Teaching Nonmajors Advice for Liberal Arts Professors

Name: Teaching Nonmajors Advice for Liberal Arts Professors
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ISBN: 9780791474921

ISBN-10: 0791474925

ISBN-13: 9780791474921

Edition: 2008

Authors: P. Sven Arvidson

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Teaching Nonmajors focuses on what dedicated teachers want to know-how can I teach better in the classroom? Unlike most books on teaching, this book delivers uncomplicated and immediately useful techniques and strategies for teaching required courses to nonmajors. Providing practical examples and brief anecdotes drawn from a variety of disciplines in the liberal arts and sciences, the author describes simple ways to break up lectures, how to stimulate the best discussions, the art of assignments, how to improve student ratings, and successful strategies for engaging nonmajors and for handling problem students. Teaching Nonmajors is written especially for liberal arts college and university…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 7/3/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English



Preface


Give Better Lectures


Do What You Naturally Do Best-Passion Wins


Do the Unexpected


Know Your Stuff


Care for Question and Answer


Avoid Lecture Traps


Exploit Analogies and Diagrams


Give Students the Notes


The Challenge of PowerPoint


Briefly Debrief Yourself


Break Up Lectures


Use Relevant Class Discussion


Props


Songs


In-Class Reading and Writing


Visual Artwork


Films (Not Movies!)


Personal Experience


Comfort Breaks


The Best Discussions and Student Presentations


Arranging a Discussion


Discussion Goals


Discussion Structures


Debriefing


Student Presentations


The Art of Assignments


Assign Readings Smartly


Get Students to Read


Exams


Papers


Grading


Distinction and Continuity in Assignments


Sensible Policies


Think Deeply about a Good Syllabus


Attendance and Lateness


Communication


Plagiarism


Professor and Student Problems


Teaching Disinterested Students


The Aggressive Passive-Aggressive Student


The Interrupter


The Hijacker


The Painfully Shy Student


Special Needs Students Are Not Problem Students


Understand and Improve Student Ratings


Read and Understand the Form


Each Student Is a Voter


Interact with Student Ratings Criteria in Mind


Administer Student Ratings Appropriately


Use a Secondary Form


Ego Fluctuation, Knowing the Standard, and Online Ratings


Conclusion


Index