McKeachie's teaching tips : strategies, research, and theory for college and university teachers /
"This best-selling, practical handbook is an invaluable tool for all instructors and for courses in instruction, workshops, and training seminars. McKeachie's Teaching Tips reflects the commitment and care that the authors bring to teaching and to this text." "In the twelfth edit...
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin,
[2006], ©2006
Boston : c2006 Boston : ©2006 |
| Edition: | 12th ed |
| Series: | College teaching series
College teaching series |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Countdown for course preparation
- Meeting a class for the first time
- Reading as active learning
- Facilitating discussion : posing problems, listening, questioning
- How to make lectures more effective
- Assessing, testing, and evaluating : grading is not the most important function
- Testing : the details
- Tests from the students' perspective
- What to do about cheating
- The ABC's of assigning grades
- Motivation in the college classroom
- Teaching culturally diverse students
- Dealing with student problems and problem students (there's almost always at least one!)
- How to enhance learning by using high-stakes and low-stakes writing
- Active learning : cooperative, collaborative, and peer learning
- Problem-based learning : teaching with cases, simulations, and games
- Technology and teaching
- Teaching large classes (you can still get active learning!)
- Laboratory instruction : ensuring an active learning experience
- Teacher's role in experiential learning
- Teaching by distance education
- Teaching students how to become more strategic and self-regulated learners
- Teaching thinking
- Ethics of teaching and the teaching of ethics
- Vitality and growth throughout your teaching career
- Preface
- A special preface for teaching assistants and graduate student instructors
- Part 1. Getting started. Introduction ; Countdown for course preparation ; Meeting a class for the first time
- Part 2. Basic skills for facilitating student learning. Reading as active learning ; Facilitating discussion : posing problems, listening, questioning ; How to make lectures more effective ; Assessing, testing, and evaluating : grading is not the most important function ; Testing : the details ; Tests from the students' perspective ; What to do about cheating ; The ABC's of assigning grades
- Part 3. Understanding students. Motivation in the college classroom / by Barbara K. Hofer ; Teaching culturally diverse students / by Richard M. Suinn ; Dealing with student problems and problem students (there's almost always at least one!)
- Part 4. Adding to your repertoire of skills and strategies for facilitating active learning. How to enhance learning by using high-stakes and low-stakes writing / by Peter Elbow and Mary Deane Sorcinelli ; Active learning : cooperative, collaborative, and peer learning ; Problem-based learning : teaching with cases, simulations, and games ; Technology and teaching / by Erping Zhu and Matthew Kaplan
- Part 5. Skills for use in other teaching situations. Teaching large classes (you can still get active learning!) ; Laboratory instruction : ensuring an active learning experience / by Brian P. Coppola ; The teacher's role in experiential learning / by Richard D. Mann ; Teaching by distance education / by Andrew Northedge
- Part 6. Teaching for higher-level goals. Teaching students how to become more strategic and self-regulated learners / by Claire Ellen Weinstein ; Teaching thinking / by Jane S. Halonen ; The ethics of teaching and the teaching of ethics
- Part 7. Lifelong learning for the teacher. Vitality and growth throughout your teaching career