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100 1 $aNilson, Linda Burzotta.
245 10 $aTeaching at its best :$ba research-based resource for college instructors /$cLinda B. Nilson.
250 $a3rd ed.
260 $aSan Francisco, CA :$bJossey-Bass,$c©2010.
300 $axx, 375 pages :$billustrations ;$c28 cm.
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490 1 $aThe Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 335-365) and index.
505 0 $aAuthor -- Preface -- Part 1: Laying The Groundwork For Student Learning -- 1: Understanding your students and how they learn -- Your undergraduate student body profile -- How people learn -- How structure increases learning -- Cognitive development of undergraduates -- Encouraging cognitive growth teaching the millennial generation -- Adult learner -- Inclusive instructing -- Challenge -- 2: Outcomes-centered course design -- Why outcomes-centered course design? -- Writing outcomes -- Types of learning outcomes -- Types of cognitive outcomes -- Designing the learning process -- Helpful frameworks for designing a course -- Showing students their learning process -- Outcomes-centered course development -- 3: Complete syllabus -- Appropriate syllabus items -- Graphic syllabus -- Online "living syllabus" -- Getting students to read your syllabus -- Evolving syllabus -- 4: Your first day of class -- Before the first class -- First impressions -- Exchanging information -- Social icebreakers: getting to know you -- Subject matter icebreakers -- Drawing class to a close -- 5: Motivating your students -- What we know about motivation in learning -- Credible theories of motivation -- Strategies for motivating students -- Equity in the classroom -- Part 2: Managing Your Courses -- 6: Copyright guidelines for instructors -- Where copyright does and does not apply -- Common copyright misconceptions -- Free use: fair use, facts, and public domain -- Printed text -- Visual materials -- In-class performances -- Recording broadcast programming -- Online/electronic materials and distance learning -- Obtaining permission or a license -- How copyright violations are actually handled -- For further and future reference -- 7: Preventing and responding to classroom incivility -- What is incivility? -- Why the increase? -- Preventing incivility: your classroom persona -- Responding to incivility -- Seeking assistance -- 8: Preserving academic integrity -- How prevalent is cheating? -- Who cheats, and why? -- Detecting cheating -- Preventing cheating -- Honor codes -- Changing student values -- 9: Making the most of office hours -- Getting students to see you -- Making the time productive -- Student-active tutoring -- Students in academic or emotional trouble -- 10: Course coordination between faculty and teaching assistants -- Before the term: course review and role specifications -- During the term: regular meetings and teaching feedback -- Extending managing to mentoring.
505 0 $aPart 3: Choosing And Using The Right Tools For Teaching And Learning -- 11: Matching teaching methods with learning outcomes -- Types of tools -- Dangerous knowledge? -- 12: Making the lecture a learning experience -- Purpose: to lecture or not to lecture? -- Preparing an effective lecture -- Delivering an effective lecture -- Incorporating student-active breaks: the interactive lecture -- Teaching students to take good notes -- Making the lecture effective for everyone -- 13: Leading effective discussions -- When to choose discussion -- How to set the stage for discussion -- How to maximize participation through skillful discussion management -- 14: Questioning techniques for discussion and assessment -- Questioning as a process of inquiry -- Typologies of good discussion questions -- Poor questions for discussion purposes -- Turning the tables -- 15: Experiential learning activities -- Student presentation formats -- Role playing -- Simulations and games -- Service-learning: the real thing -- 16: Learning in groups -- Group by any other name -- Case for group work -- Changing methods, changing roles -- Setup and management of student groups -- Management tips -- Tried-and-true group learning strategies -- Preparing students for life --17: Writing-to-learn activities and assignments -- Freewrites -- One-minute paper -- Journals -- One-sentence summaries -- Learning logs -- Dialectical notes -- Directed paraphrasing -- Letters, memos, notes, and electronic posts -- Mock tests -- Drafts for peer feedback -- Multiple purposes -- Part 4: More Tools: Teaching Real-World Problem Solving -- 18: Inquiry-guided learning -- Definitions of inquiry-guided learning -- Effectiveness of inquiry-guided learning -- Objects and modes of inquiry -- Variations of inquiry-based learning -- 19: Case method -- Effectiveness of the case method -- Appropriate subject matter -- What makes a good case -- Types of cases -- Debriefing cases -- Postscript for pioneers -- 20: Problem-based learning -- How PBL works -- Good PBL problems and where to find them -- Effectiveness of PBL -- What students think -- Kudos for creativity -- 21: Quantitative reasoning and problem solving -- Understanding students' problems with problems -- Modeling expert reasoning -- Teaching the steps of problem solving -- Tutoring students out of bad habits -- Routinizing peer feedback -- Making problems more real and challenging -- Using the power of group learning -- Accommodating new methods to traditional settings -- 22: Problem solving in the sciences -- Where science education falls short -- How to help students learn science: general advice -- How the lecture can be made into a meaningful learning experience -- How the lab can be made into a meaningful learning experience -- Essentials of lab safety and management -- Why science education is so important.
505 0 $aPart 5: Making Learning Easier -- 23: Getting students to do the readings -- Why students don't do the readings -- How we can equip and induce students to do the readings -- Specific tools for holding students accountable -- Managing your workload -- 24: Teaching your students to think and write in your discipline -- Cross-disciplinary commonalities -- Teaching critical thinking through the discipline's metacognitive model -- Metacognitive differences among disciplines -- Making students better thinkers and writers -- Teaching students to write for their futures -- Many worlds of writing -- 25: Accommodating different learning styles -- Kolb's learning styles model and experiential learning theory -- Fleming and Mills's sensory-based learning style typology -- Felder and Silverman's Index of Learning Styles -- Parallels across learning style models -- Multisensory, multimethod teaching: most effective for all -- 26: Using visuals to teach -- Ways that visuals enhance learning -- Types of visuals for learning -- Future of visuals in teaching and learning -- 27: Using instructional technology wisely -- Reliable low-tech tools for the classroom -- Choice of high-tech alternatives -- Learning management systems -- Lecture-related software -- Web resources -- Laptops in the wireless classroom -- Web 2_0 tools -- Looking ahead -- Part 6: Assessing Learning Outcomes -- 28: Assessing student learning in progress -- Classroom assessment techniques -- Formative feedback -- Student portfolios -- Extending classroom assessment to classroom research and the scholarship of teaching and learning -- 29: Constructing summative assessments -- General testing guidelines -- Objective test items -- Constructed response instruments: essay questions and writing assignments -- Tests and assignments: the ultimate teaching evaluations -- 30: Preparing students for tests -- Test preparation measures -- Anxiety-reduction measures -- What the effort is worth -- 31: Grading summative assessments -- Meaning of grades -- Summative assessments and grading systems -- Qualities of a sound grading system -- Grading constructed responses and papers -- Grading lab reports -- How to grade mechanics quickly while ensuring students learn them -- Outcome-based grading -- Returning students' work -- Helping students use your feedback to improve -- Real meaning and limits of grades -- 32: Evaluating and documenting teaching effectiveness -- Defining and measuring teaching effectiveness -- Student evaluations -- Peer, administrative, and self-evaluations -- Documenting your effectiveness -- Comprehensive approaches to faculty evaluation -- Complex beyond measure -- Appendix: Instructional support and resources at your institution -- References -- Index.
520 $aSynopsis: Teaching at Its Best. This third edition of the best-selling handbook offers faculty at all levels an essential toolbox of hundreds of practical teaching techniques, formats, classroom activities, and exercises, all of which can be implemented immediately. This thoroughly revised edition includes the newest portrait of the Millennial student; current research from cognitive psychology; a focus on outcomes maps; the latest legal options on copyright issues; and how to best use new technology including wikis, blogs, podcasts, vodcasts, and clickers. Entirely new chapters include subjects such as matching teaching methods with learning outcomes, inquiry-guided learning, and using visuals to teach, and new sections address Felder and Silverman's Index of Learning Styles, SCALE-UP classrooms, multiple true-false test items, and much more.
590 $bInternet Archive - 2
590 $bInternet Archive 2
650 0 $aCollege teaching.
650 0 $aEffective teaching.
650 7 $aCollege teaching.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00868201
650 7 $aEffective teaching.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00903762
830 0 $aJossey-Bass higher and adult education series.
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