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Summary:

"Energize your classrooms with these key techniques for college teachingStudents say the best teachers get them excited about learning, stretch their thinking, and keep them actively involved in class. But with increasingly diverse classrooms and constantly changing technology, each semester throws up new challenges for engaging students.Discover how to keep your teaching, and your students, energized with The Skillful Teacher, a practical guide to effective techniques, approaches, and methods for today's college classrooms. Providing insights, reflections, and advice from his four decades of college teaching, Stephen Brookfield now adapts his successful methods to teaching online, working with diverse student populations, and making classrooms truly inclusive. As well as being completely revised, updated, and rewritten, this edition adds six brand new chapters on: Teaching critical thinking Using play and creativity in the classroom Teaching in teams Helping students take responsibility for learning Teaching about racism Exercising teacher power responsibly Readers will delve into what learning feels like from a student's perspective, as well as absorb the wisdom of veteran college faculty with whom the author has worked. Themes from the bestselling previous editions remain, but are revisited and expanded with the perspective of an additional decade in the classroom. This authoritative guide is now even more comprehensive to better serve teachers looking to improve. Whether you are new to the classroom or are looking to rise to new challenges, The Skillful Teacher will provide answers, expand your repertoire of techniques, and invigorate your teaching and your classrooms"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Experiencing teaching
• The core assumptions of skillful teaching
• Understanding our classrooms
• What students value in teachers
• Understanding and responding to classroom emotions
• Lecturing creatively
• Using discussion methods
• Teaching in diverse classrooms
• Teaching about racism
• Using imagination, play, and creativity
• Teaching in teams
• Teaching students to think critically
• Teaching online
• Giving helpful evaluations
• Helping students take responsibility for learning
• Understanding students' resistance to learning
• Responding to students' resistance to learning
• Exercising teacher power responsibly
• Negotiating the politics of teaching
• Staying sane : 16 maxims of skillful teaching.

Author/Creator:

Brookfield, Stephen

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The skillful teacher: on technique, trust, and responsiveness in the classroom [by Brookfield, S.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Skillful teacher [by Brookfield, S.] (Third edition; San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, 2015 — ISBN 9781119019879; LCCN 2014049644)

Related Series:

Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series

Subjects:

College teaching

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

LB2331 .B68 2015eb

ISBNs:

9781119019879
1119019877
9781118450291 [Invalid]
1118450299 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

898750362

Other Control Numbers:

EBC1895929 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12288910