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McKeachie's teaching tips : strategies, research, and theory for college and university teachers / Wilbert J. McKeachie ; with chapters by Barbara Hofer ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKeachie, Wilbert James, 1921-2019.
- Standardized Title:
- Teaching tips
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- College teaching.
- First year teachers.
- Teaching.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 371 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Eleventh edition.
- Other Title:
- Teaching tips
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., [2002]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Countdown for course preparation
- Meeting a class for the first time
- Facilitating discussion : posing problems, listening, questioning
- How to make lectures more effective
- Assessing, testing, and evaluating : grading is not the most important function
- What to do about cheating
- The ABC's of assigning grades
- Motivation in the college classroom
- Valuing student differences
- Problem students (there's almost always at least one!)
- Counseling, advising, and educating
- Teaching students to learn through writing : journals, papers, and reports
- Reading as active learning
- Active learning : cooperative, collaborative, and peer learning
- Problem-based learning : teaching with cases, simulations, and games
- Technology and teaching
- Teaching large classes (you can still get active learning!)
- Laboratory instruction : ensuring an active learning experience
- Facilitating experiential learning : service learning, fieldwork, and collaborative research
- Using project methods, independent study, and one-on-one teaching
- Teaching by distance education
- Teaching students how to learn
- Teaching thinking
- Teaching values : should we? can we?
- Ethics in college teaching
- Vitality and growth throughout your teaching career.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-355) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 48384137
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