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Summary:

From the Publisher: This indispensable handbook provides helpful strategies for dealing with both the everyday challenges of university teaching and those that arise in efforts to maximize learning for every student. The suggested strategies are supported by research and adaptable to specific classroom situations. Rather than suggest a "set of recipes" to be followed mechanically, the book gives instructors the tools they need to deal with the ever-changing dynamics of teaching and learning.

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
• Good designs for written feedback for students
• The ABCs 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!)
• Active learning : group-based learning
• Experiential learning : case-based, problem-based, and reality-based
• Using high-stakes and low-stakes writing to enhance learning
• Technology and teaching
• Teaching large classes (you can still get active learning!)
• Laboratory instruction : ensuring an active learning experience
• Teaching students how to become more strategic and self-regulated learners

• Teaching thinking
• The ethics of teaching and the teaching of ethics
• Vitality and growth throughout your teaching career.

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Author/Creator:

Svinicki, Marilla D., 1946-

Contributors:

McKeachie, Wilbert James, 1921-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Teaching tips [by Svinicki, M.D.]

Related Works:

Teaching tips [by McKeachie, W.J.]

Subjects:

College teaching

First year teachers

Teaching

General Notes:

Rev. ed. of: McKeachie's teaching tips / Wilbert J. McKeachie. c2006.
Author's names reversed on previous edition.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 346-373) and index.

Physical Description:

xxv, 388 pages ; 21 cm

Call Numbers:

LB2331 .M394 2011

ISBNs:

0495809292
9780495809296
9780495812340 (pbk.)
049581234X (pbk.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2009934814

OCLC Numbers:

496238214