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Author McKeachie, Wilbert James, 1921-

Title McKeachie's teaching tips : strategies, research, and theory for college and university teachers / Wilbert J. McKeachie ; with chapters by Graham Gibbs ... [and others]
Edition Tenth edition
Published Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., [1999]
©1999

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Description xx, 379 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Contents pt. 1. Getting started ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Countdown for course preparation -- ch. 3. Planning your students' learning activities -- ch. 4. Meeting a class for the first time -- pt. 2. Basic skills for facilitating student learning -- ch. 5. Facilitating discussion: posing problems, listening, questioning -- ch. 6. Lecturing -- ch. 7. Testing and assessing learning: assigning grades is not the most important function -- ch. 8. What to do about cheating -- ch. 9. ABC's of assigning grades -- pt. 3. Adding to your repertoire of skills and strategies for facilitating student learning ch. 10. Teaching students to learn through writing: papers, journals, and reports -- ch. 11. Teaching students how to learn more from textbooks and other reading -- ch. 12. Laboratory teaching: teaching students to think like scientists -- ch. 13. Experiential learning: service learning, fieldwork, and collaborative research -- ch. 14. Peer learning, collaborative learning, cooperative learning -- ch. 15. Project methods, independent study, and one-on-one teaching -- ch. 16. Problem-based learning: teaching with cases, simulations, and games -- ch. 17. Using communication and information technologies effectively -- ch. 18. Class size and sectional courses -- ch. 19. Teaching large classes (you can still get active learning) -- pt. 4. Understanding students ch. 20. Taking student social diversity into account -- ch. 21. Problem students (there's almost always at least one!) -- ch. 22. Counseling and advising -- pt. 5. Lifelong learning for you as well as your students ch. 23. Appraising and improving your teaching: using students, peers, experts, and classroom research -- ch. 24. Ethics in college teaching -- pt. 6. Teaching for higher-level goals ch. 25. Motivating students for your course and for lifelong learning -- ch. 26. Teaching students how to learn -- ch. 27. Teaching thinking -- ch. 28. Teaching values: should we? Could we?
Summary This indispensable handbook provides helpful strategies for dealing with both the everyday challenges of university teaching and those that arise in efforts to maximize learning for every student. The suggested strategies are supported by research and adaptable to specific classroom situations. Rather than suggest a "set of recipes" to be followed mechanically, the book gives instructors the tools they need to deal with the ever-changing dynamics of teaching and learning
Notes Earlier editions have title: Teaching tips : a guidebook for the beginning college teacher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-366) and index
Subject College teaching.
First year teachers.
Teachers -- Training of.
Teaching -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Teaching.
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals.
Author Gibbs, Graham.
LC no. 98072060
ISBN 0395903459
Other Titles Teaching tips
Teaching tips