TY - BOOK AU - McKeachie,Wilbert James AU - Svinicki,Marilla D. AU - Hofer,Barbara K. TI - McKeachie's teaching tips: strategies, research, and theory for college and university teachers SN - 0618515569 AV - LB 1778 .M35 2006 U1 - 378.1/2 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - College teaching KW - First year teachers KW - Teaching KW - Universities N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Countdown for course preparation -- Meeting a class for the first time -- Reading as active learning -- Facilitating discussion : posing problems, listening, questioning -- How to make lectures more effective -- Assessing, testing, and evaluating : grading is not the most important function -- Testing : the details -- Tests from the students' perspective -- What to do about cheating -- The ABC's of assigning grades -- Motivation in the college classroom -- Teaching culturally diverse students -- Dealing with student problems and problem students (there's almost always at least one!) -- How to enhance learning by using high-stakes and low-stakes writing -- Active learning : cooperative, collaborative, and peer learning -- Problem-based learning : teaching with cases, simulations, and games -- Technology and teaching -- Teaching large classes (you can still get active learning!) -- Laboratory instruction : ensuring an active learning experience -- Teacher's role in experiential learning -- Teaching by distance education -- Teaching students how to become more strategic and self-regulated learners -- Teaching thinking -- Ethics of teaching and the teaching of ethics -- Vitality and growth throughout your teaching career UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1513/2005925784-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1513/2005925784-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1513/2005925784-t.html ER -