TY - BOOK AU - McKeachie,Wilbert James AU - Svinicki,Marilla D. TI - McKeachie's teaching tips: strategies, research, and theory for college and university teachers SN - 9780618515561 AV - LB1738.H697.M354 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - College teaching KW - First year teachers KW - Teaching N1 - 1 (pages 360-389) and index; Introduction --; Countdown for course preparation --; Meeting a class for the first time --; Reading as active learning --; Facilitating discussion : posing problems, listening, questioning --; How to make lectures more effective --; Assessing, testing, and evaluating : grading is not the most important function --; Testing : the details --; Tests from the students' perspective --; What to do about cheating --; The ABC's of assigning grades --; Motivation in the college classroom --; Teaching culturally diverse students --; Dealing with student problems and problem students (there's almost always at least one!) --; How to enhance learning by using high-stakes and low-stakes writing --; Active learning : cooperative, collaborative, and peer learning --; Problem-based learning : teaching with cases, simulations, and games --; Technology and teaching --; Teaching large classes (you can still get active learning!) --; Laboratory instruction : ensuring an active learning experience --; Teacher's role in experiential learning --; Teaching by distance education --; Teaching students how to become more strategic and self-regulated learners --; Teaching thinking --; Ethics of teaching and the teaching of ethics --; Vitality and growth throughout your teaching career; 2 ER -