Concepts and Choices for Teaching: Meeting the Challenges in Higher Education

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)