The professor's puzzle : teaching in Christian higher education /
Lawson, Michael S.
The professor's puzzle : teaching in Christian higher education / [print] Michael S. Lawson. - Nashville : B and H Academic (c)2015.. - xiv, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Preface: Putting the professor's puzzle together. 1. A philosophy for Christian academic education -- 2. Helping students and professors integrate learning -- 3. Learning theories for practitioners -- 4. Planning skills in syllabus design -- 5. Mastering content -- 6. Managing skills: The classroom experience -- 7. Evaluating skills: Assessing students, courses, and professors -- 8. Instructing skills: using appropriate variety -- 9. Relating skills: A particularly Christian idea -- 10. Institutional realities
The Professor's Puzzle is designed as a handbook for new and aspiring professors to help them transition from the independent research of their doctoral program to classroom teaching. Unfortunately, acquiring a Ph.D. often does not involve real preparation for teaching. One cannot assume that mastering content necessarily means one is qualified to teach it. Drawing from years of experience training young faculty members, professor Michael S. Lawson gathers together the best of educational research and practices, leavened with the yeast of Christian theology, so that readers are equipped to put the "teaching puzzle" together. Ideal for aspiring professors in Christian higher education, as well as all who enter the teaching profession, so they may learn artful teaching and careful administration. ;
9781433684104
College teaching.
Christian education.
Education, Higher.
Christian college teachers.
BV1471.L425.L397 2015 BV1471
The professor's puzzle : teaching in Christian higher education / [print] Michael S. Lawson. - Nashville : B and H Academic (c)2015.. - xiv, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Preface: Putting the professor's puzzle together. 1. A philosophy for Christian academic education -- 2. Helping students and professors integrate learning -- 3. Learning theories for practitioners -- 4. Planning skills in syllabus design -- 5. Mastering content -- 6. Managing skills: The classroom experience -- 7. Evaluating skills: Assessing students, courses, and professors -- 8. Instructing skills: using appropriate variety -- 9. Relating skills: A particularly Christian idea -- 10. Institutional realities
The Professor's Puzzle is designed as a handbook for new and aspiring professors to help them transition from the independent research of their doctoral program to classroom teaching. Unfortunately, acquiring a Ph.D. often does not involve real preparation for teaching. One cannot assume that mastering content necessarily means one is qualified to teach it. Drawing from years of experience training young faculty members, professor Michael S. Lawson gathers together the best of educational research and practices, leavened with the yeast of Christian theology, so that readers are equipped to put the "teaching puzzle" together. Ideal for aspiring professors in Christian higher education, as well as all who enter the teaching profession, so they may learn artful teaching and careful administration. ;
9781433684104
College teaching.
Christian education.
Education, Higher.
Christian college teachers.
BV1471.L425.L397 2015 BV1471