Teaching what you don't know /
Everyone in academia knows it and no one likes to admit it: faculty often have to teach courses in areas they don't know very well. The challenges are even greater when students don't share your cultural background, lifestyle, or assumptions about how to behave in a classroom. In this prac...
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Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2009
Cambridge, Mass. : 2009 |
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Table of Contents:
- The growing challenge
- Why it's better than it seems
- Getting ready
- Teaching and surviving
- Thinking in class
- Teaching students you don't understand
- Getting better
- Advice for administrators
- 1 Growing Challenge
- 2. Why It's Better Than It Seems
- 3. Getting Ready
- 4. Teaching and Surviving
- 5. Thinking in Class
- 6. Teaching Students You Don't Understand
- 7. Getting Better
- 8. Advice for Administrators.