Enhancing Education from Carnegie Mellon

This site is so lovely.  It is from the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence at Carnegie Mellon, which sounds very posh, and looks posh too (maybe it's because of the money).  Anyway, it's something of an eligible bachelor, because it not only has looks and money, but substance too.  For instance, if you're feeling panicky because you have a problem with your class, try their Solve a Teaching Problem section - identify your problem from a long list (let's say, the perennially popular 'Students can't write'), and they give you some suggestions on possible underlying reasons:

Students lack critical background skills.

Students lack discipline-specific writing skills.

Students have misconceptions about what writing involves.

Students are encountering linguistic and cultural obstacles to writing.

Students may be intimidated by writing and lack confidence in their abilities.

Students are unclear about certain parameters of the assignment or do not know how to meet them.

Each then links to a short explanation and several strategies for addressing the problem, such as

Make your expectations clear.
Create “scaffolded” writing assignments.
Model how you approach writing tasks.
Require drafts.
Use performance rubrics.
Emphasize purpose-focused writing.

Sigh.