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To Learn Is to Teach Is to Create the Final Exam.
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Brown, Ian W. – College Teaching, 1991
An anthropology professor required students to compose essay questions that they felt summarized the principal issues and objectives of the course, based on lecture content. In the final examination, students were given several of their own questions to answer. Students felt they learned more from this format. (MSE)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Assignments, College Instruction, Essays
In Praise of Rehash.
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Barrett, L. R. – Higher Education Review, 1991
Critics of student writing in British lecture courses as "mere rehash of lecture notes" are reminded that (1) by its nature, the lecture course focuses on and is limited to information conveyed in lectures, and (2) professors refuse to use materials such as U.S. textbooks that could supplement the information conveyed in class. (MSE)
Descriptors: Assignments, Comparative Analysis, Expository Writing, Foreign Countries
Teaching about Psychological Perspectives on Abortion.
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Greene, Edith – Teaching of Psychology, 1995
Describes an undergraduate Psychology of Social Problems course. The course focuses on the psychological aspects of legal abortion for adolescents and women, the consequences of denied abortions on unwanted children, and psychological ramifications of alternatives to abortion. Summarizes student evaluations of the course. (CFR)
Descriptors: Abortions, Assignments, Classroom Techniques, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
The Personal Teaching Improvement Guides Program: A User's Manual [and] A Berkeley Personal Teaching Improvement Guide--Sample.
Wilson, Robert C. – 1987
These two documents present (1) a user's guide to the Personal Teaching Improvement Guides Program developed at the University of California, Berkeley and (2) a sample guide. The program uses results of student evaluations (keyed to 24 teaching practices) and descriptions of successful teaching practices to individualize instructional improvement…
Descriptors: Assignments, Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, Guidelines
A Semi-Painless Way To Improve Student Writing.
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Clanton, Gordon – Thought & Action, 1997
A college teacher describes his approach to student subject-area writing, which includes assignment of several short papers to be written according to carefully prescribed guidelines (appended to the article), clear grading criteria, high expectations, availability for individual conferences, rewards for improvement, encouragement of writing for…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Assignments, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques
The Craft of Teaching. A Guide to Mastering the Professor's Art.
Eble, Kenneth E. – 1976
College teaching, teaching skills, and practical problems are considered. The emphasis on subject matter specialization in graduate school and effects on the preparation of college teachers are considered, along with suggestions about what beginning college teachers need to know beyond subject matter training. After briefly considering assumptions…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Assignments, Beginning Teachers, Classroom Techniques
Teaching Guidebook: An Introduction to Some Basics.
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Blake, Veronica M.; Dinham, Sarah M. – 1988
A teaching guide designed for use by new university teaching assistants provides help in preparing for and carrying out instructional responsibilities. Separate chapters give guidance with: preparing the course description and syllabus, including writing objectives; selecting teaching strategies (lecture, discussion, and laboratory experience);…
Descriptors: Assignments, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Course Content