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45° Learning: A Guide to Organising Teaching Online in the COVID Pandemic, Including Peer Observation Revision
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Howarth, Mike – Work Based Learning e-Journal International, 2021
The paper suggests ways to benefit student learning online by improving staff training. The paper challenges the assumption that classroom based pedagogy applies to online teaching, with alternative ways that resolve the stress and confusion during the pandemic in the move to permanent blended teaching in the coming year. The paper is the 'front…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Faculty Development, Teaching Methods
The Chicago Handbook for Teachers: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom. Second Edition
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Brinkley, Alan; El-Fakahany, Esam; Dessants, Betty; Flamm, Michael; Forcey, Charles B., Jr.; Ouellett, Mathew L.; Rothschild, Eric – University of Chicago Press, 2011
Those who teach college students have extensive training in their disciplines, but unlike their counterparts at the high school or elementary school level, they often have surprisingly little instruction in the craft of teaching itself. "The Chicago Handbook for Teachers, Second Edition", is an extraordinarily helpful guide for anyone facing the…
Descriptors: Reference Materials, Adjunct Faculty, College Faculty, Higher Education
Early Development and the Brain: Teaching Resources for Educators
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Gilkerson, Linda, Ed.; Klein, Rebecca, Ed. – ZERO TO THREE, 2008
This nine-unit curriculum translates current scientific research on early brain development into practical suggestions to help early childhood professionals understand the reciprocal link between caregiving and brain development. The curriculum was created and extensively field-tested by the Erikson Institute Faculty Development Project on the…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Drug Use
Two Days on Explaining and Lecturing.
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Brown, G. A. – Studies in Higher Education, 1982
The development, evaluation and underlying rationale of a two-day course on explaining and lecturing is described. It is argued that since lecturing is the major method of teaching in universities it is important to help lecturers improve their technique and make them aware of their strengths and weaknesses. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation, Faculty Development, Higher Education
Improving Undergraduate Lectures: The Sender, the Message, and the Receiver.
Zolty, Thaddeus C. – Political Science Teacher, 1990
Offers suggestions for improving classroom lecturing in terms of the sender, the content, and the receiver. Provides guidelines for lecture preparation. Explores importance of format, delivery, and timing in presentations. Discusses value of assessing the lecturer and states good lectures attract students, while bad ones drive them away. (NL)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, College Students, Communication Skills, Competence
Can We Talk? Effective Lecturing in the Classroom: Instructional Strategies Series No. 9.
Kuzbik, John – 1992
The purpose of these documents is to provide educators in Saskatchewan with practical and relevant guides to teaching and learning as a means of expanding or refining teaching repertoires. The topic of this booklet is effective lecturing, described as a blend of three types of lectures: interactive (engaging student thinking throughout the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Conventional Instruction, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies