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July 3, 2025
Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research and Theory for College and University Teachers, 9th ed.
- Author
- McKeachie, Wilbert J., ed.
- Publisher
- D.C. Heath and Co., Lexington, MA
- ISBN
- 0669194344
- Table of Contents
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Part 1. Getting started
ch.1. Introduction
ch. 2. Countdown for course preparation
ch. 3. Planning your students' learning activities
ch. 4. Meeting a class for the first time
Part 2. Basic skills for facilitating student learning
ch. 5. Facilitating discussion: posing problems, listening, questioning
ch. 6. Lecturing
ch. 7. Testing and assessing learning: assigning grades is not the most important function
ch. 8. What to do about cheating
ch. 9. ABC's of assigning grades
Part 3. Adding to your repertoire of skills and strategies for facilitating student learning:
ch. 10. Teaching students to learn through writing: papers, journals, and reports
ch. 11. Teaching students how to learn more from textbooks and other reading
ch. 12. Laboratory teaching: teaching students to think like scientists
ch. 13. Experiential learning: service learning, fieldwork, and collaborative research
ch. 14. Peer learning, collaborative learning, cooperative learning
ch. 15. Project methods, independent study, and one-on-one teaching
ch. 16. Problem-based learning: teaching with cases, simulations, and games
ch. 17. Using communication and information technologies effectively
ch. 18. Class size and sectional courses
ch. 19. Teaching large classes (you can still get active learning)
Part 4. Understanding students
ch. 20. Taking student social diversity into account
ch. 21. Problem students (there's almost always at least one!)
ch. 22. Counseling and advising
Part 5. Lifelong learning for you as well as your students
ch. 23. Appraising and improving your teaching: using students, peers, experts, and classroom research
ch. 24. Ethics in college teaching
Part 6. Teaching for higher-level goals
ch. 25. Motivating students for your course and for lifelong learning
ch. 26. Teaching students how to learn
ch. 27. Teaching thinking
ch. 28. Teaching values: should we? Could we?
McKeachie's Teaching Tips provides helpful strategies for dealing with both the everyday problems of university teaching and those that arise in trying to maximize learning for every student. The strategies suggested in the text are adaptable to specific classroom situations. The book does not suggest a "set of recipes" to be followed mechanically; it gives instructors the tools they need to deal with the ever-changing dynamics of teaching and learning. (From the Publisher)