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Francis Su delivered this address as the MAA Haimo Teaching Award Lecture. In it, he talks about the role which grace plays in teaching.

Interesting thoughts in this article (and in the comments section!) about how we present ourselves in the classroom. I was taken by the suggestion that trying on new teaching styles ought to require a serious reflection on what we're good at (or not yet good at) as teachers. Thoughts about the "teaching persona" over time, and across different classes, also seem important.

An interesting set of prompts to help you consider publishing scholarship about your teaching. I'd like to highlight the first sentence of Step 5 - "a primary rule of (the scholarship of teaching and learning) is to use your discipline-based methods first." Don't use your preconceived notions of what education literature looks like, but consider how your study might use your disciplinary ways of knowing.

Tips on effectively framing your scholarly work on teaching and learning as scholarship and not just "extra-good" teaching.

Structured reflection with a trustworthy friend is a great way to improve your teaching, and can make it easier to conduct a project in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL).

Tremendous example of reflective teaching and course design, as the hosts of the Tea for Teaching podcast reflect on their fall experiences teaching online courses with significant synchronous elements. This would be great listening as we think about the design of spring courses.

This article includes an interesting discussion guide which can help faculty members articulate their philosophies of teaching and consider the impact of philosophy on practice.

This chapter from a University of Virginia handbook gives specific suggestions which can make the classroom more welcoming to people from all backgrounds. Some of the "suggestions" look more like probing questions for reflecting on your own teaching - which is also a good thing! Also available as a PDF at http://trc.virginia.edu/resources/420-2/teaching-a-diverse-student-body-handbook/

Good context for examining the ways that simplistic claims can hinder, rather than foster, evidence-based approaches to teaching and learning.

These tips and techniques would benefit any breakout activity, but in online teaching this kind of structure will be crucial.

A listing of conferences with significant focus teaching and learning, from Elon University.

Patrick Jackson uses a "flipped classroom" model to force himself to not lecture, and instead focus intro-level students on the core skills of historical analysis. From the GLCA Center for Teaching and Learning.

"...how are we supposed to prepare students to be lifelong learners if we don't teach them how to embrace imperfection?" And by "teach them", the authors mean "model for them."

"Both fishing and teaching are unsolvable puzzles." Are there lessons you can bring to teaching from your hobbies?

Wikipedia provides great opportunities for students to learn about the construction of knowledge while contributing to it by analyzing and writing for the online encyclopedia. Written by a very active contributor to Wikipedia and the scholarship surround its development ,this article provides a very useful and concise introduction for anybody interested in teaching with Wikipedia.

Interesting report on social media use by professors for teaching (and research / professional development). Faculty members use social media personally, including among their professional colleagues, much like the general population does. Classroom use is still slowed by privacy concerns, relating to both the student-teacher relationship and the classroom's privacy from the rest of the world. How would you answer their questions? Issued in 2013 by Pearson Learning Solutions.

An amusing interview with Stephen King about his techniques for teaching writing when he was a high school teacher.

I was pretty impressed by this podcast host's willingness to share her fears about her teaching, and the specific productivity tips which help her deal with them.

"The larger the island of knowledge grows, the longer the shoreline - where knowledge meets ignorance - extends." Some interesting ideas about teaching the limits of our knowledge, as well as established facts and methods.

A list of six recent good books on teaching and learning. These are widely available in OhioLINK, and on the CIP bookcase.