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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- | McKeachie, Wilbert James, 1921-. Teaching tips.
Publisher: Belmont, CA : Wadsworth, c2011Edition: 13th ed.Description: xxv, 388 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0495809292 (pbk.); 9780495809296 (pbk.).Uniform titles: Teaching tips Subject(s): College teaching | First year teachers | TeachingDDC classification: 378.125
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.