Teaching at its best: a research-based resource for college instructors

This best-selling handbook is an essential toolbox--a compilation of hundredsof practical teaching techniques, formats, classroom activities, and exercises. In the second edition, it was revised and expanded to cover more on the topics relevant to the current college classroom, such as technology and the Internet, problem-based learning, diversity, service learning, and faculty evaluation systems. This new edition includes updated information on the Millenial student, current research from cognitive psychology, a focus on outcomes maps, the latest legal options on copyright issues, and more. It also includes entirely new chapters on matching teaching methods with learning outcomes, inquiry-guided learning, and using visuals to teach, as well as section on the Socraticmethod, SCALE-UP classrooms, and more. New topics, sections, and chapters include: Millennial generation students New research from cognitive psychology New technology including wikis, blogs, podcasting, vodcasting Using clickers (personal response systems) Using visuals including concept maps, mind maps, concept circle diagrams, etc. Latest legal opinions on copyright issues Electroniccheating New frameworks for learning outcomes Matching teaching methods with learning outcomes Ways to motivate students to take lecture notes and ways to teach students how to take good notes Examples of questions for discussion andwhat cognitive processes they demand The Socratic method Inquiry-guide learning Composing multiple choice and matching questions to assess higher-order thinking skills Tools for groups doing larger projects Teaching students how to read academic material SCALE-UP Classrooms Updated terminologyLinda B. Nilson is the founding director of the Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation (OTEI) at Clemson University. She is the author of The Graphic Syllabus and the Outcomes Map: Communicating Your Course (Jossey-Bass, 2007) and coeditor of Enhancing Learning with Laptops in the Classroom (with Barbara E. Weaver, Jossey-Bass, 2005), associate editor of Volumes 25 and 26 of ToImprove the Academy (with Douglas R. Robertson, Anker, 2007, 2008), and editor of Volumes 27 and 28 (with Judith E. Miller, Jossey-Bass, 2009 and 2010). Inaddition, Dr. Nilson has published many articles and book chapters and has presented conference sessions and faculty workshops both nationally and internationally on dozens of topics related to teaching effectiveness, assessment, scholarly productivity, and academic career matters. Before coming Clemson, she directed teaching centers at Vanderbilt University and the University of California, Riverside and was sociology professor at UCLA. Dr. Nilson has held leadership positions in the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the Southern Regional Faculty and Instructional Development Consortium.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-40104-0
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 26/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés