Full Description
This book offers a lively, engaging and potentially transformative introduction to the ideas, insights and practical know-how that a modern university teacher requires. Bringing together contributors with extensive practical teaching experience as well as pedagogical expertise, it uses accessible language and real cases to explore everyday teaching challenges and provide strategies and techniques for stimulating deep and satisfying learning.
This book is for anyone with the ambition to teach well at degree level.
Contents
SECTION I: TEACHING IN TODAY'S UNIVERSITIES
Learning and Learners in Modern Times
SECTION II: PRINCIPLES OF LEARNING AND TEACHING
Learning and Teaching through Language
Learning and Teaching through Active Engagement
SECTION III: DESIGNING EFFECTIVE LEARNING AND TEACHING
Learning and Teaching in the Online Era
Building Effective Relationships for Learning
Designing Assessment to Promote Learning
Designing and Presenting a Student-Friendly Course
SECTION IV: INCLUSIVE PRACTICE FOR DIVERSE COHORTS
Supporting Demographic Diversity
Helping Students Participate in the Discourse of your Discipline
SECTION V: BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
Teaching that Communicates and Inspires.
