McKeachie's teaching tips : strategies, research, and theory for college and university teachers

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.

• I Getting Started
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Countdown for Course Preparation
• 3 Meeting a Class for the First Time
• II Basic Skills for Facilitating Student Learning
• 4 Reading as Active Learning
• 5 Facilitating Discussion: Posing Problems, Listening, Questioning
• 6 How to Make Lectures More Effective
• 7 Assessing, Testing, and Evaluating: Grading Is Not the Most Important Function
• 8 Testing: The Details
• 9 Tests from the Students' Perspective
• 10 What to Do About Cheating
• 11 The ABC's of Assigning Grades
• III Understanding Students
• 12 Motivation in the College Classroom
• 13 Teaching Culturally Diverse Students
• 14 Dealing with Student Problems and Problem Students (There's Almost Always at Least One!)
• IV Adding to Your Repertoire of Skills and Strategies for Facilitating Active Learning
• 15 How to Enhance Learning by Using High-Stakes and Low-Stakes Writing
• 16 Active Learning: Cooperative, Collaborative, and Peer Learning
• 17 Problem-Based Learning: Teaching with Cases, Simulations, and Games
• 18 Technology and Teaching
• V Skills for Use in Other Teaching Situations
• 19 Teaching Large Classes (You Can Still Get Active Learning!)
• 20 Laboratory Instruction: Ensuring an Active Learning Experience
• 21 The Teacher's Role in Experiential Learning
• 22 Teaching by Distance Education
• VI Teaching for Higher-Level Goals
• 23 Teaching Students How to Become More Strategic and Self-Regulated Learners
• 24 Teaching Thinking
• 25 The Ethics of Teaching and the Teaching of Ethics
• VII Lifelong Learning for the Teacher
• 26 Vitality and Growth Throughout Your Teaching Career
• References
• Index