Teaching Nonmajors
Teaching Nonmajors

Author: P. Sven Arvidson

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2008-07-03

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 0791478092

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Teaching Nonmajors focuses on what dedicated teachers want to know—how can I teach better in the classroom? Unlike most books on teaching, this book delivers uncomplicated and immediately useful techniques and strategies for teaching required courses to nonmajors. Providing practical examples and brief anecdotes drawn from a variety of disciplines in the liberal arts and sciences, the author describes simple ways to break up lectures, how to stimulate the best discussions, the art of assignments, how to improve student ratings, and successful strategies for engaging nonmajors and for handling problem students. Teaching Nonmajors is written especially for liberal arts college and university professors at all career stages—from adjuncts and new professors, to seasoned professors looking for a fresh approach heading into a new term.

Teaching and Learning Religion
Teaching and Learning Religion

Author: Davina C. Lopez

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-09-07

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 135027870X

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Eugene V. Gallagher and Patricia O'Connell have influenced a generation of religious studies professors through their leadership in Wabash Center teaching workshops. In this book, contributors pay tribute to their influence and build on their insights in short essays focused on three perennial themes: Place, Plan, and Persona. Firstly, the book considers how negotiating your institutional context is essential to effective teaching. Reflections include essays on places of learning, the interaction between person and place, and the online teaching environment. Secondly, the contributors explore how effective teaching requires intentional self-critical design of students' intellectual experience, from the arc of the course, to the scope and purpose of the curriculum. Topics include planning for playfulness, teaching 'strangeness', and strengthening student engagement. In the final section on persona, topics include humour in the classroom, authenticity in the teaching profession, team teaching, and ungrading. This book contributes to the scholarship of teaching and learning in religious studies and higher education by engaging Gallagher and Killen's insights, and by exploring a range of perspectives on core and enduring pedagogical concepts and questions.

Teaching What You Don’t Know
Teaching What You Don’t Know

Author: Therese Huston

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-08-31

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0674054024

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Your graduate work was on bacterial evolution, but now you’re lecturing to 200 freshmen on primate social life. In this practical and funny book, an experienced teaching consultant offers many creative strategies for dealing with typical problems. Original, useful, and hopeful, this book reminds you that teaching what you don’t know, to students whom you may not understand, is not just a job. It’s an adventure.

Approaches to Teaching the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper
Approaches to Teaching the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper

Author: Stephen Carl Arch

Publisher: Modern Language Association

Published: 2022-09-21

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1603294929

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A cosmopolitan author who spent nearly a decade in Europe and was versed in the works of his British and French contemporaries, James Fenimore Cooper was also deeply concerned with the America of his day and its history. His works embrace themes that have dominated American literature since: the frontier; the oppression of Native Americans by Europeans; questions of race, gender, and class; and rugged individualism, as represented by figures like the pirate, the spy, the hunter, and the settler. His most memorable character, Natty Bumppo, has entered into American popular culture. The essays in this volume offer students bridges to Cooper's novels, which grapple with complex moral issues that are still crucial today. Engaging with film adaptations, cross-culturalism, animal studies, media history, environmentalism, and Indigenous American poetics, the essays offer new ways to bring these novels to life in the classroom.

Mapping Biology Knowledge
Mapping Biology Knowledge

Author: K. Fisher

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-04-11

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0306472252

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Mapping Biology Knowledge addresses two key topics in the context of biology, promoting meaningful learning and knowledge mapping as a strategy for achieving this goal. Meaning-making and meaning-building are examined from multiple perspectives throughout the book. In many biology courses, students become so mired in detail that they fail to grasp the big picture. Various strategies are proposed for helping instructors focus on the big picture, using the `need to know' principle to decide the level of detail students must have in a given situation. The metacognitive tools described here serve as support systems for the mind, creating an arena in which learners can operate on ideas. They include concept maps, cluster maps, webs, semantic networks, and conceptual graphs. These tools, compared and contrasted in this book, are also useful for building and assessing students' content and cognitive skills. The expanding role of computers in mapping biology knowledge is also explored.

Dynamic Group-Piano Teaching
Dynamic Group-Piano Teaching

Author: Pamela Pike

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-05-08

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1315280361

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Dynamic Group-Piano Teaching provides future teachers of group piano with an extensive framework of concepts, upon which effective and dynamic teaching strategies can be explored and developed. Within 15 chapters, it encompasses learning theory, group process, and group dynamics within the context of group-piano instruction. This book encourages teachers to transfer learning and group dynamics theory into classroom practice. As a graduate piano pedagogy text book, supplement for pedagogy classes, or as a resource for graduate teaching assistants and professional piano teachers, the book examines learning theory, student needs, assessment and specific issues for the group-piano instructor.

The Handbook of Practice and Research in Study Abroad
The Handbook of Practice and Research in Study Abroad

Author: Ross Lewin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-11-24

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 1135852340

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Co-published with the Association for American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) The Handbook of Practice and Research in Study Abroad is a comprehensive survey of the field. Each chapter eloquently conveys an enthusiasm for study abroad alongside a critical assessment of the most up-to-date research, theory, and practice.

Annotated Chaucer bibliography
Annotated Chaucer bibliography

Author: Mark Allen

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2015-11-01

Total Pages: 934

ISBN-13: 1784996459

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An extremely thorough, expertly compiled and crisply annotated comprehensive bibliography of Chaucer scholarship between 1997 and 2010