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A summary of the findings of a survey of 765 students at Wright State University on what students found to be the most annoying behaviors by other students in order of importance, and tips on how to deal with those classroom annoyances!
The "Heeding New Voices" study, a year-long series of structured interviews with new faculty and graduate students aspiring to be faculty members around the country, sought both to give voice to those who are just beginning their academic careers and to provide guidance for the senior faculty, chairs, deans, and others in higher education responsible for shaping the professoriate of the future. This booklet, drawn in part from the study's findings, includes: (1) ten principles of good practice; (2) inventories to prompt department chairs, senior colleagues, and other academic leaders to examine their individual and institutional practices; and (3) examples of concrete and innovative approaches to good practice being tried out now in a variety of institutional settings. The principles reflect the three categories of stated need from the "Heeding New Voices" interviews: improving review and tenure processes (principles 1-4), encouraging positive relations with colleagues and students (principles 5-7), and easing stresses of time and balance (principles 8-10). (Contains 13 references). (EV)
Grading class participation signals students the kind of learning and thinking an instructor values. This chapter describes three models of class participation, several models for assessment including a sample rubric, problems with assessing classroom participation, and strategies for overcoming these problems.
“Teaching in a Web Based Distance Learning Environment: An Evaluation Summary Based on Four Courses”
Examines the defense of orthodoxy and the campaign against political correctness on university campuses in the United States. Dangers of a conservative agenda; Analysis of paranoia, fetishism, and impostors among leaders attacking political correctness; Anti-intellectualism in U.S. life; Discrediting of critical efforts by conservatives; Role of diversity of students on college campuses in conflict; Individualism and political correctness; Change in idea of community.
Discusses the educational issues inherent in multicultural education and how students should learn about diverse cultures. Designing and implementing programs that are educationally valuable; Philosophical issues; Curricular issues; Faculty issues; Pedagogy; The process.
Social scientists generally agree that different cultures have different cognitive styles. New educational models which operate within a multicultural framework are necessary. As a result, traditional approaches to training educators must be adjusted if minority groups are to enter teacher education programs.
Calling for accountability, Practice What You Preach discusses ethical questions that arise in congregations and pastoral leadership. Formation of pastors, empowering leaders, resolving power struggles between clergy and laity--these and other critical pastoral issues are addressed by an ecumenical group of contributors. Divided into four parts: the way the churches train their pastors; the way their pastors live; the way communities worship; and the way communities behave, this collection identifies and offers positive solutions to areas where churches are often slow to change. Each essay begins with a case describing a typical problem--from wages to in-fighting--and then discusses what virtues or character traits might be developed to resolve the problem effectively. An eye-opener of a book . . . it will involve you from page one as it invites intelligent people everywhere to reckon with its courageous, timely content. (From the Publisher)