UF TA Handbook
Produced by The University of Florida Center for Teaching Excellence in conjunction with The Graduate School
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Acknowledgments
Handbook adaptation, 19th edition
Winifred B. Cooke, Ph.D., Director
CLAS Teaching Center
in conjunction with The Graduate School
University of Florida
Handbook contributors
The original Teaching at the University of Florida was adapted from the Teaching Handbook Template produced at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts and made available for adaptation under a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Post-secondary Education (F.I.P.S.E. Project No. 116-CH700-10; Project Director, Michael Theall, Ph.D.). Much of the information the handbook contains has been compiled from the handbooks of a number of colleges and universities around the country. Adaptations are credited in the text according to the following system. When “Adapted from…” appears just after the title of a section, it indicates that the section was adapted from that source. When “(Adapted from…)” appears within the text of a section, it indicates that the preceding paragraph was adapted from that source. Later editions follow the same convention. We would like to acknowledge those individuals and institutions who have granted permission for the inclusion of material in Handbook for Teachers with special thanks to Dr. Mina Ghattas.
Judith G. Bailey
Center for Teaching Effectiveness
University of Delaware, Newark
William Cashin
Center for Faculty Evaluation and Development
Kansas State University
Richard Curry
Graduate School Instructional Development Program
University of Nevada, Reno
Jennifer Franklin
Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation
Northeastern University, Boston
Thomas Gething
Associate Dean, Graduate Division
University of Hawaii, Manoa
Graduate Assistants Teaching Program
University of California, Berkeley
Jody Nyquist
Center for Instructional Development and Research
University of Washington, Seattle
Pat Rogers
Centre for the Support of Teaching
York University, North York, Ontario
Shirley Ronkowski
Office of Instructional Consultation
University of California, Santa Barbara
David Unruh
Office of Instructional Development
University of California, Los Angeles
Barbara Wickersham
Learning Resources Center
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
George Yonge
Graduate Division
University of California, Davis
“The ultimate test of your classroom abilities may well be not how much you have taught, but how much you have learned and the degree to which your students have learned to learn.”
Roland Christensen from
The Art and Craft of Teaching