Just to give you a sense of what TΦ101 is about, here are some random facts or suggestions that you will find, in no particular order.

• Why students don't talk in class (and what to do about it).
• Syllabi with materials on philosophy and diversity.
• A list of over 1,000 short-answer questions for intro philosophy tests.
• Strategies for teaching  “Generation Y” students (born between 1980 --2002).
• Help with learning students’ names.
• Some great YouTube clips, including talks by a lot of famous philosophers and a totally goofy song about Locke and Berkeley.
• Goals for the first day of class.
• A site with dozens of films with philosophical content (plus study guides).
• Why you need to understand copyright law before distributing copies of anything published after 1923 (hint: it's because of Mickey Mouse’s 1928 debut in Steamboat Willie).
• Links to over a dozen teaching center websites, crammed with useful information.
• Jonathan Bennett’s Early Modern Texts; (free modern translations of dozens of early modern texts -- easier to read, but controversial).
• Why when grading exam questions, you should always put a mark to show where the student’s answer stops.
• An on-line table of contents for articles in Teaching Philosophy.
• A short guide to your legal obligations as a teacher (including what you can and can’t say to parents and in recommendation letters).
• Using “clickers” to teach large lecture sections.
• Why, if you want students to read your comment on papers you shouldn't put the grade on the paper itself.
• Quite a few sets of rubrics for various things, including a rubric for grading class participation.
• Thoughts about how to get students to read difficult philosophy texts.
• A link for Spanish translations of Descartes and Plato (may be helpful for Spanish speaking students).
• A handy policy for dealing with student questions about grades.
• A remarkably useful grade-calculator, developed by clever Berkeley grad student Daniel Immerwahr, son of  TΦ101 creator John Immerwahr.  Does interest in pedagogy run in the family?