Despite a growing body of research on teaching methods, instructors lack a comprehensive resource that highlights and synthesizes proven approaches. Teaching for Learning fills that gap. Each of the one hundred and one entries: describes an approach and lists its essential features and elements demonstrates how that approach has been used in education, including specific examples from different disciplines reviews findings from the research literature describes techniques to improve effectiveness. Teaching for Learning provides instructors with a resource grounded in the academic knowledge base, written in an easily accessible, engaging, and practical style.
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List of Figures and Tables Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: The Lecture Method 1 Guided Note-taking 2 Pause Procedure 3 Punctuated Lecture 4 Wake-Up Call 5 Interpreted Lecture 6 Responsive lecture 7 Socratic Seminar 8 Take a Guess 9 Lecture Bingo 10 Find the Flaw 11 Field Lecture Chapter 2: The Discussion MEthod 12 Snowball 13 What If 14 Scored Discussion 15 Think-Pair-Share 16 In the News 17 Formal Argument 18 Circle of Voices 19 Can We Have Class Outside? 20 Seeded Discussion 21 Observation Team Discussion 22 Campus and Community Events 23 Journal Club 24 Case Study Chapter 3: Reciprocal Peer Teaching 25 Note-Taking Pairs 26 Pairs Check 27 Milling 28 Gallery Walk 29 Anonymous Cards 30 Each One, Teach One 31 Jigsaw 32 Microteaching 33 Panel Presentation 34 Clustering 35 Speed Interviews Chapter 4: Academic Games 36 Crossword Puzzles 37 Scavenger Hunt 38 Who Am I? 39 Pictionary 40 Trivia 41 Hollywood Squares 42 Houston, We Have a Problem 43 Monopoly 44 Role Play 45 Taboo 46 Icebreakers 47 Top 10 48 Pic of the Day 49 Webquest Chapter 5: Reading 50 Anticipation Guide 51 Experience-Text-Relationship 52 Directed Reading and Thinking 53 SQ3R 54 What Counts as Fact? 55 Problematic Situation 56 Text Coding 57 Question-Answer Relationship 58 Three Level Reading Guide 59 What Would You Ask? 60 Research Paper Reviewer 61 Select a Sentence Chapter 6: Writing to Learn 62 Brainstorming 63 Freewriting 64 Speak-Write Pairs 65 Graffiti Board 66 Journaling 67 Reader Response Paper 68 Journals 69 Sentence Passage Springboard 70 Interviews 71 Wikipedia Article 72 Annotations 73 Yesterday's News 74 Field Notes 75 Interview Protocols 76 Critical Book Review Chapter 7: Graphic Organizers 77 Hypothesis Proof Organizer 78 Venn Diagrams 79 Concept Maps 80 Main Idea-Detail Chart 81 Timeline 82 Visual Lists 83 3-2-1 Process 84 Matrix 85 Cause & Effect Chains 86 K-W-L Chart 87 Zone of Relevance 88 Force Field Analysis 89 Author Charts Chapter 8: Metacognitive Reflection 90 Today I Learned 91 Shadow a Professional 92 Wrappers 93 Visible Classroom Opinion Poll 94 140-Character Memoir 95 Self Assessment 96 Group Assessment 97 Elevator Pitch 98 Learning Log 99 Cultural Encounters 100 Post Hoc Analysis Conclusion 101 DIY IDEA
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"What a valuable catalog of 101 learning activities! And they adapt easily to almost any course. Each activity is an evidence-based variation on one of eight major instructional methods (e.g., lecture, discussion, graphic organizers, academic games). An instructor need never run out of effective teaching and learning strategies." Linda B. Nilson. Director, Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation, Clemson University, USA "This expertly catalogued book provides an impressive number of well-planned, evidence-based teaching and learning approaches along with references to the research that confirms their outcomes. Instructors will be excited to apply these strategies to the teaching challenges and opportunities that they encounter." Milton D. Cox, Director of the Original Lilly Conference on College Teaching, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching and the Learning Communities Journal
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780415699365
Publisert
2015-09-21
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
476 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
06, P
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
340

Biographical note

Claire Howell Major is Professor of Higher Education Administration at the University of Alabama, USA. Michael S. Harris is Associate Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Southern Methodist University, USA. Todd Zakrajsek is Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, and President of the International Teaching Learning Cooperative, USA.