Ideas that work in college teaching / edited by Robert L. Badger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Badger, Robert L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teaching.

Physical Description:

xiv, 172 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2008]

Summary:

As members of the faculty of the same college, the State University of New York at Potsdam, the fifteen contributors to this book have the unique experience of working from the same pool of students in order to explore how to improve teaching, enhance learning, and make the classroom more interesting. Together professors from thirteen different disciplines - art, biology, computer science, education, geology, history, math, modern languages, philosophy, physics, politics, psychology, and sociology - discuss their varied approaches to teaching. They offer ideas and philosophies that have been tried and have been successful and discover that nothing works for all students, but nearly everything works for at least a few.

Contents:

There is no such thing as a dumb student, but how can I help them do better? / Joel Foisy

Service learning in sociology: replacing hopelessness with efficacy / Heather Sullivan-Catlin

Shaking the city's walls: teaching politics with Bruce Springsteen / John Massaro

Border crossing in the north country: an academic story / Liliana Trevizán

Group projects in computer science / Peter S. Brouwer

Combining art studio and art history to engage today's students / Caroline Downing

You can teach a rock new tricks / Robert L. Badger

Blinded by the light: a reflection on the teaching of introductory courses in philosophy / David Curry

Through the comfort zone or just one more go at college teaching / Oscar Sarmiento

From the traditional lecture towards dialogical learning: changing patterns in the teaching of history / Ronald Woodbury

Preparing teachers to use technology in the elementary mathematics classroom / Sergei Abramovich

At home in the universe / Lawrence P. Brehm

Psi fi: learning psychology through active engagement in science fiction / William E. Herman

Putting action in theory: a liberating experiental education / Peg Wesselink

Play to learn / Walter J. Conley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791472194

0791472191

9780791472200

0791472205

OCLC:

85833277