The Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching has created many products you might find useful when practicing scientific teaching including the Scientific Teaching Digital Library, grading rubrics, and surveys.
Rubrics
A rubric is a tool that provides students the explicit criteria by which their work will be judged. Here, we provide the rubrics for writing a teaching philosophy and developing a Teachable Unit.
The Teachable Unit (TU) is the final product of our Teaching Fellows program. Here is the recommended Framework for a TU.
Asking students to craft a teaching philosophy is an important step in improving classroom instruction. Here is the recommended Teaching Philosophy Teaching Rubric.
Scientific Teaching Digital Library
The Scientific Teaching Digital Library is a compendium of innovative instructional materials that have been designed to engage students in the rigor and spirit of scientific research. These "teachable units" not only include all the information needed to teach a science concept in the classroom, such as handouts and evaluation tools, they also engage students in the learning process, make instruction goals transparent, and focus on student learning. Each unit has been professionally developed, rigorously reviewed, and tested in the classroom.
Surveys
To gauge the effectiveness of our courses, we often use exit surveys. Here are a few examples of surveys we have used in the past.
Baseline survey for Teaching Fellows
Exit survey for Teaching Fellows
Exit survey for Summer Institute
Summer Insitute 1-year survey