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McKeachie's Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers (College Teaching)
McKeachie's Teaching Tips is a handbook designed to provide helpful strategies for dealing with both the everyday problems of teaching at the university level, and those that pop up in trying to maximize learning for every student. The suggested strategies are supported by research and are grounded in enough theory to enable teachers to adapt them to their own situations. The author does not suggest a "set of recipes" to be followed mechanically, but gives teachers the tools they need to deal with the ever changing dynamics of teaching and learning. - Improved organization and consolidation of chapters allows the text to maintain its handy pocket-size length, while incorporating new information.
- Guest-authored chapters offer advice and instruction from renowned educators, including Peter Elbow and Mary Deane Sorcinelli on writing, Jane Halonen on laboratory instruction (Chapter 20), and Marilla Svinicki on being a teacher (Chapter 27).
- Up-to-date technology coverage, (Chapter 18) includes issues such as the use of PowerPoint slides, plagiarism, and effective web research.
- Additional current coverage includes experimental learning, recent policy shifts, diversity and gender issues, and standards and accountability.
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Price: $30.82
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Learning and Motiviation in the Postsecondary Classroom (JB - Anker Series)
While the annals of educational psychology and scholarship of learning theory are vast, this book distills the most important material that the higher education faculty need, translating it into clear language, and rendering from it examples that can be readily applied in the college classroom. Understanding theory can enrich one’s own teaching by increasing efficiency and effectiveness of both the instructor and the student, promoting creativity, encouraging self-reflection and professional development, and advancing classroom research. Finally, a good grounding in theory can help faculty navigate when a student is having difficulty. This clearly written book outlines the learning theories: cognitive, concept learning, social learning, and constructivist, as well as the motivation theories: expectancy value, attribution, achievement goal orientation, and self-determination. It then delves deeper into each one, showing how to develop rich, meaningful instruction so that students master basic information and move into deeper levels of learning..
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Teaching and Learning On the Edge of the Millennium: Building On What We Have Learned: New Directions for Teaching and Learning (J-B TL Single Issue Teaching and Learning)
In honor of the new century and the twentieth anniversary of New Directions for Teaching and Learning, this issue reviews the past and current research on teaching, learning, and motivation, and envisions where the field is headed in the next century. Chapters revisit the topics from the best-selling NDTL issues, offering the latest developments in group-based learning, effective communication, teaching for critical thinking, the seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education, teaching for diversity, and teaching in the information age. This is the 80th issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Teaching and Learning ..
Price: $21.90
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Alternative Strategies for Evaluating Student Learning: New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 100, Winter 2004
Although new forms of learning call for new forms of assessment, many faculty struggle to find different ways of testing their students’ achievements This issue introduces readers to both theory and practical examples of innovations in assessment in the college classroom. Examples include authentic testing, testing with multimedia, portfolios, visual synthesis, and performance-based testing, among others. Contributors also argue that student performance on exams can be improved by techniques that can be implemented both before and after the exam to make the students better learners. This is the 100th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series New Directions for Teaching and Learning..
Price: $18.95
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Honoring Exemplary Teaching: New Directions for Teaching and Learning (J-B TL Single Issue Teaching and Learning)
Many colleges and universities are attempting to increase the recognition they give to those faculty who go beyond mere competence and truly represent the best teaching higher education has to offer. What is the promise of programs to honor exemplary teaching? What pitfalls must they avoid? This issue of New Directions for Teaching and Learning describes programs in a variety of settings and with varying purposes. It reviews research relevant to selection criteria, and it offers guidelines for planning and implementing the kinds of programs most likely to be effective. This is the 65th issue of the journal New Directions for Teaching and Learning. .
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