Product Description

This best-selling handbook is an essential toolbox—a compilation of hundreds of practical teaching techniques, formats, classroom activities, and exercises. It is now newly revised and expanded to cover more on the topics relevant to today's classroom such as technology and the Internet, simulations and games, diversity, service learning, and faculty evaluation systems.

While retaining the proven, practical information from the first edition, this revision also includes entirely new sections on teaching with laptops, course portfolios, three new sections on teaching problem solving, and a new chapter on getting your students to do readings. Other new sections include learning and adult learning, the learning-centered syllabus, the cognitive profile learning styles model, and newly written chapters on classroom management/incivility, academic honesty, and grading.

Rich with quick tips on a wide range of current issues, this is a guide that all teachers will continuously refer to for development and support of their teaching.

Contents include 31 chapters on relevant topics such as:
• Understanding your students
• The complete syllabus
• Your first day of class
• Making the most of office hours
• Motivating your students
• Teaching to different learning styles
• Getting your students to do the readings
• Writing-to-learn activities and assignments
• Teaching students to think and write in the disciplines
• Science in the laboratory
• Assessing students' learning in progress
• Test construction/preparing students for tests
• Evaluating and documenting teaching effectiveness

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #66601 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 260 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781882982646
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Back Cover
This best-selling handbook is an essential toolbox—a compilation of hundreds of practical teaching techniques, formats, classroom activities, and exercises. It is now newly revised and expanded to cover more on the topics relevant to today's classroom such as technology and the Internet, simulations and games, diversity, service learning, and faculty evaluation systems.

While retaining the proven, practical information from the first edition, this revision also includes entirely new sections on teaching with laptops, course portfolios, three new sections on teaching problem solving, and a new chapter on getting your students to do readings. Other new sections include learning and adult learning, the learning-centered syllabus, the cognitive profile learning styles model, and newly written chapters on classroom management/incivility, academic honesty, and grading.

About the Author
Linda B. Nilson is director of the Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation at Clemson University.

Customer Reviews

Outstanding collection of practical tips and techniques
Linda has done an excellent job of compiling and explaining some of the best available techniques for teaching and survival as a professor in the modern university environment. The text is highly readable and extremely practical. I have taught for 24 years in a variety of colleges and each time I open the book I find something new to try.

Don't Teach Without It!
Dr. Linda B. Nilson has spent a good part of her professional career in higher education speaking, writing, and teaching about how to be an effective college instructor. Her latest contribution to that effort, Teaching at its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors, 2nd Edition, may be the most comprehensive work to date on the subject.

This is a "real world" book about teaching at the college level. Written in a comfortable 2nd person style, it takes a would-be instructor through all the steps from preparing to teach to evaluating how effective the instruction has been. The discussion on understanding different learning styles and using appropriate teaching strategies to reach diverse learners is straight forward and easy to understand.

In her preface to the book, Nilson says that "Like the first edition, this revision is designed primarily for use in colleges and universities with high standards of instructional excellence". Believe it - and don't teach without it!

Teaching Supplies
This book came recommended to me from my Professor as a valuable reference for my first year teaching college students. The books description matched the condition.