McKeachie's teaching tips : strategies, research, and theory for college and university teachers / Marilla D. Svinicki and Wilbert J. McKeachie ; with chapters by David Nicol [and others].
This indispensable handbook provides helpful strategies for dealing with both the everyday challenges of university teaching and those that arise in efforts to maximize learning for every student. The suggested strategies are supported by research and adaptable to specific classroom situations. Rath...
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Belmont, California :
Wadsworth, Cengage Learning,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part 1: Getting Started:
- Introduction:
- College or university culture
- In conclusion
- Countdown For Course Preparation:
- Time: Three months before the first class:
- Identify the student learning goals, or outcomes
- What goals?
- Order textbooks, lab supplies, or other resources students may need
- Time: Two months before the first class:
- Create a syllabus for the course
- Time: One month before the first class:
- Begin preparing class session plans
- Choose appropriate teaching methods
- Select appropriate technology
- Time: Two weeks before the first class:
- Check resources
- Start a portfolio or teaching journal
- Time: One week before the first class
- Supplementary reading
- Meeting a Class For The First Time:
- Setting the stage
- Breaking the ice
- Alleviating anxiety:
- Syllabus and course structure
- Testing, grading, and fairness
- Strategies for succeeding
- Building community:
- Reciprocal interviewing
- Question posting
- Prioritizing class goals
- Assessing prior knowledge
- Questions and reactions
- What about subject matter?
- Supplementary reading
- Part 2: Basic Skills For Facilitating Student Learning:
- Reading As Active Learning:
- Textbooks or texts?
- Research on learning from reading:
- Sample reading strategy students can use
- How do you get the students to read the assigned readings in the first place?:
- Build links to the course as a whole frequently
- Use the readings in class exercises
- Build reading assessment into the grading structure
- Bottom line
- Supplementary reading
- Facilitating Discussion:
- Tasks in teaching by discussion
- Helping students prepare for discussion
- Conducting a discussion: getting started:
- Starting discussion with a common experience
- Starting discussion with a controversy
- Starting discussion with questions
- Starting discussion with a problem or case
- Conducting the discussion: moving things along:
- Listening, responding, and modeling discussion behavior
- Conducting the discussion: common problems:
- Students' reluctance to participate
- Involving nonparticipants
- What about a student who monopolizes?
- What if the students haven't read the material?
- Handling conflicts and arguments
- Conducting the discussion: teaching students to learn through discussion
- Conducting the discussion: minutes, summaries, and drawing to a close
- Student-led discussions
- Online discussions
- In conclusion
- Supplementary reading
- How To Make Lectures More Effective:
- Research on the effectiveness of lectures
- What are lectures good for?
- Planning lectures
- Preparing your lecture notes
- Organization of lectures:
- Introduction
- Body of the lecture
- How can lectures be improved?:
- Attention
- What can be done to maintain attention?
- Teaching students how to be better listeners
- How do students process the content of a lecture?
- Should students take notes?
- In conclusion
- Supplementary reading
- Assessing, Testing, And Evaluating: Grading Is Not The Most Important Function:
- Planning methods of assessment:
- Institutional purposes for your course assessments
- Methods of assessing learning:
- Tests: in and out of class
- Performance assessment (authentic assessment)
- Graphic representations of concepts
- Journals, research papers, and annotated bibliographies
- Portfolios
- Peer assessment
- Assessing group work
- Embedded assessment
- Classroom assessment
- In conclusion
- Supplementary reading
- Testing: The Details:
- When to test
- Constructing the test:
- Choosing the type of question
- How many questions should you use?
- Tests from the student perspective
- Reducing student frustration and aggression
- Helping students become test-wise:
- Taking multiple-choice tests
- Taking essay tests
- Why teach test taking?
- Administering the test
- Alternative testing models gaining favor:
- Group or team-based testing
- Online testing
- What to do about cheating:
- Why do students cheat?
- How do students cheat?
- Preventing cheating
- Handling cheating
- After the test:
- Grading objective tests
- Grading essay questions
- Helping yourself learn from the test
- Returning test papers
- Helping students learn from a test
- Dealing with an aggrieved student
- What do you do about the student who missed the test?
- In conclusion
- Supplementary reading
- Good Designs For Written Feedback For Students:
- Formulation of written feedback comments:
- Understandable, selective, and specific
- Timely
- Nonjudgmental and balanced
- Contextualized
- Forward-looking and transferable
- Fostering feedback dialogues
- Making teacher feedback contingent on learners' needs
- Supplementing teacher feedback with peer feedback:
- Collaborative assignment production
- Peer commenting on assignments
- Learning through peer collaboration and review
- Activating and strengthening inner feedback:
- Harnessing inner feedback: more frequent tasks
- Having students reflect on teacher-provided comments
- Strengthening self-assessment
- In conclusion
- Supplementary reading
- Assigning Grades: What Do They Mean?:
- Do grades provide information useful for decision making?
- Can we trust grades?:
- Validity of the measurement
- Reliability of the scores
- Assigning grades: on a curve or against a standard?
- Reducing student anxiety about grades
- What about the student who wants a grade changed?
- Grades vs learning: some related research
- In conclusion
- Supplementary reading
- Part 3: Understanding Students:
- Motivation In The College Classroom:
- Motivational theories: an overview:
- Autonomy and self-determination
- Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
- Expectancy-value theory
- Mastery and performance goals
- Social motivation and other goals
- Attribution theory
- Motivational power of beliefs about intelligence
- Putting motivation theory into practice
- Supplementary reading
- Teaching Culturally Diverse Students:
- Culture and communication:
- Nonverbal communication
- Verbal communication
- Motivation and stress:
- Cultural differences in motivation
- Cultural stressors
- Increasing motivation
- Dealing with stressors
- Tailoring your teaching methods:
- Offer multiple ways for students to learn
- Be concrete
- Enhance performance measurement
- Choose appropriate nonverbal behaviors
- Be accessible
- In conclusion
- Suggested readings
- Appendix.
- Different Students, Different Challenges:
- Intellectual/academic challenges:
- Argumentative students
- Students who are at different stages of cognitive development
- Students who are underprepared for the course or struggling
- Class management challenges:
- Attention seekers and students who dominate discussions
- Inattentive students
- Students who come to class unprepared
- Students who are uncivil
- Emotional challenges:
- Angry students
- Discouraged, ready-to-give-up students
- Students with emotional reactions to sensitive topics
- Dealing with psychological problems
- Potential suicides
- In conclusion
- Supplementary reading
- Part 4: Adding To Your Repertoire Of Skills And Strategies For Facilitating Active Learning:
- Active Learning: Group-Based Learning:
- Value of active learning itself
- Value of active learning in groups
- Why does peer learning work?
- Group learning: variations on the theme:
- Peer tutoring
- Learning pair: from learning cells to think-pair-share
- Team learning: syndicate and jigsaw
- Online groups: synchronous and asynchronous
- Team-based learning
- Learning communities
- Issues in designing group work
- In conclusion
- Supplementary reading
- Experiential Learning: Case-Based, Problem-Based, And Reality-Based:
- Argument for experiential learning
- Essence of experiential learning
- Types of experiential learning representing levels of reality:
- Case method
- Problem-based learning
- Games, simulations, and role-playing
- Field experience
- In conclusion
- Supplementary reading
- Using High-Stakes And Low-Stakes Writing To Enhance Learning:
- Little theory: high stakes and low stakes:
- High-stakes assignments
- Low-stakes writing
- Low-stakes writing:
- Kinds
- Occasions
- Handling low-stakes writing
- High-stakes writing:
- Topics and assignments
- Criteria for evaluation
- Multiple papers and multiple drafts
- Worst-case scenario
- Responding to high-stakes papers
- Middle-stakes assignments: think pieces
- Peer response
- About correctness: spelling and grammar
- Technology and writing:
- Process of writing
- Revising
- Dialogic, collaborative dimension of writing
- Teacher's role with technology
- About grading:
- Portfolios
- Contract grading
- Preventing-and handling-plagiarism
- In conclusion
- Supplementary reading
- Technology And Teaching:
- How will technology enhance teaching and learning?
- Teaching with technology:
- Content
- Instructor
- Students
- Technology tools
- Teaching online or at a distance
- Handling the technology boom
- What is the impact of technology on teaching and learning?
- In conclusion
- Supplementary readings
- Part 5: Skills For Use In Other Teaching Situations:
- Teaching Large Classes (You Can Still Get Active Learning!):
- Blended learning as an alternative strategy
- Facilitating active learning:
- Encouraging student writing in large classes
- Student anonymity
- Organization is the key:
- Giving tests in large classes
- Communicating with large classes
- Coordinating Multisection courses
- Training and supervising teaching assistants
- In conclusion
- Supplementary reading
- Laboratory Instruction: Ensuring An Active Learning Experience:
- Styles of laboratory instruction:
- Expository instruction
- Inquiry instruction
- Discovery instruction
- Problem-based learning
- Studio instruction brings together the arts and sciences
- Turning novice researchers into practicing scientists
- Wet, dry, and in silico
- What research says
- In conclusion
- Supplementary reading
- Part 6: Teaching For Higher-Level Goals:
- Teaching Students How To Become More Strategic And Self-Regulated Learners:
- What are the characteristics of strategic learners?
- Importance of goals and self-reflection
- Increasing students' self-awareness
- Using existing knowledge to help learn:
- New things
- Teaching domain-specific and course-specific strategies
- Methods for checking understanding
- Knowing how to learn is not enough-students must also want to learn
- Putting it all together-executive control process in strategic learning
- What instructors can do to help their students succeed in online or blended instructional environments
- In conclusion
- Supplementary reading
- Teaching Thinking:
- What are we up against?
- Thinking pedagogy as a confused landscape
- Frameworks that support teaching thinking:
- How do thinking skills vary in complexity?
- How do thinking characteristics change over time in college?
- How does motivation influence thinking success?
- How does intelligence influence thinking capacity?
- How does learning style influence thinking development?
- What role does emotion play in thinking success?
- How does content complexity influence thinking success?
- Improving thinking quality
- In conclusion
- Supplementary reading
- Ethics Of Teaching:
- Responsibilities to students:
- To encourage the free pursuit of learning
- To demonstrate respect for students
- To respect confidentiality
- To model the best scholarly and ethical standards
- To foster honest academic conduct and to ensure fair evaluation
- To avoid exploitation, harassment, or discrimination
- Making ethical choices
- In conclusion
- Supplementary reading
- Part 7: Lifelong Learning As A Teacher:
- Vitality And Growth Throughout Your Teaching Career:
- How can you develop effective skills and strategies?:
- Looking for new ideas, methods, and strategies
- How can you get feedback to help you continue to improve?
- Keys to improvement with feedback from students
- In conclusion
- Supplementary reading
- References
- Index.