McKeachie's teaching tips : strategies, research, and theory for college and university teachers / [print]
Wilbert J. McKeachie ; with chapters by Graham Gibbs ... [and others.
- tenth edition.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, (c)1999.
- xx, 379 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Getting started: Introduction -- Countdown for course preparation -- Planning your students' learning activities -- Meeting a class for the first time -- Basic skills for facilitating student learning -- Facilitating discussion: posing problems, listening, questioning -- Lecturing -- Testing and assessing learning: assigning grades is not the most important function -- What to do about cheating -- ABC's of assigning grades -- Adding to your repertoire of skills and strategies for facilitating student learning: Teaching students to learn through writing: papers, journals, and reports -- Teaching students how to learn more from textbooks and other reading -- Laboratory teaching: teaching students to think like scientists -- Experiential learning: service learning, fieldwork, and collaborative research -- Peer learning, collaborative learning, cooperative learning -- Project methods, independent study, and one-on-one teaching -- Problem-based learning: teaching with cases, simulations, and games -- Using communication and information technologies effectively -- Class size and sectional courses -- Teaching large classes (you can still get active learning) -- Understanding students: Taking student social diversity into account -- Problem students (there's almost always at least one!) -- Counseling and advising -- Lifelong learning for you as well as your students: Appraising and improving your teaching: using students, peers, experts, and classroom research -- Ethics in college teaching -- Teaching for higher-level goals: Motivating students for your course and for lifelong learning -- Teaching students how to learn -- Teaching thinking -- Teaching values: should we? Could we?