Teaching Undergraduates

ISBN-13: 9780805829891 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 192 str.

Roger L. Dominowski

Opis

This practical guide is designed to help college teachers plan their undergraduate courses and deliver high-quality instruction. The book's theme is that teaching is a creative, decision-making, idea-testing enterprise whose purpose is to facilitate student learning in all of its facets. Its goals it to help instructors understand the multiple kinds of learning taking place in their courses so that they can select, devise, evaluate and modify teaching techniques to improve their effectiveness. Based on research on human learning, memory, thinking and problem solving, as well as studies of teaching and less-formal reports of teaching practices, the book offers concrete advice about all aspects of college teaching.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. Part I: Introduction. Course Planning. Part II: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Understanding Attention and Working Memory. Learning and Remembering. Teaching Thinking. Part III: Implementing Instruction. Selecting Textbooks. Lectures and Discussions. Writing Assignments. Test Construction. Grading Systems. Part IV: Professional Issues and Concerns. Ethical Issues and Special Situations. Student Evaluations and Improving Instruction.

O autorze

Roger L. Dominowski