The McGraw Center publishes a series of teaching tips for instructors throughout the academic year. This series addresses perennial teaching concerns, such as how to engage a large lecture class and what to do when class discussion stalls, as well as tips on advising independent work and mentoring graduate students.

Browse the complete list of The Scholar as Teacher tip-sheets

• Mid-Semester Course Evaluations
• Guiding Undergraduate Independent Work
• Writing Recommendation Letters

The McGraw Center is pleased to make available online Essays on Teaching Excellence, an annual series of short scholarly essays on teaching concerns from avoiding student plagiarism to teaching methods of inquiry.

As the editor of the series writes, “Teaching Excellence presents thoughtful and useful viewpoints from which college teachers can look at their practice of instruction. […]

Written in concise and non-technical language and supported by current research, the essays in Teaching Excellence will assist instructors to reflect upon and refine their practice of teaching to achieve the results they seek — students learning to the best of their abilities.”

• Browse the Essays on Teaching Excellence (Princeton ID required).

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