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Edwards, Helen, Ed.; Smith, Brenda, Ed.; Webb, Graham, Ed. – 2001
The essays in this collection explore how different lecturing situations can be handled and how lecturing confidence and techniques can be improved. The book covers a wide range of scenarios in these chapters: (1) "Learning from Objectives" (Stanley Yeo); (2) "New at This" (Sally Brown); (3) "The Smart Student" (Marilyn Baird); (4) "The Mobile…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Faculty, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Higher Education
Change Magazine, New Rochelle, NY. – 1978
Information on the responsibilities related to teaching undergraduate college students is provided in this handbook for teaching assistants (TA). Chapters cover: administrative details, such as ordering books, submitting time schedules, getting a classroom, and working with a professor; teaching, including guidelines for giving lectures, leading a…
Descriptors: Cheating, College Faculty, Course Evaluation, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Newble, David; Cannon, Robert – 1995
This volume offers practical suggestions to teachers on how to improve teaching methods at the higher education level. Suggestions span various types of teaching tasks and settings. Chapter 1 is on teaching in large groups and includes lecture preparation, what to do when things go wrong, evaluating a lecture, and related topics. Chapter 2…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Curriculum Design, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Assessment
Holcomb, J. David; Garner, Arthur E. – 1973
To help teachers in medical education improve their teaching skills, the book offers practical assistance and methods of improving the teaching-learning process. The first chapter, Behavioral Objectives and Improving Teaching, is devoted to the development and utilization of educational objectives and constitutes the first part of the book. Part 2…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Objectives, Evaluation Methods
Morgan, Barton; And Others – 1976
The adult education textbook is intended for persons preparing to teach adults as well as those already on the job. Following an introductory chapter, Chapter 2 is directed to the learning characteristics of adults. Chapter 3 focuses on steps of involving the potential participant in adult education programs, while Chapter 4 outlines various…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Adults, Audiovisual Aids
Keller, Clair W. – 1972
This book attempts to narrow the gap between the rhetoric of social studies reform and the realities of most classrooms. It focuses on strategies for engaging students in the learning process. Practical and workable guides are provided for improving classroom instruction with new techniques and materials for innovative strategies. Although the…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Change, Evaluation, History
Davidson, Cliff I.; Ambrose, Susan A. – 1994
This book is designed to help new faculty members in engineering and the sciences become effective teachers and researchers. Part 1 focuses on teaching, and includes six chapters which cover: characteristics of student learning, planning a course, conducting discussions and lectures, preparing examinations and assignments for students, and working…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, College Faculty, College Instruction, Course Organization
Lowman, Joseph – 1984
Elements of good teaching and ways to master effective teaching techniques are examined, drawing on direct observation, the literature, and student accounts of outstanding professors. A model of effective college teaching that includes nine styles of classroom instruction is proposed. The dramatic and interpersonal aspects of teaching and the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Course Content, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Lucas, Christopher J.; Murry, John W., Jr. – 2002
This book offers "survival" advice for faculty newcomers, organizing the discussion under the actual categories of work in which faculty typically engage. Chapter 1, "Institutional Environment and the Academic Community," examines the culture of an academic institution and how faculty newcomers become acculturated or socialized…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Active Learning, Beginning Teachers, College Faculty
Lowman, Joseph – 1995
This book examines elements of good college teaching and ways to master effective teaching techniques, drawing on direct observation, research on teaching and learning, and student accounts of outstanding professors. Chapter 1 reviews research on exemplary teaching and proposes a two-dimensional model of effective college teaching based on…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Course Content, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
London Univ. (England). Inst. of Education. – 1976
Intended for inexperienced teachers in higher education to be used in conjunction with a staff training program, information is presented on: teaching and learning principles; teaching methods; tutoring, counseling and student problems; student assessment; behavioral objectives; designing a course; and evaluation of teaching. Focus is on teaching…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Course Organization, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Counseling
Milton, Ohmer; And Others – 1978
Presented are written explanations and critical evaluations of the major teaching practices now being used in undergraduate education. Discussed are both traditional approaches to teaching (lecturing, testing, leading discussions) and new approaches (using a personalized system of instruction, teaching with computers, developing learning…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Instruction, Competency Based Education, Computer Assisted Instruction
Davis, Barbara Gross – 1993
This volume offers strategies and suggestions for college instructors at all levels in the form of 49 teaching tools (organized into 12 sections) that cover both traditional tasks--writing a course syllabus, delivering an effective lecture--and newer, broader concerns such as responding to diversity and using technology. Each tool includes a brief…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, College Instruction, Cooperative Learning
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
Westmeyer, Paul – 1988
An overview of the field of adult education is presented, and the nature of adult learners and eight basic instructional modes are discussed. The focus is skills that make people better teachers and the intended audience is college professors, continuing education instructors outside the formal education setting, and students of higher education.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Learning, College Instruction
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