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Volume VIII - 2000

  1. The Perry Model, Personalism and Beyond - 1
  2. The Perry Model, Stage 1- Dualism Encounters the Serpent
  3. The Perry Model, Stage 2 - Multiplicity - A Bull in the China Shop
  4. The Perry Model, Stages 3 & 4 of Multiplicity—Glimmers of Hope
  5. The Perry Model, Stage 5 Relativism-- Punctuated Change
  6. The Perry Model, Stage 6 - The View from the Springboard
  7. The Perry Model and Commitment--- Stages 7, 8, and 9
  8. Brain-based Learning 1-- Optimal Environments?
  9. Brain-based Learning 2---A Unifying Framework

Volume VII - 1999

  1. Launching a Teaching System: A Higher Level Syllabus - 1
  2. Building a Teaching System:  Teaching in Fractal Patterns - 2
  3. Building a Teaching System:  Defining a Pattern in Content - 3
  4. Building a Teaching System:  Defining a Pattern in Pedagogy - 4
  5. Meeting an Evaluation with a Teaching System
  6. An Example--Teaching to Get Your Desired Outcomes
  7. Four Variables of Developmental Instruction
  8. The Perry Model of Students' Intellectual Development

Volume VI - Developing Teaching Systems - 1998

  1. A Mid-summer "Howdy" with Some Announcements
  2. Are CU-Denver Students "Different?"
  3. Addressing Diverse Learning Needs
  4. The Virtues of VIRTUAL
  5. Flashlight — A Flexible Feedback Tool
  6. What's "Boot Camp...?"
  7. Learning Students' Names
  8. Developing a Teaching System - Prelude
  9. Developing a Teaching System - 2
  10. Developing a Teaching System - 3
  11. Developing a Teaching System:  Alignment - 4
  12. Developing a Teaching System:  Alignment and a System - 5

Volume V - Student Assessments - 1997

  1. Assessment of Our Students I—Grading in General
  2. Assessment of Our Students II—Multiple-Choice Tests
  3. Assessment of Students III—Processing Multiple-Choice Tests
  4. Assessment of Our Students IV - Essay Tests
  5. Instructional Technology & *The Seven Principles of Good Practice
  6. The Many Uses of E-Mail
  7. Winning WEB Sites Used by UCD Instructors
  8. Integrating Teaching and Service at the New Urban University

Volume IV - Visual Aids - 1996

  1. Visual Aids for Class Handouts and Presentations - 3: Color Overheads
  2. Visual Aids for Class Handouts and Presentations - 4: Videotapes
  3. Visual Aids for Class Handouts and Presentations - 5: 35-mm Slides
  4. Our Teaching Philosophies - Forming Our Centers of Strength
  5. DATE of WORKSHOP: What is the 4MAT System?
  6. The ASSESSMENT Word: What's Involved?
  7. A global view of ASSESSMENT
  8. Getting to DOING Assessment: Ten Principles for Practice

Volume III - 1995

  1. Using YOUR Office of Teaching Effectiveness
  2. Teaching With Writing Part 3: Tips From Toby—
  3. First Steps into the Age of Information Literacy
  4. Keeping Students Informed of Their Progress
  5. FIRST YEAR IN THE CLASSROOM: WHAT SEEMED TO WORK
  6. Considering Alpha and Omega - Relationships Between the Syllabus and Final Grading
  7. Multiple Means of Teaching Evaluation: FCQs and "What Are My Other Options?"
  8. Visual Aids for Class Handouts and Presentations - 1: Word Slides
  9. Visual Aids for Class Handouts and Presentations - 2: Black & White Overheads

Volume II - 1994

  1. Cooperative Learning 3 -- The 5 Basic Elements
  2. The Student Management Team Approach to Class Improvement
  3. Upcoming Workshops on Teaching by Discussion
  4. Our Personalities -- What We Think Matters; What Our Students Think
  5. Classroom Practices -- Which Ones Are Percieved as Importtant by Our Students
  6. Salvaging Benefits From the DEADLIEST Time of thr Year
  7. Bottom-Line Disclosure and Assessment
  8. Teaching Portfolios - I -- Documenting Success and Progress
  9. Teaching Portfolios - II
  10. Some Ways to Teach Content Through Writing - I
  11. Some Ways to Teach Content Through Writing - II
  12. "Volcabulary Across the Curriculum" -- Word of the Day

Volume I - 1993

  1. A New Newsletter -- A New Center!
  2. Building a Better Syllabus
  3. Make a Class Directory with Groups
  4. Avoiding the "Professor Who is Not Available" Reputation
  5. Navigating Your Way Through the Woods
  6. The "One - Minute Paper" -- Making Good Use of the Final Minute of Class
  7. More About Diagnostic Surveys and Consultation
  8. Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education
  9. Cooperative Learning (1)
  10. Cooperative Learning (2)