McKeachie's teaching tips : strategies, research and theory for college and university teachers / Wilbert J. McKeachie

By: McKeachie, Wilbert J [author]
Publisher: Quezon City : Busy Book, 1999Edition: Tenth editionDescription: xx, 379 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9814040533Subject(s): Teaching | Classroom management | Teaching -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. | College Teaching | Teachers-TrainingDDC classification: 371.102
Contents:
pt. 1. Getting started: ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Countdown for course preparation -- ch. 3. Planning your students' learning activities -- ch. 4. Meeting a class for the first time -- pt. 2. Basic skills for facilitating student learning -- ch. 5. Facilitating discussion: posing problems, listening, questioning -- ch. 6. Lecturing -- ch. 7. Testing and assessing learning: assigning grades is not the most important function -- ch. 8. What to do about cheating -- ch. 9. ABC's of assigning grades -- pt. 3. Adding to your repertoire of skills and strategies for facilitating student learning: ch. 10. Teaching students to learn through writing: papers, journals, and reports -- ch. 11. Teaching students how to learn more from textbooks and other reading -- ch. 12. Laboratory teaching: teaching students to think like scientists -- ch. 13. Experiential learning: service learning, fieldwork, and collaborative research -- ch. 14. Peer learning, collaborative learning, cooperative learning -- ch. 15. Project methods, independent study, and one-on-one teaching -- ch. 16. Problem-based learning: teaching with cases, simulations, and games -- ch. 17. Using communication and information technologies effectively -- ch. 18. Class size and sectional courses -- ch. 19. Teaching large classes (you can still get active learning) -- pt. 4. Understanding students: ch. 20. Taking student social diversity into account -- ch. 21. Problem students (there's almost always at least one!) -- ch. 22. Counseling and advising -- pt. 5. Lifelong learning for you as well as your students: ch. 23. Appraising and improving your teaching: using students, peers, experts, and classroom research -- ch. 24. Ethics in college teaching -- pt. 6. Teaching for higher-level goals: ch. 25. Motivating students for your course and for lifelong learning -- ch. 26. Teaching students how to learn -- ch. 27. Teaching thinking -- ch. 28. Teaching values: should we? Could we?
Summary: 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.
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Includes index.

pt. 1. Getting started: ch. 1. Introduction --
ch. 2. Countdown for course preparation --
ch. 3. Planning your students' learning activities --
ch. 4. Meeting a class for the first time --
pt. 2. Basic skills for facilitating student learning --
ch. 5. Facilitating discussion: posing problems, listening, questioning --
ch. 6. Lecturing --
ch. 7. Testing and assessing learning: assigning grades is not the most important function --
ch. 8. What to do about cheating --
ch. 9. ABC's of assigning grades --
pt. 3. Adding to your repertoire of skills and strategies for facilitating student learning: ch. 10. Teaching students to learn through writing: papers, journals, and reports --
ch. 11. Teaching students how to learn more from textbooks and other reading --
ch. 12. Laboratory teaching: teaching students to think like scientists --
ch. 13. Experiential learning: service learning, fieldwork, and collaborative research --
ch. 14. Peer learning, collaborative learning, cooperative learning --
ch. 15. Project methods, independent study, and one-on-one teaching --
ch. 16. Problem-based learning: teaching with cases, simulations, and games --
ch. 17. Using communication and information technologies effectively --
ch. 18. Class size and sectional courses --
ch. 19. Teaching large classes (you can still get active learning) --
pt. 4. Understanding students: ch. 20. Taking student social diversity into account --
ch. 21. Problem students (there's almost always at least one!) --
ch. 22. Counseling and advising --
pt. 5. Lifelong learning for you as well as your students: ch. 23. Appraising and improving your teaching: using students, peers, experts, and classroom research --
ch. 24. Ethics in college teaching --
pt. 6. Teaching for higher-level goals: ch. 25. Motivating students for your course and for lifelong learning --
ch. 26. Teaching students how to learn --
ch. 27. Teaching thinking --
ch. 28. Teaching values: should we? Could we?

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.

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