The Art & Craft of College Teaching: A Guide for New Professors & Graduate Students - Couverture souple

Rotenberg, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1598741594 ISBN 13 : 9781598741599

Editeur : Left Coast Press Inc, 2006

Synopsis

"The Art & Craft of College Teaching" provides a hands-on, quick-start guide to the college classroom for those who are facing their first five years as independent teachers. In it, you will find the answers to some of college teachings most common questions: How do college students learn most effectively? What are the questions to consider when you develop a course for the first time? How does class size affect course design? How do you set your expectations for your students? How can you help students become better thinkers? Why is the assessment of student learning important to the classroom teacher? What makes lecturing effective? What techniques of preparation and performance work best with which discussions? How do you deal with a slow or non-responsive class? How do you deal with challenges to your authority in the classroom? How do you set up a seminar so that it runs will a minimum of input from you? How do you get students to work collaboratively and effectively on learning exercises? What are the best practices for grading student exams and papers? What do you actually learn from student evaluations?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Rotenberg has taught at DePaul University since 1979 in the sociology and anthropology departments and the international studies program. He is currently chair of the anthropology department and serves on the university Teaching, Learning and Assessment Committee. In 2004, he was named to the inaugural cohort of the St. Vincent DePaul Society, a university-level distinguished professorship for teaching. He has written books, edited collections of articles, and published in scholarly journals including award-winning Landscape and Power in Vienna and Time and Order in Metropolitan Vienna: A Seizure of Schedules. Rotenberg is the past president for the Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Left Coast Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1598741594
• ISBN 13: 9781598741599
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible