On Course: A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching - Couverture souple

Lang, James M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0674047419 ISBN 13 : 9780674047419

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2010

Synopsis

You go into teaching with high hopes: to inspire students, to motivate them to learn, to help them love your subject. Then you find yourself facing a crowd of expectant faces on the first day of the first semester, and you think 'Now what do I do?' Practical and lively, "On Course" is full of experience-tested, research-based advice for graduate students and new teaching faculty. It provides a range of innovative and traditional strategies that work well without requiring extensive preparation or long grading sessions when you're trying to meet your own demanding research and service requirements. What do you put on the syllabus? How do you balance lectures with group assignments or discussions - and how do you get a dialogue going when the students won't participate? What grading system is fairest and most efficient for your class? Should you post lecture notes on a website? How do you prevent cheating, and what do you do if it occurs? How can you help the student with serious personal problems without becoming overly involved? And what do you do about the student who won't turn off his cell phone? Packed with anecdotes and concrete suggestions, this book will keep both inexperienced and veteran teachers on course as they navigate the calms and storms of classroom life.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Briskly moving through the basics, [Lang] tackles the hard questions...with humor and insight...On Course is a vital resource for educators, even those who don't fit the first-year college-teaching market. My copy is dotted with notes about new ideas to try out in my lecture class this fall. Happily though, I took away from Lang's guidebook much more than techniques. -- Barbara J. King bookslut.com If you are looking for a [college teaching] job, get a headstart by buying and reading this book. If you already have one, your teaching still stands to gain much from it. --Greg Garrard Times Higher Education Supplement 20080904

Biographie de l'auteur

James M. Lang is Associate Professor of English at Assumption College and former assistant director of the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University. He is the author of Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons From the First Year.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0674047419
• ISBN 13: 9780674047419
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 336