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| Genre/Form: | Handbooks and manuals Handbooks, manuals, etc Guides, manuels, etc |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Davis, Barbara Gross. Tools for teaching. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1993 (OCoLC)735513350 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Barbara Gross Davis |
| ISBN: | 1555425682 9781555425685 0585183082 9780585183084 |
| OCLC Number: | 27975225 |
| Description: | xxv, 429 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Getting under way : Preparing or revising a course -- The course syllabus -- The first day of class -- Responding to a diverse student body : Academic accommodations for students with disabilities -- Diversity and complexity in the classroom : Considerations of race, ethnicity, and gender -- Reentry students -- Teaching academically diverse students -- Discussion strategies : Leading a discussion -- Encouraging student participation in discussion -- Asking questions -- Fielding students' questions -- Lecture strategies : Preparing to teach the large lecture course -- Delivering a lecture -- Explaining clearly -- Personalizing the large lecture class -- Supplements and alternatives to lecturing : Encouraging student participation -- Maintaining instructional quality with limited resources -- Collaborative and experimental strategies : Collaborative learning: group work and study teams -- Rock playing and case studies -- Fieldwork -- Enhancing students' learning and motivation : Helping students learn -- Learning styles and preferences -- Motivating students -- Writing skills and homework assignments : Helping students write better in all courses -- Designing effective writing assignments -- Evaluating students' written work -- Homework: problem sets -- Testing and grading : Quizzes, tests, and exams -- Allaying students' anxieties about tests -- Multiple-choice and matching tests -- Short-answer and essay tests -- Grading practices -- Calculating and assigning grades -- Preventing academic dishonesty -- Instructional media and technology : Chalkboards -- Flipcharts -- Transparencies and overhead projectors -- Slides -- Films and videotapes -- Computers and multimedia -- Evaluation to improve teaching : Fast feedback -- Watching yourself on videotape -- Self-evaluation and teaching dossier -- Teaching outside the classroom : Holding office hours -- Academic advising and mentoring undergraduates -- Guiding, training, and supervising graduate student instructors -- Finishing up : The last days of class -- Student rating forms -- Writing letters of recommendation. |
| Series Title: | Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series. |
| Responsibility: | Barbara Gross Davis. |
Abstract:
Presents practical advice for beginning teachers of undergraduates, covering such topics as planning a course, writing a syllabus, responding to diversity, leading discussions, understanding various learning styles, testing and grading, and other related topics.
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