy Journal Club, by Louis-Benoit Desroches
TALC: Individualized Assistance through Collaborative Learning, John Johnson
Lessons from a Lesson on Stellar Evolution, Kathryn Peek

Business Administration

Improving Writing Skills and Alleviating Grading Confusion, Christopher Rider

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, by Suzanne Blum
Teaching Alice, by William Dichtel
Improving Laboratory Courses, Nicholas L. Pivonka
Chemistry: The Other Foreign Language, Joel Thornton

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Strategies to Provide Information Without Providing Answers, Christie Dowling

Classics

A New Way to Appreciate Cicero's Style, Yelena Baraz
Reciting Latin Verse, Edan Dekel

Comparative Literature

Nonstandard Approaches to Post-modernist Literature, Kate Elkins
An Epic in Miniature: Collaborations on a Thesis, Lael Gold
Is Ariel the Same as the Little Mermaid?, Selby Schwartz
Experiments in Communicative Latin, William Short

Computer Science

The Zen of Reductions (How to Understand Computers by Becoming One), Ajeet Shankar

Education

Not Exactly Dick and Jane: Using Children's Books to Make Theory Accessible, Anne Marie Richard

English

Monstrous Texts: Overcoming Resistance to Literature, Mai-Lin Cheng
The Renaissance Lyric Poem as Pop Culture, Kimberly Johnson
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask the Saturday Evening Post: or, How Literature is Like Math, by Mayumi Takada
From Description to Analysis, Andrea Zemgulys

Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Development of an Inquiry-Based Activity from a Content Intensive Curriculum, Amanda Heddle
Social Science Meets Physical Science, by Jessica Owley

Epidemiology

Research Methods Applied to Public Health Topics: Using Breakout Groups to Foster Problem Solving and Critical Thinking, Jennifer Bensadoun & Alexander Minnis

Ethnic Studies

A New Approach to Teaching and Learning, Timothy Randazzo

Film Studies

Writers into Readers, Charles Scott Combs

French

Hands-on Experience of French Irony, Connie Anderson
Giving a New Tune to Grammar, by Hélène Bilis

German

Putting the Text Back in Text Book, Chantelle Warner

History

Teaching History Students to Read Between the Lines, Lisa Kaborycha
Journals: The Key to Small Group Participation, Heather McCarty
The Undergraduate Research Paper, Karen McNeill
Creating Coherence with Conceptual Maps, Edith Replogle Sheffer
The Campus as Laboratory: Teaching Students to Think Historically About the Built Environment, by William Scott

History of Art

Making a Connection to the Distant Past, by Catherine Becker
Teaching Roman Monuments, by Kimberly Cassibry

Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Think Out of the Box, Gaurav Punj

Integrative Biology

Teaching an Uncommon Sense, Sarah Cunningham
Teaching to Different Modes of Learning, Alexander Kauffman
An Example of the Use of Frameworks in Skills-Based Learning, Terry O'Brien
Groupwritten, Meredith Thomsen
How to Encourage Lecture Attendance through Discussion Activities, by Mathew Wedel

Latin American Studies

The Challenge of Thinking Historically, Alejandro Reyes Arias

Mathematics & Statistics

Mathematics: The Universal Language of Science, Antar Bandyopadhyay
When Wrong is All Right, Gautam Borooah
The Meaning Behind the Symbols, Aubrey Clayton
Breaking the Mathematical Language Barrier, Alexander Diesl
Demystifying the Thought Process, Viswanath Sankaran

Mechanical Engineering

Teaching My Students to Fish, A.S. (Ed) Cheng
Incorporating Design-for-Environment into the Undergraduate Product Design Curriculum, Eric Masanet

Molecular and Cell Biology

Science Education: Focus on Core Analytical Skills, James Endres
Transforming Quizzes into Teaching and Learning Tools, Jennifer Powell
Players in the Pathway, Susan Schwab (Molecular and Cell Biology)
Emphasizing Concepts in a Yeast Genetics Laboratory, Elizabeth Shank
Linking Theory and Experiement in a Biochemistry Lab, Giulietta Spudich
Using the Peer-Review Process to Stimulate Classroom Discussion, Bryan Zeitler

Music

Musical Form and Active Learning, Laura Basini
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
Bringing Opera Closer to Home, Michael Markham
Music and Multi Media: Staging Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, by Anna Nisnevich
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
Musical Representation and Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Holly Watkins

Near Eastern Studies

Understanding the Lives of Ancient Egyptians, Deanna Kiser
Revitalizing & Contemporizing Ancient Literature, Heidi Saleh

Physics

Getting in Touch with Your Inner Physicist, Badr Albanna

Plant and Microbial Biology

Slimemolds vs. the MCATs, J. Peter Coppinger
Designing a Better Laboratory Course, Richard Keith Slotkin

Political Science

Encouraging and Affirming Diverse Forms of Class Participation, Paul Dosh
Do Our Students Understand the Relevance of What We are Teaching Them?, Natalia Ferretti
It Said What?: Reading Critically for Bias and Point of View, Amy Lerman
Bringing Home the Bacon: Navigating the Congressional Budget Process, Kathryn Pearson
Learning by Doing: Using Simulations to Teach Political Science, by David Radwin

Psychology

Helping Students Understand Prejudice, Helen Boucher
Developing a Substantive Understanding of the Concepts of Normality and Pathology, David Gard
Practice Matters: The Design and Teaching of an Introductory Clinical Seminar, Christine Zalecki

Public Health

Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries through Drama, Oron Frenkel
Incorporating Practice into Theory-Based Curriculum, Lyn Paleo

Rhetoric

Becoming a Better Socrates, Benjamin Yost

Slavic Languages and Literatures

Writing an Epistolary Novel in a Heritage Speaker Class, by Victoria Somoff

Sociology

Increased Class Participation: Accommodating for Diverse Styles and Skills, by Elzbieta Benson
Teaching Bourdieu: Observing the Habitus in Sites of Consumption, William Hayes
Theory as a Map, Gretchen Purser
How to 'Show' Sociology in an Academic World of 'Telling', Ana Villa-Lobos

South and South East Asian Studies

Re-Membering Our Histories, Re-Visioning Our Histories, Re-Writing Our Selves, Huma Dar
"Telling" Tales: The Quest for Meaning in Indian Folklore, Vasudha Paramasivan

Spanish & Portuguese

Charting the Plot of 'La Noche Boca Arriba', Mary Becker Quinn

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Index to Teaching Effectiveness Award Essays

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