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Concepts and Choices attempts to combine the theory behind teaching and learning with more practical teaching formats and models. The authors attempt to connect readers with their own experiences as struggling students, then as teachers, and finally as stimulators of fresh and new ideas. They focus on a handful of complex questions: how to teach given an ever-expanding knowledge base and changing ideology; how to create appropriate learning environments given a diversifying student body, and how to adapt to students with special needs. Timpson and Bendel-Simso attempt to meet the challenge of what constitutes good teaching by summarizing the ideas of a wide variety of experts inside and outside the profession. These concepts provide the choices for improvement and success. (From the Publisher)
"If I'm putting them to sleep, at least it's mutual. They're killing me." If your class is ever bored, hostile, aggressive, or just not quite right, if you are open to suggestion and want to fix it yourself, this teaching improvement manual is for you. Organized for easy reference, Small Group Teaching will provide a lift for lagging classroom morale and interaction. So if your students were silent today, don't blame them or yourself, look up the solutions in this do-it-yourself guide. Professor Richard G. Tiberius based Small Group Teaching on his experiences as a teaching consultant at the Centre for Studies in Medical Education at the University of Toronto, and on his meetings, seminars, and workshops with individuals and groups of community college and university faculty in virtually every discipline. His previous teaching has included high school in Los Angeles and the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania; he is now conducting a graduate course in faculty development at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. He first airs his evolving ideas with his two daughters and hi wife, all of whom are at the University of Toronto, his daughters as students and Joyce as a cancer researcher. A third daughter will join the conversations in 2005 when she too is at university. (From the Publisher)
This book examines the teaching portfolio approach to evaluating classroom performance of college instructors. It notes that an estimated 1,000 colleges and universities in the United States are now using or experimenting with portfolios, and that this approach, called a "teaching dossier" has been in use in Canada for 20 years. Key issues, warnings, and benchmarks for success of the portfolio approach are identified. The book distinguishes between the composition and use of portfolios for personnel decisions and for teaching improvement. A detailed plan for institutional implementation is given and there is discussion of how different institutions use portfolios with lists of possible portfolio items. A detailed guide for faculty use in compiling and updating portfolios includes annotations and descriptions of each component. There is a discussion of the use and presentation of electronically augmented teaching portfolios, including the advantages and disadvantages of this format which may include electronic mail, animations, simulations, or videoclips using various media including sources from the Internet and media such as CD ROM. Discussion of the personal use of a portfolio to gain feedback shows how it can be used to improve individual teaching performance. Included are 23 actual teaching portfolios from various disciplines at 14 institutions. (From the Publisher)
This book provides practical, ready-to-use, research-based information about specific strategies and state-of-the-art techniques to improve college teaching. Through its nineteen chapters written by renowned faculty developers, the book offers a wide range of topics and ideas for thought and implementation. The chapters present programs that develop such necessary new skills as different teaching approaches needed for different kinds of students; use of current educational technology; evaluating one’s own teaching and helping others to evaluate theirs; and providing feedback on teaching. Improving College Teaching is an ideal resource for presidents, provost, academic vice presidents, deans, department chairs, instructional development specialists, and faculty—the essential partners in evaluating and improving college teaching. It will also be helpful to students of higher education, whether they are planning careers as academic administrators or faculty. (From the Publisher)
Changing Practices in Evaluation Teaching offers university and college administrators and faculty the kind of research-based and ready-to-use information required to foster truly effective and equitable teaching evaluation at their institutions. Seldin shares his years of extensive research on this topic, uniquely examining the transformation of evaluation trends over the past two decades, while pointing out the implications for the future. He and his noteworthy contributors not only cite the compelling reasons why colleges and universities must institute fair teaching evaluation systems, they also show readers how to do so. A complete guidebook, this volume offers a wide array of forms, case studies, web sites, tables, and examples. It is written for presidents, provosts, academic vice presidents, deans, department chairs, instructional development specialists, and faculty—the essential partners in improving teaching evaluation systems. (From the Publisher)
Each year since 1981, the Carnegie Foundation and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education receives and reviews over 600 nominations for their prestigious Professor of the Year award. Together with a group of higher education experts, Carnegie and CASE conduct interviews with the candidates, looking for excellence in numerous areas: impact on and involvement with students; service to students, institution, community, and profession; and a scholarly approach to teaching. Several rounds of judging narrow the field, culminating in prestigious state and national, including Canadian, Professor of the Year awards. Inspiring Teaching is a fascinating collection of essays written by recent Carnegie Professors of the Year. The book's chapters range from the pragmatic to the philosophical, offering snapshots of outstanding teachers at work in their classrooms. (From the Publisher)
With the growing importance of open and distance education around the world, this unique and comprehensive overview integrates historical, contemporary and future aspects of distance education. Packed with international case studies, the author goes beyond describing the methods, media and technicalities of learning and teaching in distance education by also dealing with the sociological and psychological implications and the cultural conditions. This work is a major contribution to our thinking on open and distance education and provides an international perspective on evaluating concepts of distance education in American, European, and Asian countries. Building on his extensive experience of research and practice, Professor Peters explores many paradigmatic models, which look at current practice and will influence future thinking. He examines the legacy of distance education and explores the impact of digitalization on its practice and theory. This book is essential reading for academics involved in open or distance learning in schools and further and higher education, as well as policy makers and students. It will inspire them to consider important theoretical aspects and current thinking on the topic. (From the Publisher)
This is the first comprehensive guide to teaching in the social sciences ever published. "Two complete works in one" provides a survey of the larger institutional context and alternative perspectives on current debates in higher education, as well as a comprehensive and practical guide to teaching. Contains original essays by leading teachers and scholars including Craig Calhoun, Teresa Sullivan, Dean Dorn, Paul Baker, Charles Tilly, Howard Aldrich, Daniel Chambliss, and Mary Romero. The accompanying Fieldguide for Teaching includes an addition 80 articles, excerpts, teaching tips, exercises, checklists, and overheads covering a complete spectrum of teaching concerns. (From the Publisher)