A Few Useful Instructional Development Materials Instructional Development has a small resource centre containing a number of books, monographs, articles, audiotapes and videotapes on various topics related to teaching. Faculty and teaching assistants are encouraged to consult the resource centre in order to improve their teaching or just to find new ideas for their classes. A list of all the resource materials in the Resource Centre is available online as well as in hard copy format and you should feel free to consult it. The resource centre is housed in room 3A3 of the Arts Building.
Some materials are likely to be more useful than others.
With that in mind, the following short annotated list of a few of the best and most recent materials in the resource centre has been compiled. These materials may be borrowed by contacting Nickie Hurkens-Huff at extension 3507. Many instructors argue that a course syllabus is the most important single document provided to students in each course. The authors believe that a syllabus serves as a planning device to organize the course and to provide students with information about course content, the faculty member's expectations, the methods of instruction and evaluation, and the overall rationale for the course. The booklet is short and to the point, and faculty can use the checklist as a resource when preparing their syllabi.