All students have had hundreds of teachers in their lifetimes. A very few of these teachers they remember as being exceptionally good. What are the qualities that combine to create an excellent, memorable teacher? Why do some teachers inspire students to work three times harder than they normally would, while others inspire students to skip class? Why do students learn more from some teachers than others? Check out these "Good Teaching" resources. If you have a "Good Teaching" resource or find a "Good Teaching" website please contact Jerry Cerny, Faculty Development Coordinator, at 845-9215 or [email protected] and he will post it here.

1. Honolulu Community College Faculty Development Teaching Tip Index
   List of teaching resource topics that can help you in you teaching duties.
2. Teaching for Success - HCC Membership Required
   This is a membership-based online Faculty Success Center. The unique E-library houses more than 1000 pages of practical development resources organized in 12 easy-to-use categories - from concise resources such as the Smart Phone Mini Tips, Quick Tip Slide Stacks, Quick Answers and Quick Tools to the more in-depth and interactive learning aids such as the Quick Courses and Quick Studies to the e-book-sized "Solutionary."
3. Faculty Focus - 2011 Part 1
   As another year draws to a close, the editorial team at Faculty Focus looks back on some of the top articles of the past year. Throughout 2011, we published nearly 250 articles. The articles covered a wide range of topics - from academic integrity to online course design. In a two-part series we're revealing the top 11 articles for 2011. Each article's popularity ranking is based on a combination of the number of comments and shares, e-newsletter open and click-thru rates, and other reader engagement metrics. Check out articles number 11 - 6.
4. Faculty Focus - 2011 Part 2
   It wouldn't be the end of the year without a few top 10 lists, but this year we're taking it one step further with the top 11 articles of 2011. Check out articles number 5 - 1.
5. Good Teaching: The Top Ten Requirements
   By Richard Leblanc, York University, Ontario This article appeared in The Teaching Professor after Professor Leblanc won a Seymous Schulich Award for Teaching Excellence including a $10,000 cash award.
6. What Makes A Good Teacher?
   I've spent a lot of time thinking about the craft and practice of teaching, as separate from course content, age of students, size of class, or institutional setting. Everywhere I go, I meet exemplary teachers, and I've been interested in figuring out what makes them so good.
7. Effective vs Ineffective Teacher
   People often remember more about how a subject is taught than the teacher's knowledge of the subject. Check out these lists of effective and ineffective qualities of teachers from a 1986 survey of 12,000 adults.
8. Motivating Students
   Some students seem naturally enthusiastic about learning, but many need-or expect-their instructors to inspire, challenge, and stimulate them: "Effective learning in the classroom depends on the teacher's ability ... to maintain the interest that brought students to the course in the first place." Whatever level of motivation your students bring to the classroom will be transformed, for better or worse, by what happens in that classroom.
9. Seven Qualities of Highly Effective Teachers
   By themselves, these seven qualities may not be sufficient conditions for teaching excellence, but they may be pretty close to essential.
10. Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education
    Apathetic students, illiterate graduates, incompetent teaching, impersonal campuses -- so rolls the drumfire of criticism of higher education. More than two years of reports have spelled out the problems. States have been quick to respond by holding out carrots and beating with sticks. There are neither enough carrots nor enough sticks to improve undergraduate education without the commitment and action of students and faculty members. They are the precious resources on whom the improvement of undergraduate education depends.But how can students and faculty members improve undergraduate education? Many campuses around the country are asking this question. To provide a focus for their work, we offer seven principles based on research on good teaching and learning in colleges and universities.
11. Things you can do during the first part of a semester to get things going right
    Beginnings are important. Whether the class is a large introductory course for freshmen or an advanced course in the major field, it makes good sense to start the semester off well. Students will decide very early - some say the first day of class; some say the first 10 minutes of the first day of class - whether they will like the course, its contents, the teacher, and their fellow students.
12. The Practice of Teaching
    Teaching is a profession, just as law and medicine are professions. Should we not, then, speak of "the practice of teaching"? And should not we teachers actually engage in practice?
13. Confessions of a Closet Thespian
    Lessons learned from life upon the wicked stage can enhance teaching effectiveness even if you're not quite ready for prime time.
14. Coaching Mathematics and other Academic Sports
    My Colleagues in music, drams and athletics did not just teach - they coached. I learned many useful concepts about my instructional role from them. It was one on those gorgeous autumn afternoons: a deep October blue sky contrasted with the brilliant golds and crimsons of the trees, the dazzle of the sun moderated the crispness of the air, and the spirit of the Homecoming crowd brought the stadium to vibrant life. It was a perfect day for football - and hardly the time or the place to be meditating about teaching. But that's where I first began to wonder - to wonder why the football coach seemed to have so much more success with his teams than I had with my mathematics class. A strange though it was.
15. The Random Thoughts of Louis Schmier
    Louis Schmier is a Professor of History at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia. He is an inspirational teacher and philosopher. His Random Thoughts have been appearing on the Internet in educational listservs since April of 1993. Although he teaches at a University, his comments about teaching, his students, and life in general apply to all levels of education. Read a couple of the "favorites", or browse through over 600 in The Complete Random Thoughts. Be prepared to laugh, cry, become outraged, and get inspired.
16. Good Teaching
    I'd like to talk briefly about good teaching. I fear doing this, knowing well how fine teachers differ as their characters and styles differ. Idiosyncrasy is a virtue to the extent that successful teaching rests on character - and I believe it heavily rests there. By describing a generalized view of good teaching, I may unintentionally signal to you an intolerance of idiosyncrasy. I do not with to do so. I am also concerned that I may give the impression that I thing teaching per se is important. Of course, it isn't; what is only important is what the students learn. By speaking of teaching, I hope I won't muddy the truism that our actions as instructors are a means to an end - a pupil's knowledge - rather than an end in themselves.
17. Educational Encyclopedia
    The StateUniversity.com Education Encyclopedia is a resource for professional educators as well as students in an education program. The encyclopedia features hundreds of carefully-researched articles about educational methods, best practices, and controversial issues in higher education.
18. Adjunct Assistance.com
    ajunctassistance.com is dedicated to helping college adjunct instructors succeed. In this blog, I will be sharing two types of information. I will offer advice for improving your skills and effectiveness as a college instructor; and I will provide tips for, putting it quite bluntly, staying out of trouble. While primarily aimed at college adjuncts, my hope is that other administrators will find my postings helpful and contribute their own "lessons learned" for the benefit of all.
19. 10 Rules of Teaching in this Century
    We've been predicting a technology revolution for decades, and actually, it happened 5 years ago. We are now past the tipping point. Suddenly, we find that higher education no longer has a corner on knowledge-making and distribution. But on the bright side, the entire culture is learning-resource rich, technology has a more human face, and education has become more critical than ever.