Teaching Tips

A Compendium of Teaching Tips

An excellent resource of teaching tips can be found at the following Berkeley website: http://teaching.berkeley.edu/compendium/

The compendium, written by Barbara Davis at UC Berkeley, is presented as a series of suggestions for improving teaching. It describes more than 200 teaching techniques that faculty members have found to be effective in their courses at the University of California, Berkeley. Taken together, these suggestions cover the major aspects of college and university teaching from planning and preparing courses to presenting material and motivating students to giving and getting feedback on learning.

As noted by Davis in the introduction, the compendium is designed to be a reference tool to help you improve certain aspects of your own teaching; it is not a narrative discourse on teaching meant to be read in a linear fashion. Therefore, it is recommended that you begin by reading the initial menu and skimming the Index in order to locate those sections or particular suggestions of greatest interest to you.