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McKeachie's teaching tips : strategies, research, and theory for college and university teachers / Marilla Svinicki and Wilbert J. McKeachie ; with chapters by David Nicol ... [et al.].

By: Svinicki, Marilla D, 1946-Contributor(s): McKeachie, Wilbert James, 1921-Material type: TextTextPublication details: Belmont, CA : Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, c2011Edition: 13th edDescription: xxv, 388 p. ; ill. ; 21 cmISBN: 9780495809296 (pbk.); 0495809292 (pbk.)Uniform titles: Teaching tips Subject(s): College teaching | First year teachers | TeachingDDC classification: 371.102 LOC classification: LB2331 | .S95 2011Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Table of contents only
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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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.

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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