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Scholarship March 29, 2017

147 Practical Tips for Teaching Professors

The Wabash Center

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Author
Magnan, Robert, ed.
Publisher
Atwood Publishing, Madison, WI
ISBN
912150092
Table of Contents
Preface

Before You Begin
Class Organization
The First Day
At the Bell: 1, 2, 3 Go!

Physicality
-Delivery
-Movement
-Blackboards

Lecturing as Performance Art
Teaching Your Students to Think
Examples
Helping Your Students Read

Large Lectures
-Student Input
-Preparation
-Delivery

Discussion
-Teacher Participation
-Student Participation
-Concept and Structure
-Odds and Ends

Group Projects

How Are You Teaching?
-Check with Your Students
-Reacting to Student Evaluations
-Do It Yourself!

Motivating Your Students to Read
Work With Your Colleagues
Motivation: Critical Moments

Evaluating Your Students
-Grading Written Assignments
-Grading Participation
-Grading Tests

Reviewing: One More Time
-Reviews Can Help Students Cope with Exam Anxiety
-Reviews Can Help Motivate Students
-Reviews Can Provide Summary and Perspective
-Reviews Can Focus on Specific Areas of Need
-Reviews Can Aim at Specific Exam Items
-Reviews Can Provide Fresh Angles and Approaches

Final Words

(16 contributors listed in the acknowledgments)
Whether you're new to teaching or an experienced veteran, this is a book you'll want to keep handy. From pre-term activities right through final exams, grading, and evaluation, 147 Practical Tips covers all the important phases of the teaching process.

Educators use 147 Practical Tips for a quick idea to spice up a class. Teaching and learning centers keep shelf copies as a reference for faculty and teaching assistants. And Chairs and Deans give the book to their faculty during orientation. Take advantage of the special pricing to the right so your colleagues can share these teaching tips. (From the Publisher)